humita

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humita

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Borrowed from Spanish humita, from Quechua humint'a.

noun humitas

A traditional food of South America, consisting of masa harina dough and corn slowly cooked in oil. The Ecuadorean offerings are the best, particularly the humitas, steamed cornhusk tamales stuffed with a moist and fresh filling of sweet corn.

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@misc{humita_2026,
  title = {humita},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/humita},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}