sobrassada

English

Alternative forms

• sobrasada

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan sobrassada, from Italian soprassata.

Noun

sobrassada (countable and uncountable, plural sobrassadas)

1. A spiced, cured pork sausage from the Balearic Islands.

   Coordinate term: soppressata

   • 2012, Seamus Mullen, Seamus Mullen's Hero Food, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 108:

     I love the rich flavor of the duck eggs with the spicy sobrassada and sweetness of quince paste.

   • 2015 April 17, Lisa Abend, “Sweet and Salty: Majorca’s Traditional Cuisine”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     He squeezed oranges for juice to go with the botifarra, a pork sausage spiced with cloves and cumin, and the spreadable sobrassada, tinted red from Majorcan paprika.

Further reading

• sobrassada on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• sobrasadas

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian soprassata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [su.βɾəˈsa.ðə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [so.bɾəˈsa.ðə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [so.bɾaˈsa.ða]

• Audio (Valencia):

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Noun

sobrassada f (plural sobrassades)

1. sobrassada (a type of sausage from the Balearic Islands)

Further reading

• “sobrassada” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sobrassada”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “sobrassada” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sobrassada” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.