botana

See also: Botana

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish botana.

Noun

botana (plural botanas)

1. A Mexican appetiser.
   • 1988 June 3, Lawrence Rand, “Restaurant Tours: 21 years in a Mexican standby”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1], archived from the original on 24 October 2020:

     The guacamole and queso fundido (melted cheese with a slathering of chorizo sausage on top, spooned onto sections of flour tortilla) are excellent, and two botanas (assortments) offer items like chalupas (small crisp tortillas) not always found on Chicago menus.

Anagrams

• abaton

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

French bottebor.

Spanish bota

Spanish -ana

Spanish botana

From bota (“wineskin”) + -ana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boˈtana/ [boˈt̪a.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: bo‧ta‧na

Noun

botana f (plural botanas)

1. (Mexico) appetizer

   Synonym: antojito

2. snack

Descendants

• → English: botana

Further reading

• “botana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025