cucayo

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cucayo m (plural cucayos)

(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)

(Peru, colloquial) packed lunch

Further reading

“cucayo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
“cucayo” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010.

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