chullo

English

A chullo

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish, from Quechua ch'ullu.

Noun

chullo (plural chullos)

1. A type of hat from Peru or Bolivia, usually made from wool or a similar fabric, and often having ear flaps that tie under the chin for warmth.
   • 2009 January 22, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “Season of the Chullo”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     While they’re there, they will probably buy a chullo or two, one of those cone-like alpaca pan-Andean hats with earflaps.

Translations

type of hat

• Spanish: chullo (es) m, llucho (es) m

See also

• chullo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:chullo on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Quechua ch'ullu.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃuʝo/ [ˈt͡ʃu.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈt͡ʃuʝo/ [ˈt͡ʃu.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈt͡ʃuʎo/ [ˈt͡ʃu.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈt͡ʃuʃo/ [ˈt͡ʃu.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈt͡ʃuʒo/ [ˈt͡ʃu.ʒo]

 

• Rhymes: -uʝo

• Rhymes: -uʝo
• Rhymes: -uʎo
• Rhymes: -uʃo
• Rhymes: -uʒo

• Syllabification: chu‧llo

Noun

chullo m (plural chullos)

1. chullo

Further reading

• “chullo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10