charqui

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   meat, especially beef, preserved by cutting it into strips and drying it

   The travelers fried their charqui over the fire after a day in the mountains.

Borrowed from Spanish charqui, from Quechua ch'arki ("dried meat"). English jerky ultimately comes from the same Quechua word through Spanish, making the two terms close historical relatives.

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