merluza

Borrowed from Spanish merluza.

• Rhymes: -uzɐ

merluza f (plural merluzas)

1. hake (any of several fish of the genus Merluccius)

   Synonym: (rare) merlúcio

• “merluza”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “merluza”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

From French merlu, from mer (“sea”) + dialectal luceau (“pike”),^[1] from Latin lucius.

• IPA^(key): /meɾˈluθa/ [meɾˈlu.θa] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /meɾˈlusa/ [meɾˈlu.sa] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -uθa (Spain)
• Rhymes: -usa (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: mer‧lu‧za

merluza f (plural merluzas)

1. any of the fish in the genus Merluccius, all commonly called hakes in English; in Spain especially the European hake, Merluccius merluccius
2. (Spain, colloquial) drunkenness

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera

3. (colloquial, Argentina) cocaine

• “merluza”, 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
• “merluza”, 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