chupe

Borrowed from Spanish, from Quechua chupi.

chupe (uncountable)

1. A stew containing meat and potatoes, part of Chilean and Peruvian cuisine.
   • 1854, William Lewis Herndon, Lardner Gibbon, Exploration of the Amazon Valley:

     Chupe is the Peruvian national dish, and may be made of any and every thing, so long as it holds its relationship to soup. It is made generally of mutton, potatoes, eggs, rice, all highly seasoned with pepper, &c.

   • 1868, Harper's New Monthly Magazine:

     And as chupe is the eternal and almost always the sole dish obtainable in the interior of Peru and in Bolivia, I may as well dispose of it at once.

   • 1911, Hiram Bingham, Across South America:

     Here can be purchased all the native articles of luxury: coca, chupe, frozen potatoes, parched corn, and chicha […]

   • 1985, Felipe Rojas-Lombardi, Soup, Beautiful Soup:

     […] but for the most authentic chupe, leave the shells on the shrimp.

• IPA^(key): /ʃuˈpe/

chupe

1. him, her; accusative of ha'e

   Ñande jahechase chupe. ― We want to see him.

2. to him, to her, for him, for her; dative of ha'e

   Emeˈẽ chupe mbaraka. ― Give her the guitar.

chupe

1. inflection of chupar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃupe/ [ˈt͡ʃu.pe]
• Rhymes: -upe
• Syllabification: chu‧pe

Borrowed from Quechua chupi.

chupe m (plural chupes)

1. (Chile, Peru, Panama) soup, made generally of potatoes, meat or fish and different vegetables

chupe

1. inflection of chupar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “chupe”, 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