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Bukele

/buˈkele/

proper noun/buˈkele/

a surname from Arabic

Related: bukelismo, bukelista

Borrowed from South Levantine Arabic بقيلة (bqēle), from Classical Arabic بُقَيْلَة (buqayla), the diminutive form of بَقْلَة (baqla, “purslane”). As an initial /bk/ consonant cluster is forbidden in Spanish, the /u/ of the classical form was reinserted to break it up.