cucús

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Macanese

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Speculated to be of North African origin (although semantically challenging to explain a relationship to couscous), but also possibly borrowed from Malay kukus (steamed),[1] from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kukus, from Proto-Austronesian *kukus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kuˈkuʃ/, /kuˈkus/

Adjective

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cucús

  1. steamed
    pêsse-cucússteamed fish

References

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  1. ^ Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “cuscus”, 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 420

Further reading

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Spanish

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Noun

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cucús

  1. plural of cucú