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Macanese
Etymology
Speculated to be of North African origin (although semantically challenging to explain a relationship to couscous), but also possibly borrowed from Malay kukus (“steamed”),[1] from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kukus, from Proto-Austronesian *kukus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
cucús
- steamed
- pêsse-cucús ― steamed fish
References
- ^ Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “cuscus”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 420
Further reading
Spanish
Noun
cucús
- plural of cucú