couscous

English

Couscous.

Alternative forms

• cuscus, kuskus (dated)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkʊs.kʊs/, /ˈkuːs.kuːs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkus.kus/

Etymology

First attested circa 16th century, borrowed from French couscous, from Arabic كُسْكُس‎ (kuskus) from Northern Saharan Berber seksu.

Noun

couscous (countable and uncountable, plural couscouses)

1. A pasta of North African origin made of crushed and steamed semolina.
   • 2012, Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight, →ISBN:

     Karou took the plate of couscous and vegetables.

Quotations

For more quotations using this term, see Citations:couscous.

Derived terms

• couscoussier

Translations

pasta of North African origin

• Arabic: كُسْكُس‎ m (kuskus)

  Moroccan Arabic: كسكسو‎ m (ksaksu), سكسو‎ m (saksu), طعام‎ m (ṭʕām)

• Catalan: cuscús m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蒸粗麥粉 (zh), 蒸粗麦粉 (zh) (zhēngcūmàifěn), 古斯米 (gǔsīmǐ), 中東米, 中东米 (zhōngdōngmǐ)

• Czech: kuskus (cs) m
• Dutch: couscous (nl) f
• Esperanto: semolo, kuskuso, semolino
• Finnish: kuskus (fi)
• French: couscous (fr)
• Galician: cuscús (gl) m
• German: Couscous (de) m or n, Kuskus (de) m or n, Kuskusu m or n
• Hausa: kuskùs m
• Hebrew: כּוּסְכּוּס‎ m (kus'kús)
• Hungarian: kuszkusz (hu)

• Icelandic: kúskús (is) n
• Irish: cúscús m
• Japanese: クスクス (kusukusu)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Maltese: kuskus
• Persian: کوسکوس‎ (kuskus)
• Polish: kuskus (pl) m
• Portuguese: cuscuz (pt) m
• Romanian: cușcuș (ro) n
• Russian: куску́с (ru) m (kuskús)
• Spanish: cuscús (es) m
• Tachawit: aberbuc (shy)
• Turkish: kuskus (tr)
• Walloon: couscousse (wa) m
• Welsh: cwscws m
• Wolof: cere (wo)

Further reading

• couscous on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French couscous, from Arabic كُسْكُس‎ (kuskus), from Northern Saharan Berber seksu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kusˈkus/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: cous‧cous
• Rhymes: -us

Noun

couscous m (uncountable)

1. couscous

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuskus/, [ˈkus̠kus̠]

Noun

couscous

1. Alternative form of kuskus

Declension

Inflection of couscous (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		couscous	couscousit
genitive		couscousin	couscousien
partitive		couscousia	couscouseja
illative		couscousiin	couscouseihin
		singular	plural
nominative		couscous	couscousit
accusative	nom.	couscous	couscousit
	gen.	couscousin
genitive		couscousin	couscousien
partitive		couscousia	couscouseja
inessive		couscousissa	couscouseissa
elative		couscousista	couscouseista
illative		couscousiin	couscouseihin
adessive		couscousilla	couscouseilla
ablative		couscousilta	couscouseilta
allative		couscousille	couscouseille
essive		couscousina	couscouseina
translative		couscousiksi	couscouseiksi
instructive		—	couscousein
abessive		couscousitta	couscouseitta
comitative		—	couscouseineen

Possessive forms of couscous (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	couscousini	couscousimme
2nd person	couscousisi	couscousinne
3rd person	couscousinsa

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French

Alternative forms

• cous-cous (superseded spelling)
• couscoussou
• kesksou

Etymology

From Arabic كُسْكُس‎ (kuskus), from Northern Saharan Berber seksu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kus.kus/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -us

Noun

couscous m (plural couscous)

1. couscous

Derived terms

• couscousserie
• couscoussier
• couscoussière

Descendants

• → Dutch: couscous
• → English: couscous

Further reading

• “couscous” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).