pousse-pousse

French

Alternative forms

• poussepousse (post-1990 spelling)
• pousse (short form)

Etymology

From pousser (“to push”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pus.pus/

• Audio (CAN):

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Noun

un pousse-pousse japonais

pousse-pousse m (plural pousse-pousse)

1. (transport) rickshaw

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: پو̀سْ‌پو̀سْ (puspus)
• ⇒ Turkish: çekçek

References

• ‘pousse-pousse’ in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française (9th Edition).

Further reading

• “pousse-pousse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.