quechua

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quechua

1. The Quechua language.

• quichua, kechua

• IPA^(key): /ke.ʃɥa/, /ket.ʃwa/, /kɛt.ʃwa/, /ket.ʃu.wa/, /kɛt.ʃu.wa/

• Audio

  (file)

quechua m (uncountable)

1. the Quechua language

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

• quíchua (reintegrationist)

quechua m or f (plural quechuas)

1. Quechuan

quechua m or f (plural quechuas)

1. a member of the Quechua people

quechua m (uncountable)

1. Quechua (language)

• IPA^(key): /ˈke.tʃwa/

quechua

1. Quechua (language)

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish quechua.

quechua m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. Quechua

quechua m (plural quechua)

1. Quechua

• kichwa
• quichua (Ecuador)

• IPA^(key): /ˈket͡ʃwa/ [ˈke.t͡ʃwa]

• Audio (Peru):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -etʃwa
• Syllabification: que‧chua

quechua m or f (masculine and feminine plural quechuas)

1. Quechuan

quechua m or f by sense (plural quechuas)

1. Quechua (member of one of several South American ethnic groups)

quechua m (uncountable)

1. Quechua (language)

• “quechua”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014