cochayuyo

English

Noun

cochayuyo (countable and uncountable, plural cochayuyos)

1. A type of edible seaweed (Durvillaea antarctica).

   Synonym: rimurapa

Spanish

Etymology

From Quechua kocha (“lagoon”) + yuyu (“vegetable”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kot͡ʃaˈʝuʝo/ [ko.t͡ʃaˈʝu.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /kot͡ʃaˈʝuʝo/ [ko.t͡ʃaˈʝu.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kot͡ʃaˈʃuʃo/ [ko.t͡ʃaˈʃu.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kot͡ʃaˈʒuʒo/ [ko.t͡ʃaˈʒu.ʒo]

• Audio (Peru):

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• Rhymes: -uʝo
• Syllabification: co‧cha‧yu‧yo

Noun

cochayuyo m (plural cochayuyos)

1. (Latin America) cochayuyo

   Synonyms: cachiyuyo, cochaguasca, coyofe

Further reading

• “cochayuyo”, 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
• cochayuyo on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es