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Catalan
Etymology
Variant of amaluc, from Arabic عَظْم الْحُقّ (ʕaẓm al-ḥuqq), from عَظْم (ʕaẓm, “bone”) and حُقّ (ḥuqq, “joint”).
Pronunciation
Noun
maluc m (plural malucs)
- hip, hips
2008 February 8, El Periódico de Catalunya:El nou sistema de talles mesurarà bust, cintura i maluc en relació amb l'altura.- The new system of sizes will measure bust, waist and hips in relation to height.
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Further reading
- “maluc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “maluc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
- “maluc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 184