arepa

[ uh-rey-puh; Spanish ah-re-pah ]

noun
  1. a Columbian or Venezuelan cornmeal cake, sometimes stuffed with savory fillings.

Origin of arepa

1
First recorded in 1920–25; from Carib arepa, erepa “corn, cornmeal, cornmeal cake”

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