"cuy" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈkui/
Etymology: Borrowed from Peruvian Spanish cuy (“guinea pig”) (ultimately from Quechua quwi (“guinea pig”)). Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|es-PE|cuy|t=guinea pig}} Borrowed from Peruvian Spanish cuy (“guinea pig”), {{der|en|qu|quwi|t=guinea pig}} Quechua quwi (“guinea pig”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} cuy (uncountable)
  1. guinea pig meat Tags: uncountable

Noun [Highland Popoluca]

Head templates: {{head|poi|noun}} cuy
  1. stick
    Sense id: en-cuy-poi-noun-j1PdkUzt Categories (other): Highland Popoluca entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Highland Popoluca entries with incorrect language header: 33 33 33
  2. tree
    Sense id: en-cuy-poi-noun-3Jxe24st Categories (other): Highland Popoluca entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Highland Popoluca entries with incorrect language header: 33 33 33
  3. wood
    Sense id: en-cuy-poi-noun-mfeFXreJ Categories (other): Highland Popoluca entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Highland Popoluca entries with incorrect language header: 33 33 33

Noun [Spanish]

IPA: /ˈkui/, [ˈkui̯]
Rhymes: -ui Etymology: Borrowed from Quechua quwi. Etymology templates: {{bor+|es|qu|quwi}} Borrowed from Quechua quwi Head templates: {{es-noun|m|+,#s,cúis}} cuy m (plural cuyes or cuys or cúis) Forms: cuyes [plural], cuys [plural], cúis [plural], cui [alternative], cúi [alternative], cuye [alternative], cuis [alternative], cuin [alternative], cuina [alternative], cuyo [alternative, El-Salvador]
  1. (Andes) guinea pig Tags: masculine Synonyms: conejillo de Indias
    Sense id: en-cuy-es-noun-436O2~H1 Categories (other): Andean Spanish, Spanish nouns with multiple plurals, Rodents Disambiguation of Spanish nouns with multiple plurals: 59 41 Disambiguation of Rodents: 45 55
  2. guinea pig meat (eaten especially in the Andes; see the Wikipedia article) Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-cuy-es-noun-mgP47Qoy Categories (other): Spanish entries with incorrect language header, Meats, Rodents Disambiguation of Spanish entries with incorrect language header: 35 65 Disambiguation of Meats: 31 69 Disambiguation of Rodents: 45 55

Symbol [Translingual]

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  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Cuitlatec. Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Cuitlatec terms
    Sense id: en-cuy-mul-symbol-KMmnJedH Categories (other): ISO 639-3, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, Translingual entries with incorrect language header, Translingual terms with redundant script codes, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 34 1 1 1 2 3 58 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 34 1 1 1 2 3 59

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-01-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (96027d6 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.