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maku.

taste, flavor

4 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈmɑku/[ˈmɑ̝ku]

  1. taste, flavor

    olla jonkun makuun

  2. taste, sense of taste, gustation

  3. flavor, variety

    uudet jäätelömaut

  4. flavor (type of quark or lepton)

Where this word comes from

From Proto-Finnic *maku, from the same root as *makëda and derived from *makjas (whence maajas).

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