canaque
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See also: Canaque
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English kanaka (“Pacific islander”), from Hawaiian kanaka (“person”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
canaque (plural canaques)
Descendants[edit]
- → English: Kanak
Further reading[edit]
- “canaque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French canaque, from English kanaka (“Pacific islander”), from Hawaiian kanaka (“person”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
canaque m or f by sense (plural canaques)
- Kanak (native of New Caledonia)
Adjective[edit]
canaque m or f (plural canaques, not comparable)
- of or related to the Kanak people
Related terms[edit]
Categories:
- French terms borrowed from English
- French terms derived from English
- French terms derived from Hawaiian
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French adjectives
- Portuguese terms borrowed from French
- Portuguese terms derived from French
- Portuguese terms derived from English
- Portuguese terms derived from Hawaiian
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese nouns with multiple genders
- Portuguese masculine and feminine nouns by sense
- Portuguese adjectives
- Portuguese uncomparable adjectives