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/Sounds like "tah" (as in "tar") + "tah" (as in "tar") + "KWAH" (as in "quack")/

Meaning

A traditional clay or earth oven from Paraguay, built by hand and heated with wood, a living legacy of indigenous and colonial cooking. The tatakuá gives bread and meats a smoky, irreplaceable flavor.

Examples

Grandma baked the chipa in the clay oven early this morning.

Nothing compares to bread fresh out of a tatakuá.

Regional synonyms

In Argentina and Uruguay, to bother, mess with, or seriously inconvenience someone, with or without bad intentions. Embromar covers everything from a prank that went too far to a genuinely harmful action that complicated someone's life. Context tells you how serious it is.