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naporitan

naporitan noun: a Japanese dish styled on Neapolitan food; spaghetti topped with ketchup or tomato sauce, onion, button mushrooms, green peppers, bacon and Tabasco sauce.

naporitan: a Japanese dish styled on Neapolitan food; spaghetti topped with ketchup or tomato sauce, onion,...
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Noun

naporitan (uncountable)

  1. A Japanese dish styled on Neapolitan food; spaghetti topped with ketchup or tomato sauce, onion, button mushrooms, green peppers, bacon and Tabasco sauce.

Forms of naporitan

alternative formnapolitan

Origin of naporitan

Borrowed from Japanese ナポリタン (naporitan), from French napolitain (“Neapolitan”), from Latin neāpolītānus, from Neāpolis (“Naples”), from Ancient Greek Νεᾱ́πολῐς (Neā́polĭs). Doublet of Neapolitan.

Questions about naporitan

What does naporitan mean?
Naporitan means a Japanese dish styled on Neapolitan food; spaghetti topped with ketchup or tomato sauce, onion, button mushrooms, green peppers, bacon and Tabasco sauce.
What part of speech is naporitan?
Naporitan is a noun.

Words near naporitan in the dictionary

  1. Napoléonists
  2. napoo
  3. napooed
  4. napooing
  5. napoos
  6. naporitan
  7. Napp
  8. nappa
  9. nappa leather
  10. nappa leathers
  11. nappe

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