moquém
Portuguese
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Etymology
editBorrowed from Old Tupi moka'ẽ (“wooden grill”).[1] Compare English buccan, French boucan.
Pronunciation
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- (Brazil) Rhymes: -ẽj̃
- Hyphenation: mo‧quém
Noun
editmoquém m (plural moquéns)
- (Brazil) buccan (a handmade grill made with sticks, of Tupian origin)
- (Brazil) buccan (the meat prepared in such grill)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “moka'ẽ”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 294, columns 1–2
- “moquém”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “moquém”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “moquém”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “moquém”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
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- Portuguese terms borrowed from Old Tupi
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