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quesadilla

/ˌkeɪ̯səˈdiː(l)jə/US/ˌkeɪ̯səˈdijə/

quesadilla noun: a Mexican dish made by filling a tortilla with cheese and sometimes other ingredients and then cooking it until the cheese is melted.

quesadilla: a Mexican dish made by filling a tortilla with cheese and sometimes other ingredients and then...
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Noun

quesadilla (plural quesadillas)

  1. A Mexican dish made by filling a tortilla with cheese and sometimes other ingredients and then cooking it until the cheese is melted.
  2. A Salvadoran pan dulce made with rice flour and queso duro blanco and topped with sesame seeds.
    • In the Salvadoran bakery, the quesadilla is king, whether cut into squares from a cake tray or baked into discus-sized round coffee cakes.2015 December 3, Bill Esparza, “For National Pastry Day, Consider El Salvador’s Sweet Quesadilla”, in Los Angeles Magazine, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2025

quesadilla meaning in Tamil

quesadilla in Tamil

பாலடை உறை

Forms of quesadilla

pluralquesadillas

Origin of quesadilla

Borrowed from Spanish quesadilla. [Alt: Slices of a quesadilla piled on top of one another]

Phrases with quesadilla

Words that rhyme with quesadilla

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Questions about quesadilla

What does quesadilla mean?
Quesadilla means a Mexican dish made by filling a tortilla with cheese and sometimes other ingredients and then cooking it until the cheese is melted.
What is quesadilla in Tamil?
Quesadilla in Tamil is பாலடை உறை. See Quesadilla meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is quesadilla?
Quesadilla is a noun.
How do you pronounce quesadilla?
Quesadilla is pronounced /ˌkeɪ̯səˈdiː(l)jə/ (UK).
What is the plural of quesadilla?
The plural of quesadilla is quesadillas.

Words near quesadilla in the dictionary

  1. ques.
  2. quesabirria
  3. quesabirrias
  4. Quesada
  5. Quesadas
  6. quesadilla
  7. quesadillas
  8. quesal
  9. quesalada
  10. quesaladas
  11. quesals

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quesadilla (page history and authors); quesadilla (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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