alfajor

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Spanish alfajor. === Pronunciation === === Noun === alfajor (plural alfajores or alfajors) A popular confection in South America usually made of flour, honey, and nuts and filled with a milk-based filling. Traditionally the filling was manjar blanco, but today it is typically dulce de leche. === Further reading === alfajor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia == Portuguese == === Etymology === Borrowed from Spanish alfajor. === Noun === alfajor m (plural alfajores) alfajor (a popular confection in South America usually filled with caramel-like dulce de leche) === Further reading === “alfajor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Spanish == === Alternative forms === alfaxor, alfaxur, faxor, alaxur, alexur, alejur (obsolete) === Etymology === Inherited from Old Spanish alfaxor, beginning as a more jammy food from Andalusian Arabic الْفَشُور (al-fašūr, “nectar, juice”), from Arabic أَفْشُرَج (ʔafšuraj, “juice”). Somewhere surely mixed up with alfaxú, alajú from حَشْو (ḥašw, “filling”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /alfaˈxoɾ/ [al.faˈxoɾ] Rhymes: -oɾ Syllabification: al‧fa‧jor === Noun === alfajor m (plural alfajores) (Spain) A popular confection in Andalusia usually made with honey, almonds, nuts, and spices such as clove and coriander. (Latin America) alfajor (a popular confection in South America usually filled with dulce de leche) === Further reading === “alfajor”, 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 alfajor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia alfajor (España) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es alfajor (Latinoamérica) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es