tucán
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Tupian tuka, tukan, tukana, which probably originated as an imitation of its cry.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tucán m (plural tucanes)
- toucan
- (Costa Rica, dated) a 5000 colón bill
Descendants
[edit]- → Bulgarian: тукан m (tukan)
- → Catalan: tucà m
- → Dutch: toekan m
- →? French: toucan m
- → German: Tukan m
- →? Macedonian: тукан m (tukan)
- →? Russian: тукан m anim (tukan)
- → Armenian: տուկան (tukan)
Further reading
[edit]- “tucán”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- Spanish terms borrowed from Tupian languages
- Spanish terms derived from Tupian languages
- Spanish onomatopoeias
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/an
- Rhymes:Spanish/an/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Costa Rican Spanish
- Spanish dated terms
- es:Birds