English

Noun

charqui ‎(countable and uncountable, plural charquis)

1. (South and Central America, Western US) jerky
   • 1839, Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches, John Murray (1913), page 273:

     When it was dark, we made a fire beneath a little arbour of bamboos, fried our charqui (or dried slips of beef), took our maté, and were quite comfortable.

References

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

Spanish

Etymology

From Quechuan.

Noun

charqui m ‎(uncountable)

1. jerky (air-dried meat)

Related terms

• charquear