charque
Portuguese
Etymology
From Spanish charqui, from Quechua ch'arki.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈʃaʁ.ki/ [ˈʃah.ki]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˈʃaɾ.ki/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈʃaʁ.ki/ [ˈʃaχ.ki]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈʃaɻ.ke/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈʃaɾ.k(ɨ)/
- Hyphenation: char‧que
Noun
charque m (plural charques)
- jerky (lean meat cured and preserved by cutting into thin strips and air-drying in the sun)
Descendants
- Hunsrik: Scharke
Spanish
Noun
charque m (plural charques)
- Alternative form of charqui
Derived terms
- charquear
Further reading
- “charque”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014