alambre

Borrowed from Spanish alambre (“wire”), possibly because the ingredients were originally cooked kebab-style, skewered on wires.

alambre (plural alambres)

1. A Mexican dish, consisting of meat (usually grilled beef) topped with cheese, salsa, and chopped bacon, onion, and pepper.
   • 2007, Roberto Santibañez, Rosa's New Mexican Table, Artisan Books, →ISBN, page 204:

     At Rosa Mexicano, alambres are removed from the skewers before they are brought to the table and served on rice that is flanked with Cooked Green Salsa (page 114) and a sauce similar to Roasted Tomatillo-Chipotle Sauce (page 201), [...]

• Marable, armable

Borrowed from Spanish alambre.

• Hyphenation: a‧lam‧bre
• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈlambɾe/, [ʔʌˈl̪am.bɾ̪ɪ]

alambre

1. wire

   Synonym: kawat

• alambreng tunokon (“barbed wire”)

• alambrilyo
• alambrero

From Spanish alambre.

alambre

1. wire

Borrowed from Arabic العَنْبَر‎ (al-ʕanbar).

• Hyphenation: a‧lam‧bre

alambre m (plural alambres)

1. amber (fossil resin)

   Synonym: âmbar

• arambre (obsolete)

From older arambre, from Old Spanish aramne (“bronze”), from Vulgar Latin *aramen, araminem, from Late Latin aerāmen, aerāminis (“copper, bronze”), from Latin aes, from Proto-Italic *aos, early *ajos, from Proto-Indo-European *áyos, h₂éyos.

• IPA^(key): /aˈlambɾe/ [aˈlãm.bɾe]

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• Rhymes: -ambɾe
• Syllabification: a‧lam‧bre

alambre m (plural alambres)

1. wire (metal formed into a long, narrow thread)
2. wire (a thread of metal)
3. alambre (Mexican food dish consisting of meat topped with cheese, salsa, and chopped bacon, pepper and onion)

• Chavacano: alambre
• → Cebuano: alambre
• → Chamorro: alåmle
• → English: alambre
• → Tagalog: alambre

alambre

1. inflection of alambrar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “alambre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from Spanish alambre.

• Hyphenation: a‧lam‧bre
• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈlambɾe/, [ʔɐˈlam.bɾɛ]

alambre (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜋ᜔ᜊ᜔ᜇᜒ)

1. wire

   Synonym: kawad

• alambreng may-tinik

• alambrera

• “alambre” in Pinoy Dictionary, Cyberspace.ph, 2010-2023.
• “alambre”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018