See also: Tasca, tascá, tašča, and tașcă

Catalan

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Noun

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tasca f (plural tasques)

  1. task

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Galician

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Etymology 1

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Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ (bag, pouch).

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tasca f (plural tascas)

  1. landing net

Etymology 2

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Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *tasko- (peg).[1]

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tasca f (plural tascas)

  1. an implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them
  2. the action of scutching the flax
  3. a reunion for scutching the flax

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tasca f (plural tascas)

  1. (mildly derogatory) tavern

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tasca f (plural tascas)

  1. twait shad (Alosa fallax)
  2. allis shad (Alosa alosa)

Etymology 3

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Verb

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tasca

  1. inflection of tascar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

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  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (20062018) “tasca”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • tasca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • tasca (rede)” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • tasca 'taberna'” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • tasca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “tascar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Interlingua

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Compare Italian tasca, German Tasche, Danish taske, Czech taška.

Noun

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tasca (plural tascas)

  1. bag

Italian

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Etymology

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From Frankish *taskā, from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ. Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *das-, *des- (to fray).

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  • IPA(key): /ˈta.ska/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -aska
  • Hyphenation: tà‧sca

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tasca f (plural tasche)

  1. pocket
    Le penne spia possono essere facilmente agganciate alla tasca della giacca o della camicia, e nessuno sospetterà nulla.
    Pen voice recorders can be easily clipped onto your jacket or shirt pocket and no one will suspect anything.
    • 1995, “Dentro la tasca di un qualunque mattino”, in Montgolfières, performed by Gianmaria Testa:
      Dentro la tasca di un qualunque mattino / dentro la tasca ti porterei / nel fazzoletto di cotone e profumo / nel fazzoletto ti nasconderei
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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Further reading

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  • tasca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Occitan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Early Medieval Latin tasca.

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tasca f (plural tascas)

  1. sack, pouch
  2. pocket
  3. (historical) the right of champart

Portuguese

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Etymology 1

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From tascar (to nibble).

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tasca f (plural tascas)

  1. restaurant
  2. bar
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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tasca

  1. inflection of tascar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtaska/ [ˈt̪as.ka]
  • Rhymes: -aska
  • Syllabification: tas‧ca

Etymology 1

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Deverbal from tascar (to scutch; to nibble); see also Portuguese tasca.

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tasca f (plural tascas)

  1. bar; inn; drinking hole

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Verb

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tasca

  1. inflection of tascar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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