Ball of minced meat and bound with egg, breadcrumbs, spices, and then cooked. Spanish borrows this word from Arabic 1575; 1604; 1576; 1606; 1583; 1602; 1577; ( to the bunduca "the hazelnut") that was used to name any ball, pellet, walnut, piece of round and small shape. But the origin is in the Greek 960; 959; 957; 964; 953; 954; 959; 957; (pontikón "pontic, Ponto") by the "pontic nuts" that at some point passed into Arabic and became associated with its form. See almondiga, alhóndiga .