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chiltemollo.

Headword:

chiltemollo.

Principal English Translation:

soup or stew seasoned with chili peppers (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

chīltemōlloh

IPAspelling:

tʃiːltemoːlloh

Frances Karttunen:

CHĪLTEMŌLLOH soup or stew seasoned with chili peppers / temolote (Z) [(2)Zp.120,152]. The more usual Spanish form of this is temolote. See CHĪL-LI, TLEMŌL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 52.

Attestations from sources in English:

This is called a molcajete, a temolote, or a muñón in contemporary Spanish.
See the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, see https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/chiltemolotl/181761 and https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/chiltemollo/24967