Jambalaya

Definition: Jambalaya

Jambalaya

Noun

1. Spicy Creole dish of rice and ham, sausage, chicken, or shellfish with tomatoes, peppers, onions, and celery.

Date "jambalaya" was first used: 1872. (references)

Modern Usage: Jambalaya

Domain

Usage

Song Titles

Jambalaya (On Bayou) (performing artist: Hank Williams Sr.)

Jambalaya (performing artist: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)

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Specialty Definition: Jambalaya

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Jambalaya is a type of food or types of food common in Louisiana, especially in Cajun style of cooking. It is similar to a type of stew.

Ingredients include meat (the type of meat often gives the name to the type of Jambalaya, for example Chicken Jambalaya, Seafood Jambalaya etc). Vegestables (always including onion and tomato. This is cooked in a stock with rice. Cajun style usually uses a brown stock, New Orleans Creole style a red stock.

External link

http://www.gumbopages.com/food/jambalaya.html

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Jambalaya."

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Commercial Usage: Jambalaya

Domain	Title
Books	Cajun & Creole Cuisine: From Gumbo to Jambalaya - Vibrant Louisiana Food Made Deliciously Easy (Contemporary Kitchen) (reference) Jambalaya (reference) Jambalaya, Crawfish Pie, File Gumbo (reference) Southern Fried Sci-Fi And Jambalaya Genres (reference) The Kiss: A Jambalaya (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Jambalaya

"Jambalaya" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Jambalaya" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	50%	2	245,945
Noun (singular)	50%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	4	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Jambalaya

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
jambalaya	452	deity jambalaya	4
jambalaya recipe	228	jambalaya studio	4
jambalaya lyrics	24	jambalaya shoppe	4
jambalaya pot	16	jambalaya recipe seafood	4
shrimp jambalaya	16	jambalaya midi	4
chicken jambalaya	11	jambalaya on the bayou	4
jambalaya pasta	11	jambalaya vegetarian	4
seafood jambalaya	10	jambalaya receipes	4
shrimp jambalaya recipe	9	creole jambalaya recipe	3
crock jambalaya pot	7	jambalaya restaurant	3
chicken jambalaya recipe	7	jambalaya pontiac	3
jambalaya receipe	6	jambalaya mp3	3
jambalaya pasta recipe	6	cajun jambalaya recipe	3
jambalaya song	6	chicken jambalaya recipe sausage	3
jambalaya sausage shrimp	5	history of jambalaya	3
cajun jambalaya	5	picture of jambalaya	3
easy jambalaya	5	hank jambalaya mp3 williams	3
festival jambalaya	5	new orleans jambalaya	3
sausage jambalaya	5	crawfish jambalaya	3
hank jambalaya williams	5	crawfish jambalaya recipe	3
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Modern Translation: Jambalaya

Language		Translations for "jambalaya"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Farsi		اش شله قلمکار (Mishmash, Patchwork). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ジャンク債 (gendarme, jacket, jump, jumper, jumpsuit, jungle, jungle-gym, junk bonds, junket). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ジャンバライヤ . (various references)

Pig Latin		ambalayajay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Jambalaya

Language	Period	Translations
Proven�al	1000-Modern	jambalaia. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Jambalaya

Derivations
	Words beginning with "jambalaya": jambalayas. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Jambalaya" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Jabaliya, Jabaliyah, Jabalya, jambalya, jimbalaya, jumbalaya. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Jambalaya

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-b-j-l-m-y"
	-4 letters: balmy, lamby.
	-5 letters: ably, alba, alma, amyl, baal, balm, blam, jamb, lama, lamb, maya.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-a-b-j-l-m-y"
	+1 letter: jambalayas.
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