chupe

See also: chupé

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish, from Quechua chupi.

Noun

chupe (uncountable)

1. A stew containing meat and potatoes, part of Chilean and Peruvian cuisine.
   • 1854, William Lewis Herndon, Lardner Gibbon, Exploration of the Amazon Valley:

     Chupe is the Peruvian national dish, and may be made of any and every thing, so long as it holds its relationship to soup. It is made generally of mutton, potatoes, eggs, rice, all highly seasoned with pepper, &c.

   • 1868, Harper's New Monthly Magazine:

     And as chupe is the eternal and almost always the sole dish obtainable in the interior of Peru and in Bolivia, I may as well dispose of it at once.

   • 1911, Hiram Bingham, Across South America:

     Here can be purchased all the native articles of luxury: coca, chupe, frozen potatoes, parched corn, and chicha […]

   • 1985, Felipe Rojas-Lombardi, Soup, Beautiful Soup:

     […] but for the most authentic chupe, leave the shells on the shrimp.

Guaraní

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃuˈpe/

Pronoun

chupe

1. him, her; accusative of ha'e

   Ñande jahechase chupe. ― We want to see him.

2. to him, to her, for him, for her; dative of ha'e

   Emeˈẽ chupe mbaraka. ― Give her the guitar.

Portuguese

Verb

chupe

1. inflection of chupar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃupe/ [ˈt͡ʃu.pe]
• Rhymes: -upe
• Syllabification: chu‧pe

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Quechua chupi.

Noun

chupe m (plural chupes)

1. (Chile, Peru, Panama) soup, made generally of potatoes, meat or fish and different vegetables

Etymology 2

Verb

chupe

1. inflection of chupar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

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