🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

empananada de sopa

Native Script:empanada de sopa

Pronunciation / Transliteration: empanada de sopa

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Soup dumpling/ˈsuːp ˈdʌm.plɪŋ/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #14500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Las empanadas de sopa son deliciosas pero muy calientes."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A type of Chinese steamed bun (xiaolongbao) filled with meat or seafood and a rich, hot broth.

    "We carefully dipped the hot soup dumpling into a saucer of black vinegar and ginger."
  2. 2

    Any variety of savory dumpling that encapsulates liquid broth within its dough wrapper during the cooking process.

    "The fusion restaurant introduced a modern take on the traditional soup dumpling with truffle broth."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term is a loan translation and culinary adaptation of the Chinese 'xiaolongbao' (小籠包), originating from the Jiangnan region of China during the late Qing dynasty. The English compound combines 'soup', derived from Old French and Germanic roots, with 'dumpling', a Germanic-origin term for a small mass of dough.

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