popote
French
Alternative forms
- popotte
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɔ.pɔt/
Noun
popote f (plural popotes)
- (colloquial) simple cooking
- Elle est rentrée chez elle préparer la popote.
- She came home to make some food.
Descendants
- → Romanian: popotă
Further reading
- “popote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl popōtl (“plant used to make brooms; broom, straw”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /poˈpote/ [poˈpo.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ote
- Syllabification: po‧po‧te
Noun
popote m (plural popotes)
- (Mexico) drinking straw
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pajita
Further reading
- “popote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
- “popote”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
- “popote”, in Diccionario del español de México, Segunda edición, Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, 2019
- popote | Diccionario • DELE Ahora
- popote. - Academia Mexicana de la Lengua
Swahili
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya): (file)
Adjective
popote
- pa class(XVI) inflected form of -o-ote
Adverb
popote