lucha
Irish edit
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lucha f pl
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Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Late Latin lucta, from Latin luctor (whence English reluctant and ineluctable). Compare Catalan lluita, Galician loita, French lutte, Italian lotta and Romanian luptă.
Noun edit
lucha f (plural luchas)
- fight, fighting, fray
- struggle, battle (in the figurative sense), strife, striving
- Synonym: batalla
- 1973, “El pueblo unido jamás será vencido”, Quilapayún (lyrics), Sergio Ortega (music):
- Y ahora el pueblo / que se alza en la lucha / con voz de gigante / gritando: ¡adelante!
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- (sports, martial art) wrestling
- Synonym: pancracio
- control, enforcement, fight (e.g. disease control, tobacco control, drug control)
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Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
lucha
- inflection of luchar:
Further reading edit
- “lucha”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014