moquém

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi moka'ẽ (“wooden grill”).[1] Compare English buccan, French boucan.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /moˈkẽj̃/ [moˈkẽɪ̯̃], /muˈkẽj̃/ [muˈkẽɪ̯̃]

  • (Brazil) Rhymes: -ẽj̃
  • Hyphenation: mo‧quém

Noun

moquém m (plural moquéns)

  1. (Brazil) buccan (a handmade grill made with sticks, of Tupian origin)
  2. (Brazil) buccan (the meat prepared in such grill)

Derived terms

Further reading

  1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “moka'ẽ”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 294, columns 1–2
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