Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A saffron-flavored Spanish dish made with varying combinations of rice, vegetables, meat, chicken, and seafood.
Wiktionary
- n. A savory Valencian dish made of rice, cooked on a frying pan with vegetables and meat or shellfish.
WordNet 3.0
- n. saffron-flavored dish made of rice with shellfish and chicken
Etymologies
- Borrowing from Catalan paella ("pot; pan"). (Wiktionary)
- Catalan, frying pan, paella, from Old French paelle, frying pan, pot, from Latin patella, diminutive of patina, pan; see paten. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The excellent paella is cooked and served in a deep pot; the mariscada with green sauce is mixed with olive oil, parsley, garlic and onions, while the red snapper is roasted with shrimp and green pepper.”
“Spanish chef Jos é Andr é s uses it in paella and garbanzo stews.”
“Valencian paella is perhaps one of the most controversial courses made in Spain.”
“If you are an excellent chef, that paella is almost ready: simply take it out of the range and cover it for a couple minutes to concentrate the rosemary scent and maybe soften those last rebel rice grains.”
“Indeed, the lemma paella has become so deeply entrenched in our everyday parlance that it has lost its connection to the etymon patina (patena) and later patella, meaning”
“The name paella derives from the pan, called paellera, and does not refer to any ingredient.”
“I cringe when I hear people pronounce the word paella with an 'l' sound, like this, and not with the 'y' sound that it carries in Spanish, like this.”
“I cringe when I hear people pronounce the word paella like this, and not with the 'y' sound that it carries in Spanish, like this.?”
“That’s like getting paella from a cart … O wait, they have that too.”
“THE BILL Prices are quite affordable, starting at $12.95 for several of the entrees and going up to $24.95 for the paella, which is big enough for two.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘paella’.
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Open List: Rice Is Nice!
Everything rice. There are many styles of sushi listed here. For convention's sake, I list them in lower case letters and without a hyphen (inarizushi rather than Inari-zushi).
Rice v...Carnaroli, ricer, wild rice, risotto, sushi, arborio, basmati, superfino, amylose, beri-beri, Carolina rice, Indo-Chinese rice and 155 more...
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Realia from Everywhere
Culturally defined terms and expressions from the four corners of the world
fjord, mistral steppe, tornado, tsunami, polder, kiwi, koala, sequoia, Abominable Snowman, paprika, spaghetti, empanada and 299 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Words that have "ae" or "oe"
Add any words you know that have these letter combinations!
acoelous, cacoethes, aeschylean, aborvitae, phaeochrous, aeneous, algae, aesthetic, aerobics, daedal, vitae, minutiae and 53 more...
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spread out, spacious words of spe
words pertaining to the root spe- (hope) with some allegorical liberties.
paten, pan, pass, patent, petal, expand, repand, passacaglia, passe, paseo, paella, spawn and 150 more...
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spoon
being items relating to food, cooking and the kitchen.
spoon, fork, beef, slice, dozen, eggs, simmer, broil, salad, soup, stock, lard and 287 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Interesting Foods
smelt, sprat, caviar, sushi, papadum, garlic naan, injera, doro wat, miso, pho, edamame, tataki and 170 more...
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Into the mix
A medley of mixtures, mostly ones where the constituents are still distinct. I tagged kinds of stew.
mixture, commixture, admixture, intermixture, intermingling, commingling, mingling, marriage, union, integration, syncretion, permutation and 129 more...
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Food and Cooking
lasagna, vindaloo, lemon grass, nutmeg, origano, basil, risotto, fenugreek, saffron, arborio rice, basmati rice, paella and 14 more...
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foodie list
pan, gourmet, mincing, clam, oyster, geoduck, scallop, meringue, baste, garam masala, rarebit, phyllo and 66 more...
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Food and Drink
Words I like about food and drink. I like not only the word in some of them.
Palabras que me gustan sobre comida y bebida. También me gustan algunas de las cosas que denominan esas palabras.gazpacho, zarangollo, calimocho, gin-tonic, cubalibre, caipirinha, carajillo, paella, tortilla, jamón, sangría, cucurucho and 19 more...
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Neumann
war, polite, farmer, gear, icy, human, stupid, doom, shadow, kingdom, paella, bird and 7 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for paella.
frangarnes plato de arroz seco, con carne, pescado, mariscos, legumbres, etc., característico de la región valenciana, en España Oct 20, 2007