When I return from holiday I often have the advertising flyer, the business card or the menu of the day from a restaurant. I now have so much paper that I have to select some to discard. But before I do so, I try to translate the Spanish or French or Italian or Portuguese. Some words I recognize because they are similar to English, others I know, and a few have to be translated and added to an alphabetical list like the one below which I am sharing with you.
Spanish Hotel Menus
adobado - pickled
ajo - garlic
anguila - eel
agua - water
arroz - rice
calamares - squid
caldo - broth / soup
cálida/o - warm
caliente - hot
cerdo - pig
charasko - steak
chuleta - chop
churrasco - steak (churrasco de ternera - beef steak)
combinados - combinations
con - with
croquetas - croquettes
del - of the
empanada - pie
ensalada - salad
entremeses - appetisers
espanola (note sign over the n) - Spanish (style of cooking)
especial - special
filete - fillet / steak
frita - fried
galeras -
gallego - Galician (in Spanish and Italian you do not have capital letters at the start of a country or country style
hamburguesas - burgers
huevos - eggs
lomo - back
lubina - sea bass
marisco - seafood
menu - menu
merluza - hake
Meso
meson (accent on the on for emphasis) - house (like the French word maison)
mixta - mixed
o - or
pan - bread
parillada - barbecue
pasteles - pastries / cakes
patatas - potatoes
pechuga - poultry breast
plancha - griddle, iron, plate
plato - plate or dish
platos - plates / dishes
pollo - chicken
postre - dessert
Primer - first / starter
pudin - pudding
quesadilla - tortilla (omelette or wrap) covered in cheese
queso - cheese
rusa - Russian
Segundo - second
spaguetis - spagetthi
tartas - tarts
ternera - veal / beef
tomate - tomatoes
tortilla - thin omelette containing slided potatoes and onions cooked in olive oil
ternera - veal
variados - varied
vino - wine
y - and
Addresses, Directions, Maps
avda - short for avenida or avenue
avenida - avenue
C abbreviation for carreta
carretas
catedral - cathedral
de la - of the
hospedaje - accommodation
peregrino - pilgrim
pza - short form
Santiago - Saint James
telf - tel / telephone
tenemos - we have
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