boca

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See also: Boca, bóca, böca, and boça

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

boca f (plural bocas)

  1. (anatomy) mouth

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

boca f (plural boques)

  1. (anatomy) mouth

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

Noun

boca f (plural boques)

  1. (anatomy) mouth

Derived terms

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese boca, from Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

Noun

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

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Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English voucher.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bōcā̀ f (plural bōcōcī, possessed form bōcàr̃)

  1. financial voucher

Ladino

Noun

boca f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling בוקה)

  1. Alternative spelling of boka
    • 1973, Annual, volumes 8-10, page 176:
      El bostejo va de boca en boca, como el pašarico de oja en oja.
      Yawning goes from mouth to mouth like the bird from bough to bough.

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

Noun

boca f (plural bocas)

  1. (anatomy) mouth

Old English

Pronunciation

Noun

bōca

  1. genitive plural of bōc

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin bucca (cheek).

Pronunciation

Noun

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

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

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -okɐ
  • Hyphenation: bo‧ca

Noun

boca f (plural bocas)

  1. (anatomy) mouth (the opening of a creature through which food is ingested)
    Evite respirar pela boca enquanto corre
    Avoid breathing by the mouth when running
  2. mouth (the end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water)
    • 1826, Academia das ciências de Lisboa, Collecçao de noticias para a historia e geografia das naçoes ultramarinas, que vivem nos dominios portuguezes, ou lhes sao visinhas..., Typografia da mesma Academia, page 9:
      Deste canal lança o Amazonas pela terra dentro aquella porção de agoa, que junta com a referida do Akeky fórma o rio deste nome, que dá entrada para o' Amazonas pela bocca do Xingú.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  3. brim (of a bottle or any other container)
    Synonym: bocal
    Encha até a bocaFill it up to the brim
  4. burner, ring (of a stove)
  5. (Brazil, slang) illegal drug shop
    Synonyms: biqueira, bocada, bica

Derived terms

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Venetan bozza.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bȍca f (Cyrillic spelling бо̏ца)

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

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

boca f (plural bocas)

  1. (anatomy) mouth, oral cavity
    Synonyms: (colloquial) pico, (pejorative) hocico
  2. entrance, opening
    Synonym: entrada
    • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 189:
      Las cocineras, para evitar que el Demonio eche a perder la comida, hacen la señal de la cruz sobre la boca de la olla.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 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):
      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

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