Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
pipián
English translation:
cushaw
Added to glossary by
Mónica Belén Colacilli
Aug 14, 2004 23:20
20 yrs ago
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Spanish term
B.A. in Environmental Science
Native in: English 
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish
pipián
Spanish to English
Other
Cooking / Culinary
It's a vegetable (in El Salvador), but I'm not sure if it has a name in English. Any ideas?
Proposed translations
(English)
| 5 +2 | cushaw |
Mónica Belén Colacilli
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| 5 +2 | Mexican green spicy sauce with roasted pumpkin seeds |
Marcel Ventosa
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| 4 +1 | thick chili sauce |
Sandra Cifuentes Dowling
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| 3 +1 | squash |
Nanny Wintjens
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Proposed translations
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15 mins
Mónica Belén Colacilli
Argentina
Argentina
Native in Spanish
Argentina
20yrs exp. Specialized in Med/Pharma
Native in: Spanish (Variants: Latin American, Argentine) 
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, Spanish
Related KudoZ points
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8
Spanish term (edited):
pipi�n
Selected
cushaw
Common names. English: cushaw (United States); Spanish: calabaza, calabaza pinta, calabaza pipiana (Mexico), pipián (Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica), saquil, pipitoria (Guatemala)
Sorting Cucurbita names - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... ENGLISH : Cushaw. SPANISH : Calabaza pinta, Pipián (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico,
Nicaragua), Calabaza pipiana (Mexico), Pipitoria (Guatemala), Saquil. ...
gmr.landfood.unimelb.edu.au/ Plantnames/Sorting/Cucurbita.html - 82k
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Note added at 27 mins (2004-08-14 23:48:33 GMT)
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see also this chart http://www.fao.org/docrep/t0646e/T0646E05.htm
Sorting Cucurbita names - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... ENGLISH : Cushaw. SPANISH : Calabaza pinta, Pipián (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico,
Nicaragua), Calabaza pipiana (Mexico), Pipitoria (Guatemala), Saquil. ...
gmr.landfood.unimelb.edu.au/ Plantnames/Sorting/Cucurbita.html - 82k
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Note added at 27 mins (2004-08-14 23:48:33 GMT)
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see also this chart http://www.fao.org/docrep/t0646e/T0646E05.htm
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "This was what I was looking for. Thanks for all your help:)"
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2 mins
Sandra Cifuentes Dowling
Chile
Chile
Native in Spanish
Chile
Politics, Education 22 years exp
Native in: Spanish (Variants: Chilean, Latin American)
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish
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3
Spanish term (edited):
pipi�n
thick chili sauce
Well, not a vegetable actually.
Collins Dictionary.
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Note added at 10 mins (2004-08-14 23:31:17 GMT)
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PIPIÁN = Calabaza (C.Rica, El Salvador, Honduras y Nicaragua).
PUMPKIN = calabaza
Collins Dictionary.
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Note added at 10 mins (2004-08-14 23:31:17 GMT)
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PIPIÁN = Calabaza (C.Rica, El Salvador, Honduras y Nicaragua).
PUMPKIN = calabaza
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9 mins
Marcel Ventosa
Thailand
Thailand
Native in Spanish
&
English
Thailand
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Native in: Spanish , English
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, Thai to English, and 1 more.
Spanish term (edited):
pipi�n
Mexican green spicy sauce with roasted pumpkin seeds
Usually cooked for chicken or even sometimes duck.
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Note added at 10 mins (2004-08-14 23:31:29 GMT)
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OK, if you\'re not talking about a Mexican sauce, then it\'s not the same pipián.
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Note added at 10 mins (2004-08-14 23:31:29 GMT)
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OK, if you\'re not talking about a Mexican sauce, then it\'s not the same pipián.
Peer comment(s):
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Lorenia Rincon
: you have the right idea, but it is the sauce made with just the roasted pumpin seeds (not necessarily spicy)
3 mins
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Juan Jacob
: In Mexico, absolutely. This sauce is called "mole" (one of many of them), with chicken or turkey, never duck. Pipián is "pepitas", as you say, pumpkin seeds. Maybe it's the same in El Salvador.
54 mins
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Thanks!
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María T. Vargas
: I agree with Juan absolutely, (and it is delicious). Pampi
1 hr
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I agree...it is delicious...and I'm really missing it right now, living in Buenos Aires!
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skport
: the asker wanted to know the name of the actual vegetable, not the name of a sauce made with it. Although your answer sounds delicious, i do not think it answers the question.
13 hrs
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7 mins
Nanny Wintjens
Spain
Spain
Works in field
Spain
A life devoted to words and style
Native in: French
Works in: Dutch to French, English to French, Spanish to French, and 1 more.
Spanish term (edited):
pipi�n
squash
"***squash***1 / skwA:S / n
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4 [c u] (Bot, Culin) ***nombre genérico de varios tipos de calabaza, zapallo, cidra*** etc"
Source : Oxford Dictionary
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Note added at 13 mins (2004-08-14 23:34:16 GMT)
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See following link :
\"***Squash***
***Yellow Squash***
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Violales
Family: Cucurbitaceae
Genus: Cucurbita
Species
C. digitata
C. ficifolia
C. foetidissima
C. maxima - winter squash, pumpkin
C. mixta - pumpkin
C. moschata - crookneck squash
C. okeechobeensis
C. palmata
C. pepo
***Squashes*** are the fruit of vines of the genus ***Cucurbita***. Squashes are classified as summer squash or winter squash, depending on when they are harvested.
