couscous

• cuscus, kuskus (dated)

Borrowed from French couscous, from Arabic كُسْكُس (kuskus) from Northern Saharan Berber seksu or from Tuareg keskesu. First use appears c. 1593.

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

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkus.kus/

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.

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

• couscoussier

• couscous on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

• IPA^(key): /kusˈkus/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: cous‧cous
• Rhymes: -us

couscous m (uncountable)

1. couscous

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuskus/,

couscous

1. Alternative form of kuskus

• “couscous”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• cous-cous (superseded spelling)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

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

• IPA^(key): /kus.kus/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -us

couscous m (plural couscous)

1. couscous

• couscousserie
• couscoussier
• couscoussière

• → Dutch: couscous
• → English: couscous

• “couscous”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.