pulque
English edit
Etymology edit
From Mexican Spanish pulque, possibly from Nahuatl.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pulque (countable and uncountable, plural pulques)
- A milk-colored, somewhat viscous Mexican alcoholic drink made from the fermented sap of certain agave plants.
- 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 6, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 4:
- You went by the sour stink of pulque saloons; they gave you a water glass of cactus juice in there, two cents.
Translations edit
Mexican alcoholic drink
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French edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
pulque m (plural pulques)
Further reading edit
- “pulque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain. The Classical Nahuatl term for pulque was octli, or specifically iztac octli (“white pulque”). Pulque may be a Spanish derivation of Classical Nahuatl poliuhqui octli (literally “spoiled pulque, spoiled wine”), from poliuhqui (“something lost”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pulque m (plural pulques)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → English: pulque
Further reading edit
- “pulque”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014