botifarra
English
Alternative forms
Noun
botifarra (plural botifarras)
- A spiced pork sausage typical of Catalan cuisine.
- 2015 April 17, Lisa Abend, “Sweet and Salty: Majorca’s Traditional Cuisine”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- He squeezed oranges for juice to go with the botifarra, a pork sausage spiced with cloves and cumin, and the spreadable sobrassada, tinted red from Majorcan paprika.
Catalan

botifarra blanca
Etymology
From Late Latin buttis (“cask, wineskin”).
Pronunciation
Noun
botifarra f (plural botifarres)
- botifarra (spiced sausage)
- (uncountable, card games) a Catalan card game
- a Catalan hand gesture indicating disapproval
Derived terms
- botifarró
Descendants
- → Spanish: butifarra
Further reading
- “botifarra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “botifarra”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “botifarra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “botifarra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
botifarra on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ca
botifarra (card game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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