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Galician
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbuke/
- Rhymes: -uke
- Hyphenation: bu‧que
Noun
buque m (plural buques)
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Portuguese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Catalan buc.
Noun
buque m (plural buques)
- auxiliary boat for purse seines
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
buque
- inflection of bucar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from French buc (“trunk of the body”), from Old Frankish *būk (“belly, trunk, hull, torso”), from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, abdomen, trunk”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbuke/
- Rhymes: -uke
- Syllabification: bu‧que
Noun
buque m (plural buques)
- ship, vessel
1981, Gabriel García Márquez, Crónica de una muerte anunciada:El día en que lo iban a matar, Santiago Nasar se levantó a las 5.30 de la mañana para esperar el buque en que llegaba el obispo.- The day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at 5:30 in the morning to wait for the ship in which the bishop arrived.
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