caoutchouc

English

Alternative forms

cahootchie

Etymology

Borrowed from French caoutchouc, from Quechua kawchu.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkaʊtʃʊk/, /ˈkaʊtʃuk/

Noun

caoutchouc (countable and uncountable, plural caoutchoucs)

latex; natural rubber

Translations

natural rubber

Albanian: kauçuk (sq) m
Arabic: مَطَّاط‎ m (maṭṭāṭ), كَاوْتْشُوك‎ m (kāwtšūk)
Azerbaijani: kauçuk
Belarusian: каўчу́к m (kaŭčúk)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 樹膠 (zh), 树胶 (zh) (shùjiāo), 生橡膠, 生橡胶 (shēngxiàngjiāo)
Czech: kaučuk m
Esperanto: kaŭĉuko
Finnish: kautsu (fi)
French: caoutchouc (fr) m
German: Kautschuk (de) m
Hungarian: kaucsuk (hu)
Ido: kauchuko (io)
Japanese: 生ゴム (nama-gomu)
Kazakh: каучук (kawçwk)

Khmer: កៅស៊ូ (km) (kavsuu)
Korean: 천연 고무 (cheonyeon gomu)
Persian: کائوچو‎ (fa) (kâ'uču)
Polish: kauczuk (pl) m
Portuguese: borracha (pt) f, cautchu m
Romanian: cauciuc (ro) n
Russian: каучу́к (ru) m (kaučúk)
Slovene: kavčuk m
Tagalog: kawtso
Turkish: kauçuk (tr)
Turkmen: kauçuk
Ukrainian: каучу́к m (kaučúk)
Uzbek: kauchuk (uz)
Vietnamese: cao su (vi)

References

caoutchouc in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Quechua kawchu.

Pronunciation

audio (file)
IPA^(key): /ka.ut.ʃu/

Noun

caoutchouc m (plural caoutchoucs)

rubber (natural and synthetic)

Derived terms

Further reading

“caoutchouc” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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