sarsa
sársa with stress marks
sauce
Usage Note
Sarsa, from the Spanish 'salsa', is the general Tagalog word for sauce or gravy. It is used across many Filipino dishes — from the tomato sarsa on meat to the sweet-sour sarsa of Filipino sweet-and-sour dishes. As a verb, magsarsa means to add or make a sauce. It reflects the widespread Spanish culinary influence on Filipino cooking.
Examples
" Lagyan mo ng sarsa. "
Natural Translation
Put some sauce on it.
Literal Translation
Put you of sauce.
" Masarap ang sarsa. "
Natural Translation
The sauce is delicious.
Literal Translation
Delicious the sauce.
" Ang sikreto ng lutong ito ay ang sarsa na inihanda ng lola gamit ang kamatis at bawang mula sa kanilang hardin. "
Natural Translation
The secret of this dish is the sauce that grandma prepared using tomatoes and garlic from their garden.
Literal Translation
The secret of cooking this is the sauce that prepared of grandmother using the tomato and garlic from their garden.
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