moquém
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Portuguese
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Tupi moka'ẽ (“wooden grill”).[1] Compare English buccan, French boucan.
Pronunciation
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- (Brazil) Rhymes: -ẽj̃
- Hyphenation: mo‧quém
Noun
[edit]moquém m (plural moquéns)
- (Brazil) buccan (a handmade grill made with sticks, of Tupian origin)
- (Brazil) buccan (the meat prepared in such grill)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “moka'ẽ”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 294, columns 1–2
- “moquém” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “moquém” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “moquém” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “moquém” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Categories:
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Old Tupi
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Tupi
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ẽj̃
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ẽj̃/2 syllables
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- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
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