cucayo

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kuˈkaʝo/ [kuˈka.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /kuˈkaʝo/ [kuˈka.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kuˈkaʃo/ [kuˈka.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kuˈkaʒo/ [kuˈka.ʒo]

• Rhymes: -aʝo
• Syllabification: cu‧ca‧yo

Etymology 1

Noun

cucayo m (plural cucayos)

1. (Colombia) scorched rice (crust of rice from a cooking pot)

Etymology 2

From Quechua cucayu (“food taken on a journey”).

Noun

cucayo m (plural cucayos)

1. (Peru, colloquial) packed lunch

Further reading

• “cucayo”, 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
• “cucayo” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010