Community

Your word isn't here yet

Join Hablaaa and add the expression no one else has documented.

/Sounds like "tah" (as in "tar") + "MAHL" (as in "mark")/

Meaning

Corn dough stuffed with fillings and wrapped in banana or corn leaves, found all across Latin America with a thousand variations. Every country swears theirs are the best.

Examples

My grandma's tamales are the best in the world.

In December you can't skip the tamales.

Regional synonyms

The TV or gaming console remote control in Spain, the most-searched-for item in every Spanish home. It always vanishes between the couch cushions right when you urgently need to change the channel. In Latin America people say "control remoto," but in Spain it is always just "el mando."