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ajonjolí.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
ajonjolí.
Principal English Translation: 

a sesame dish

Attestations from sources in English: 

Ne aholin tlahuel cococ; hueliz quitlalhuilqueh miac chilli (Sullivan et al. 2016: 15). = That sesame dish is very spicy; perhaps they added a lot of chile to it. [vocabulary (TCV); time range; 2016]
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl, eds. Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, and John Sullivan, Trends in Linguistics Documentation 35 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 68.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking