charque
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish charqui, from Quechua ch'arki.[1][2]
Pronunciation edit
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃaɾ.kɨ]
- Hyphenation: char‧que
Noun edit
charque m (plural charques)
- (Brazil) jerky (lean meat cured and preserved by cutting into thin strips and air-drying in the sun)
Descendants edit
- → Hunsrik: Scharke
References edit
- ^ “charque” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- ^ “charque” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish edit
Noun edit
charque m (plural charques)
- Alternative form of charqui
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “charque”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014