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vatapá

vatapá noun: an Afro-Brazilian dish made with bread, shrimp, coconut milk, peanuts and palm oil mashed into a creamy paste.

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Noun

vatapá (plural vatapás)

  1. An Afro-Brazilian dish made with bread, shrimp, coconut milk, peanuts and palm oil mashed into a creamy paste.
    • Overstuffed, inevitably, with vatapá, a creamy paste flavored with seafood and nuts; caruru de quiabo, an onion-and-ginger-laced okra gumbo; and bacalao salad. It’s a taste of Brazilian summer, down to the last licked finger.2011 January 11, Dave Cook, “Point Brazil”, in The New York Times

Forms of vatapá

pluralvatapás

Origin of vatapá

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese vatapá, from Yoruba ẹ̀bà Tápà (“pirão thickened in the style of the Nupe people”).

Questions about vatapá

What does vatapá mean?
Vatapá means an Afro-Brazilian dish made with bread, shrimp, coconut milk, peanuts and palm oil mashed into a creamy paste.
What part of speech is vatapá?
Vatapá is a noun.
What is the plural of vatapá?
The plural of vatapá is vatapás.

Words near vatapá in the dictionary

  1. Vatakara
  2. vatakkiruttal
  3. vatalanib
  4. vataman
  5. vatamans
  6. vatapá
  7. vatapás
  8. Vater
  9. Vater-Pacini corpuscle
  10. Vater-Pacini corpuscles
  11. vaterite

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