chicú

See also: chicu

Macanese

Alternative forms

• chicu

Etymology

Borrowed from Cantonese 慈姑 (ci⁴ gu¹, “arrowhead, Sagittaria sagittifolia”), although semantically closer to (and possibly influenced by) Japanese 慈姑 (kuwai, “Sagittaria trifolia”).

Noun

chicú

1. arrowhead (Sagittaria trifolia), particularly its tuber

   Synonym: nhame chicú

References

• Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “chicu”, 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 366
• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#chicu