chilhuac. | Nahuatl Dictionary

chilhuac.

Headword:

chilhuac.

Principal English Translation:

a dried, smoked chili pepper (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

chīlhuāc, chilhuactli, chiluactli

IPAspelling:

tʃiːlwɑːk

Frances Karttunen:

CHĪLHUĀC dried, smoked chili pepper / chilpocle (Z) [(1)Zp.152]. M has chiluacmulli ‘sauce or stew seasoned with smoked chilies.’ See CHĪL-LI, HUĀQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 51.

Attestations from sources in English:

chiluactli = a wide dried chile pepper (Tlaxcala, 1545)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 34, 210–211.

themes:

Food, Eating, Cooking