***Summer squashes*** (such as ***zucchini*** (also known as ***courgette***), pattypan and yellow crookneck) are harvested during the summer, while the skin is still tender and the fruit relatively small. They are consumed almost immediately and require little or no cooking.
***Winter squashes*** (such as ***hubbard, acorn or Cucurbita pepo, spaghetti and pumpkin***) are harvested at the end of summer, generally cured to further harden the skin, and stored in a cool place for eating later. They generally require longer cooking time than summer squashes.
Squash is native to North America and was one of the \"Three Sisters\" planted by Native Americans. The Three Sisters were the three main indigenous plants used for agriculture: maize (corn), beans, and squash. These were usually planted together, with the cornstalk providing support for the climbing beans, and shade for the squash. The squash vines provided groundcover to limit weeds.
Squash has historically been pollinated by the native squash bee Peponapis pruinosa, but this bee has declined, probably due to pesticide sensitivity, and most commercial plantings are pollinated by honeybees today. One hive per acre is recommended by the US Department of Agriculture. Gardeners with a shortage of bees often have to hand pollinate. Inadequately pollinated squash usually start growing but abort before full development. Often there is an opportunistic fungus that the gardener blames for the abortion, but the fix proves to be better pollination not fungicide.\"
http://www.webster-dictionary.org/definition/Squash (vegetab...
Longtitudinal section of female flower of squash (courgette) showing ovary, ovules, pistol and petals
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Note added at 15 mins (2004-08-14 23:36:47 GMT)
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See also :
\"A ***gourd*** is a ***hollow, dried shell of a fruit in the Cucurbitaceae family of plants***. Gourds can be used as a number of things, including bowls or bottles. Gourds are also used as resonating chambers on certain musical instruments including some stringed instruments and drums. Instruments of this type are common in Africa, South Asia, and the Caribbean. Gourds are also used as a tool for sipping yerba mate by means of a bombilla, in Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil, where it is called \"cuia\" (kOOya). Birdhouse gourds, (Lagenaria siceraria), are commonly used in southern USA for group housing for purple martins, which reputedly help control mosquitoes.\"
http://www.webster-dictionary.org/definition/gourd
...
4 [c u] (Bot, Culin) ***nombre genérico de varios tipos de calabaza, zapallo, cidra*** etc"
Source : Oxford Dictionary
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Note added at 13 mins (2004-08-14 23:34:16 GMT)
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See following link :
\"***Squash***
***Yellow Squash***
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Violales
Family: Cucurbitaceae
Genus: Cucurbita
Species
C. digitata
C. ficifolia
C. foetidissima
C. maxima - winter squash, pumpkin
C. mixta - pumpkin
C. moschata - crookneck squash
C. okeechobeensis
C. palmata
C. pepo
***Squashes*** are the fruit of vines of the genus ***Cucurbita***. Squashes are classified as summer squash or winter squash, depending on when they are harvested.
***Summer squashes*** (such as ***zucchini*** (also known as ***courgette***), pattypan and yellow crookneck) are harvested during the summer, while the skin is still tender and the fruit relatively small. They are consumed almost immediately and require little or no cooking.
***Winter squashes*** (such as ***hubbard, acorn or Cucurbita pepo, spaghetti and pumpkin***) are harvested at the end of summer, generally cured to further harden the skin, and stored in a cool place for eating later. They generally require longer cooking time than summer squashes.
Squash is native to North America and was one of the \"Three Sisters\" planted by Native Americans. The Three Sisters were the three main indigenous plants used for agriculture: maize (corn), beans, and squash. These were usually planted together, with the cornstalk providing support for the climbing beans, and shade for the squash. The squash vines provided groundcover to limit weeds.
Squash has historically been pollinated by the native squash bee Peponapis pruinosa, but this bee has declined, probably due to pesticide sensitivity, and most commercial plantings are pollinated by honeybees today. One hive per acre is recommended by the US Department of Agriculture. Gardeners with a shortage of bees often have to hand pollinate. Inadequately pollinated squash usually start growing but abort before full development. Often there is an opportunistic fungus that the gardener blames for the abortion, but the fix proves to be better pollination not fungicide.\"
http://www.webster-dictionary.org/definition/Squash (vegetab...
Longtitudinal section of female flower of squash (courgette) showing ovary, ovules, pistol and petals
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Note added at 15 mins (2004-08-14 23:36:47 GMT)
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See also :
\"A ***gourd*** is a ***hollow, dried shell of a fruit in the Cucurbitaceae family of plants***. Gourds can be used as a number of things, including bowls or bottles. Gourds are also used as resonating chambers on certain musical instruments including some stringed instruments and drums. Instruments of this type are common in Africa, South Asia, and the Caribbean. Gourds are also used as a tool for sipping yerba mate by means of a bombilla, in Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil, where it is called \"cuia\" (kOOya). Birdhouse gourds, (Lagenaria siceraria), are commonly used in southern USA for group housing for purple martins, which reputedly help control mosquitoes.\"
http://www.webster-dictionary.org/definition/gourd
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