charque

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish charqui, from Quechua ch'arki.[1][2]

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.kɨ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃaɾ.kɨ/

(Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃaɾ.kɨ]
Hyphenation: char‧que

Noun

charque m (plural charques)

(Brazil) jerky (lean meat cured and preserved by cutting into thin strips and air-drying in the sun)

Descendants

→ Hunsrik: Scharke

References

“charque” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
“charque” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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

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