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Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish merluza.
Pronunciation
Noun
merluza f (plural merluzas)
- hake (any of several fish of the genus Merluccius)
- Synonym: (rare) merlúcio
Further reading
Spanish
Etymology
From French merlu, from mer (“sea”) + dialectal luceau (“pike”),[1] from Latin lucius.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /meɾˈluθa/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /meɾˈlusa/
- Rhymes: -uθa
- Rhymes: -usa
- Syllabification: mer‧lu‧za
Noun
merluza f (plural merluzas)
- any of the fish in the genus Merluccius, all commonly called hakes in English; in Spain especially the European hake, Merluccius merluccius
- (Spain, colloquial) drunkenness
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera
- (colloquial, Argentina) cocaine
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