sopaipilla

English

A plate of Chilean sopaipillas topped with a sugar syrup, honey, and spices

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish sopaipilla.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːə

Noun

sopaipilla (countable and uncountable, plural sopaipillas)

1. A small, crisp, puffy, deep-fried pastry often served with honey.

   Synonym: sopaipa

   • 2020, Marjorie Agosín, translated by Alison Ridley, “Changes Afoot”, in The Maps of Memory: Return to Butterfly Hill (The Butterfly Hill Series; 2), New York, N.Y.: Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, published September 2021, →ISBN, part 1 (The Esmeralda Returns), page 41:

     Between bites of sopaipilla, I ask why so many restaurants in Valparaíso are serving American-style food.

Further reading

• sopaipilla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Spanish

Etymology

From sopaipa +‎ -illa (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sopaiˈpiʝa/ [so.pai̯ˈpi.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /sopaiˈpiʝa/ [so.pai̯ˈpi.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /sopaiˈpiʎa/ [so.pai̯ˈpi.ʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /sopaiˈpiʃa/ [so.pai̯ˈpi.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /sopaiˈpiʒa/ [so.pai̯ˈpi.ʒa]

 

• Rhymes: -iʝa

• Rhymes: -iʝa
• Rhymes: -iʎa
• Rhymes: -iʃa
• Rhymes: -iʒa

• Syllabification: so‧pai‧pi‧lla

Noun

sopaipilla f (plural sopaipillas)

1. sopaipilla

Further reading

• “sopaipilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10