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TUK-TUK [2 records]

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Record 1 2025-07-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Motor Vehicles and Bicycles
  • Mass Transit
  • Special Road Transport
DEF

A vehicle with three wheels and an engine, typically with open sides, that is used as a taxi in some countries.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sortes de véhicules automobiles et de bicyclettes
  • Transports en commun
  • Transports routiers spéciaux
DEF

Tricycle motorisé aménagé pour faire office de taxi dans certains pays [...]

Key term(s)
  • touk touk
  • tuk tuk

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tipos de vehículos automotores y bicicletas
  • Transporte público
  • Transporte por carretera especial
OBS

tuctuc; tuktuk: La Fundación del Español Urgente (Fundéu BBVA), con el asesoramiento de la Real Academia Española, indica que la grafía recomendada del nombre del vehículo motorizado de tres ruedas es "tuctuc", sin espacio ni guion. [...] Tal como indica la Ortografía de la lengua española, las palabras, normalmente de origen onomatopéyico, que se forman por la duplicación de un mismo elemento se escriben sin guiones cuando se usan como sustantivos: el "chachachá", el "pillapilla", el "tuctuc". Se escribe sin comillas ni cursiva y su plural es "tuctucs". También se documenta la grafía "tuktuk", plural "tuktuks". Aunque es válida, se recomienda mantener la "c" con la que se suele escribir la onomatopeya "tuc" en español.

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Record 2 2010-05-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Motor Vehicles and Bicycles
DEF

A light three-wheeled, pedaled or sometimes motorized vehicle used especially in the Orient for transporting passengers for hire.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sortes de véhicules automobiles et de bicyclettes
DEF

En Extrême-Orient, voiture légère traînée par un cycliste.

OBS

Pluriel : des cyclopousses, des cyclo-pousse; des vélopousses, des vélo-pousse.

OBS

cyclopousse (sing.); cyclopousses (pl.); vélopousse (sing.); vélopousses (pl.) : Ces graphies, puisées des Rectifications de l’orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, sont attestées dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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