charque

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish charqui, from Quechua charki.^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃaʁ.ki/
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈʃaɾ.ki/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʃaʁ.ki/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃaɻ.ke/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃaɾ.kɨ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃaɾ.kɨ/

(Northern Portugal) IPA^(key):
Hyphenation: char‧que

Noun

charque m (plural charques)

(Brazil) jerky (lean meat cured and preserved by cutting into thin strips and air-drying in the sun)

Descendants

→ Hunsrik: Scharke

References

^ “charque”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
^ “charque”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Spanish

Noun

charque m (plural charques)

Alternative form of charqui

Derived terms

charquear

Further reading

“charque”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28

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