moqueca

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese moqueca, from Kimbundu mukeka.

Noun

moqueca (countable and uncountable, plural moquecas)

1. A Brazilian stew from the state of Bahia, based on fish, onions, garlic, tomatoes, and cilantro.
   • 1999 February 26, Don Rose, “Restaurant Tours: Nuevo Latino is heating up”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     Now he serves up such Bahian specialties as moqueca, a zesty shellfish stew simmered in rich coconut milk and rice ($16).

   • 2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury, published 2005, page 180:

     Eating the crayfish moqueca was almost as painful at the outset as it was delicious.

   • 2005 November 4, Martha Bayne, Kate Schmidt, Mike Sula, “Chichi Sushi in Uptown, Nuevo Latino on the Near South Side, and the Ultimate Serbian Bakery”, in Chicago Reader‎^[2]:

     But the standout of the evening had to be the moqueca do mar, a seafood stew with a kick-ass tomato-coconut milk broth perfumed with saffron and served with a little silver dish of rice and a few tostones.

Portuguese

Moqueca

Etymology

Borrowed from Kimbundu mukeka.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /moˈkɛ.kɐ/, /muˈkɛ.kɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /moˈkɛ.kɐ/, /muˈkɛ.kɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /moˈkɛ.ka/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /muˈkɛ.kɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɛkɐ
• Hyphenation: mo‧que‧ca

Noun

moqueca f (plural moquecas)

1. moqueca

Further reading

• “moqueca”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “moqueca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024