pousse-pousse

French

Alternative forms

poussepousse (post-1990 spelling)
pousse (short form)

Etymology

From pousser (“to push”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pus.pus/
Audio (CAN) (file)

Noun

un pousse-pousse japonais

pousse-pousse m (plural pousse-pousse)

(transport) rickshaw

Descendants

→ Ottoman Turkish: پو̀سْ‌پو̀سْ (puspus)
⇒ Turkish: çekçek

References

‘pousse-pousse’ in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française (9th Edition).

Further reading

“pousse-pousse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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