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maquis

Portuguese, noun/maˈkis/

maquis is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “maquis; macchia (type of brushland common in Corsica)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does maquis mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinemaquis; macchia (type of brushland common in Corsica)

noun

  1. 1

    femininemasculinemaquis (member of the French resistance during the Second World War)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of maquis

  • maqui alternative

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce maquis?

  • Brazil /maˈkis/
  • /maˈkiʃ/
  • Portugal /mɐˈkiʃ/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to maquis

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is maquis in Portuguese?

maquis appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).