vaca
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
a clipping of vacation (informal, US)
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
vaca (plural vacas)
SynonymsEdit
- leave, holiday; see also Thesaurus:vacation
AnagramsEdit
AragoneseEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
vaca f
AsturianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
vaca f (plural vaques)
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /ˈva.kə/
- (Central) IPA(key): /ˈba.kə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈva.ka/
Audio (Valencian) (file) - Rhymes: -aka
- Homophone: baca
NounEdit
vaca f (plural vaques)
- cow
- torpedo (ray of the genus Torpedo)
- painted comber (fish of species Serranus scriba)
- Synonyms: serrana, vaca serrana
Further readingEdit
- “vaca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “vaca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “vaca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “vaca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
DalmatianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin vacca (“cow”). Compare Italian vacca, Spanish vaca.
NounEdit
vaca f
GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Galician-Portuguese vaca, from Latin vacca.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
vaca f (plural vacas)
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “vaca” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
- “vaca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “vaca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “vaca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “vaca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “vaca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
ItalianEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
vaca
- inflection of vacare:
AnagramsEdit
LatgalianEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
vaca
- inflection of vacs:
LatinEdit
VerbEdit
vacā
Old Galician-PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
vaca f (plural vacas)
DescendantsEdit
Further readingEdit
PaliEdit
Alternative formsEdit
Alternative forms
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Sanskrit वच (vaca).
NounEdit
vaca m or n
DeclensionEdit
Declension table of "vaca" (masculine)
Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative (first) | vaco | vacā |
Accusative (second) | vacaṃ | vace |
Instrumental (third) | vacena | vacehi or vacebhi |
Dative (fourth) | vacassa or vacāya or vacatthaṃ | vacānaṃ |
Ablative (fifth) | vacasmā or vacamhā or vacā | vacehi or vacebhi |
Genitive (sixth) | vacassa | vacānaṃ |
Locative (seventh) | vacasmiṃ or vacamhi or vace | vacesu |
Vocative (calling) | vaca | vacā |
Declension table of "vaca" (neuter)
Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative (first) | vacaṃ | vacāni |
Accusative (second) | vacaṃ | vacāni |
Instrumental (third) | vacena | vacehi or vacebhi |
Dative (fourth) | vacassa or vacāya or vacatthaṃ | vacānaṃ |
Ablative (fifth) | vacasmā or vacamhā or vacā | vacehi or vacebhi |
Genitive (sixth) | vacassa | vacānaṃ |
Locative (seventh) | vacasmiṃ or vacamhi or vace | vacesu |
Vocative (calling) | vaca | vacāni |
ReferencesEdit
- Pali Text Society (1921-1925), “vaca”, in Pali-English Dictionary, London: Chipstead
PiedmonteseEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
vaca f (plural vache)
PortugueseEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): [ˈba.kɐ], [ˈβa.kɐ]
- Rhymes: -akɐ
- Hyphenation: va‧ca
Etymology 1Edit
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vaca, from Latin vacca.
NounEdit
vaca f (plural vacas)
- cow
- (derogatory, slang) a promiscuous woman; bitch
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vadia
DescendantsEdit
See alsoEdit
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
vaca
- inflection of vacar:
ReferencesEdit
- “vaca” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
- “vaca” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
- “vaca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
RomanianEdit
NounEdit
vaca f
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
vaca f (plural vacas)
- cow (adult female of the species Bos taurus)
- beef
- leather
- Synonym: cuero de vaca
- (derogatory, informal) cow (woman considered unpleasant, particularly one considered fat)
- (Chile) collection
- Synonym: recaudación
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Descendants
- → Asi: baka
- → Aymara: waka
- → Bikol Central: baka
- → Binukid: baka
- → Bolinao: baka
- → Cebuano: baka
- → Chickasaw: waaka'
- → Chamicuro: waka
- → Chamorro: guäkä
- → Cherokee: ᏩᎦ (waga), ᏩᎧ (waka)
- → Hiligaynon: baka
- → Ilocano: baka
- → Kagayanen: baka
- → Kavalan: baka
- → Limos Kalinga: baka
- → Mapudungun: waka
- → Northern Catanduanes Bicolano: baka
- → Paraguayan Guaraní: vaka
- → Quechua: waka
- → Tagalog: baka
- → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: böca
- → Waray-Waray: baka
- ⇒ Spanish: vacas pl
AdjectiveEdit
vaca f
VerbEdit
vaca
- inflection of vacar:
See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
- “vaca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
AnagramsEdit
VenetianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
vaca f (plural vache)