chaouch

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French

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃa.uʃ/
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  • Rhymes: -uʃ
  • Hyphenation: cha‧ouch

Noun

chaouch m (plural chaouchs or chaouches)

  1. (historical) chiaus
    • 1990, Jean Bérenger, Histoire de l'empire des Habsbourg 1273-1918, Paris: Fayard, →ISBN, page 164:
      en présence d’un chaouch, envoyé extraordinaire du Grand Turc.
      in the presence of a chauouch, an Envoy Extraordinaire of the Great Turk
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  2. (Morocco) a service industry worker
    • 2014 January 30, Lu 974 fois (pseud.), “Télégramme”, in L'Opinion‎, Rabat: L'Opinion, archived from the original on 2015-04-25:
      Du chaouch qui ne chasse plus les mouches, depuis qu’il navigue sur son smartphone, aux chefs de service qui ne trouvent pas que c’est un vice que de se sucrer avec l’argent du citoyen qui a les moyens de se payer la rachoua, […]
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Proper noun

chaouch m (uncountable)

  1. (agriculture) Alternative letter-case form of Chaouch (“a cultivar of vinifera grape”)
    • 2012, Alain Reynier, Manuel de viticulture, 11th edition, Paris: Lavoisier, →ISBN, page 140:
      L’allogamie est obligatoire chez les cépages femelles (ohanes, madeleine angevine, chaouch, olivette blanche) qui doivent vivre à proximité des cépages portant des étamines, de préférence hermaphrodites;
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References

  • “chiaoux” in the Dictionnaires d’autrefois
  • “chaouch” in the Dictionnaires d’autrefois
  • “chaouch”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
  • "chaouch" in Ambroise Queffélec, Yacine Derradji, Valéry Debov, Dalila Smaali-Dekdouk, Yasmina Cherrad-Benchefra, Le français en Algérie, Lexique et dynamique des langues, Bruxelles: Duculot, 2002, p. 234. →ISBN.
  • "chaouch, chaouche" in Fouzia Benzakour, Driss Gaadi, Ambroise Queffélec, Le français au Maroc: lexique et contacts de langues, Champs linguistiques; Recueils, Bruxelles: Duculot, 2000, p. 167. →ISBN.

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