toque

toque · noun¹

1. Arabic · derived fromطَاقِيَّة
2. Middle French · derived fromtoque“toque”
3. English todaytoque

From Middle French toque (“toque”), from Arabic طَاقِيَّة (ṭāqiyya).

toque · noun²

1. Canadian French · borrowed fromtuque
2. English todaytoque

1871. Assimilated from Canadian French tuque. Likely to be a hypercorrection from the time that toque was already in the dictionaries when they did not yet list tuque as a kind of hat. The French word tuque for hat is itself not strictly a deformation of French toque: it is also related to other meanings of tuque and to its former name bonnet à la turque (literally “Turkish-style bunnet/cap”).

toque · noun³

1. Spanishtocardeverb.
2. Spanishtoque
3. English todaytoque

Borrowed from Spanish toque.

Words from the same roots