charqui

From the same Quechua root as jerky, via Spanish.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɑɹ.ki/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɑː.kiː/

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charqui (countable and uncountable, plural charquis)

1. (South America, Central America, Western US) jerky
   • 1839, Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches, John Murray, published 1913, page 273:

     When it was dark, we made a fire beneath a little arbour of bamboos, fried our charqui (or dried slips of beef), took our maté, and were quite comfortable.

• “charqui”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from Quechua charki.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃaɾki/ [ˈt͡ʃaɾ.ki]

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• Rhymes: -aɾki
• Syllabification: char‧qui

charqui m (uncountable)

1. jerky (air-dried meat)

• → English: jerky
• → Portuguese: charque

• “charqui”, 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