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boca

See also: Boca, bóca, böca, and boça

Aragonese edit

Etymology edit

From Latin bucca.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈboka/
  • Rhymes: -oka
  • Syllabification: bo‧ca

Noun edit

boca f (plural bocas)

  1. (anatomy) mouth

Asturian edit

Etymology edit

From Latin bucca.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈboka/, [ˈbo.ka]
  • Rhymes: -oka
  • Hyphenation: bo‧ca

Noun edit

boca f (plural boques)

  1. (anatomy) mouth

Catalan edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin bucca.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

boca f (plural boques)

  1. (anatomy) mouth

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

Galician edit

Etymology edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese boca, from Latin bucca.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈboka/ [ˈbo.kɐ]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -oka
  • Hyphenation: bo‧ca

Noun edit

boca f (plural bocas)

  1. (anatomy) mouth
    • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 275:
      Et auj́a o nariz alto por mesura et a boca ben feyta et dentes ben postos et brãcos et o queixo quadrado et o colo longo et as espádoas anchas
      He had a high and measured nose and his mouth was well formed; the teeth, well disposed, were white; and the chin was square and the neck long, his shoulders were broad

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • “boca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “boca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “boca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “boca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “boca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  • “boca”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

Hausa edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English voucher.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /bóː.t͡ʃàː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [bóː.t͡ʃàː]

Noun edit

bōcā̀ f (plural bōcōcī, possessed form bōcàr̃)

  1. financial voucher

Occitan edit

Etymology edit

From Old Occitan, from Latin bucca.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

boca f (plural bocas)

  1. (anatomy) mouth

Old English edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

bōca

  1. genitive plural of bōc

Old Spanish edit

Etymology edit

From Latin bucca (“cheek”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

boca f (plural bocas)

  1. mouth
    • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 34r. b.
      Todos aq̃llos / q̃ nõ fincaron los ynojos / ala ydola e todas las bocas q̃ / la no beſaron […]
      All those who did not kneel their knees before the idol and all the mouths that did not kiss her […]
    • Idem, f. 42r. a.
      dixo el ppħa lo q̃ el criador puſie / re em mi boca eſſo fablare […]
      The prophet said: "that which the creator puts in my mouth, that is what I shall speak."

Descendants edit

  • Ladino: boka (Latin spelling)
  • Spanish: boca

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese boca, from Latin bucca, of Celtic origin.

Pronunciation edit

  • Rhymes: -okɐ
  • Hyphenation: bo‧ca

Noun edit

boca f (plural bocas)

  1. (anatomy) mouth
    Evite respirar pela boca enquanto corre
    Avoid breathing by the mouth when running
  2. brim (of a bottle or any other container)
    Synonym: bocal
    Encha até a boca ― Fill it up to the brim
  3. burner, ring (of a stove)
  4. (Brazil, slang) illegal drug shop
    Synonyms: biqueira, bocada, bica

Quotations edit

For quotations using this term, see Citations:boca.

Derived terms edit

Serbo-Croatian edit

Etymology edit

From Venetian bozza.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /bôt͡sa/
  • Hyphenation: bo‧ca

Noun edit

bȍca f (Cyrillic spelling бо̏ца)

  1. bottle
    Synonym: flaša
  2. tank (diving cylinder, gas cylinder)

Declension edit

Declension of boca
singular plural
nominative bȍca boce
genitive boce bȏcā
dative boci bocama
accusative bocu boce
vocative boco boce
locative boci bocama
instrumental bocom bocama

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Spanish boca, from Latin bucca (“cheek”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

boca f (plural bocas)

  1. (anatomy) mouth, oral cavity
    Synonyms: (colloquial) pico, (pejorative) hocico
  2. entrance, opening
    Synonym: entrada
    • 2019 May 9, María Belén Etchenique, “Radiografía del subte: una red que crece a paso lento pero suma 200 pasajeros por día”, in El Clarín (Argentina)‎[1]:
      De lunes a viernes, Buenos Aires se llena y vacía a través de sus bocas de subte.
      From Monday to Friday, Buenos Aires is filled and emptied through its metro entrances.
  3. estuary
    Synonyms: estero, estuario

Derived terms edit

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Further reading edit

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