What does "manicotti" mean?

Wide tubes of pasta filled with a savoury stuffing and baked in the oven.

How do you pronounce "manicotti"?

Pronounced //ˌmænɪˈkɑti//.

Common synonyms include: baked pasta dish, manicotti bake, pasta tube, stuffed pasta, stuffed pasta bake, tubular pasta.

/ˌmænɪˈkɑti/ noun

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Noun

1
Wide tubes of pasta filled with a savoury stuffing and baked in the oven. plural, plural-only
2
large pasta tubes stuffed with chopped meat or mild cheese and baked in tomato sauce wordnet

From Italian manicotti (“muffs”), plural of manicotto (“muff”), from manica (“sleeve”) + -etto (“meliorative suffix”).