cucús
Macanese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cucús
- steamed
- pêsse-cucús ― steamed fish
References
[edit]- ^ 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
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]cucús
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