churro

English

churros with chocolate

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish churro.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃʊɹ.oʊ/, /ˈt͡ʃɜɹ.oʊ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃʊɹ.əʊ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

Noun

churro (plural churros)

1. A fried pastry from Spain, typically eaten as a dessert and with chocolate beverage.

Translations

fried pastry

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can

  Hijazi Arabic: تشورو m (tšūru, tšūrru)

• Asturian: churru (ast) m
• Basque: txurro
• Bulgarian: чуро m (čuro)
• Catalan: xurro (ca) m
• Cebuano: tsuro
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西班牙油條 / 西班牙油条 (Xībānyá yóutiáo), 西班牙遊得志 / 西班牙游得志 (Xībānyá yóudézhì), 西班牙式炸小油條 / 西班牙式炸小油条 (Xībānyá shìzhà xiǎoyóutiáo), 巧羅絲 / 巧罗丝 (qiǎoluósī), 吉拿棒 (jínábàng), 裘若 (qiúruò)

• Esperanto: fritkuko, benjeto, pastoklabeto, cilindrobenjeto
• Estonian: churro (et)
• Finnish: churro (fi)
• French: chichi (fr) m, churro (fr) m
• Galician: churro (gl) m
• German: Churro m
• Greek: τσούρο n (tsoúro)

  Ancient: (similar recipe) ἔγχυτος m (énkhutos)

• Hebrew: צ׳ורוס m
• Italian: churro m
• Indonesian: curo, cakwe spanyol (literally “Spanish youtiao”)
• Japanese: チュロ (churo), チュロス (ja) (churosu)
• Korean: 추로 (ko) (churo), 추로스 (churoseu)
• Latin: (similar recipe) encytus m
• Malagasy: curo (mg)
• Persian: چورو (fa) (čuro)
• Portuguese: churro (pt) m
• Russian: чу́рро m (čúrro)
• Spanish: churro (es) m
• Swedish: churro (sv) c, churros (sv) c
• Thai: ชูร์โร (chuu roo)
• Ukrainian: чу́ро m (čúro)

Further reading

• churro on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish churro.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.ʁu/ [ˈʃu.hu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.ʁu/ [ˈʃu.hu]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.ʁu/ [ˈʃu.χu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.ʁo/ [ˈʃu.ho]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.ʁu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.ʁu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃu.ʁu/

• Rhymes: -uʁu
• Hyphenation: chur‧ro

Noun

churro m (plural churros)

1. churro (type of fried pastry)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃuro/ [ˈt͡ʃu.ro]

• Audio (Spain):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uro
• Syllabification: chu‧rro

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic of the sound of something frying.

Noun

churro m (plural churros)

1. churro (type of fried pastry)

   Synonyms: cohombro, taco, (Seville, Huelva) calentito, (Jaén) tallo, (Granada, Málaga, Cádiz, Badajoz) tejeringo, (Córdoba) jeringo, (Madrid) porra

2. (colloquial) joint (marijuana cigarette)

   Synonyms: canuto, porro

3. (colloquial) botch, mess, disaster

   Synonyms: chafa, chapuza, pifia

Derived terms

• churrascar
• churrasco
• churrera
• churrería
• churrero
• churrito
• cortachurros
• irse a freír churros
• mezclar churras y merinas
• vender como churros

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: xurro
• → English: churro
• → Portuguese: churro

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

churro (feminine churra, masculine plural churros, feminine plural churras)

1. (colloquial, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, of a person) attractive

Noun

churro m (plural churros)

1. (colloquial, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia) spunk, Adonis, beefcake (physically desirable man)

   Synonyms: guapo, guaperas, guapetón, mino

Further reading

• “churro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10