bocha

• bosa

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔt͡ʃa̝/

Either onomatopoeic^[1] or from Latin pustula (“pimple”), but influenced by Latin botulus (“sausage”). Compare also bostela.

bocha f (plural bochas)

1. blister

   Synonym: ampola

2. pimple, pustule
3. a kind of sausage

• boche
• bochecha

Borrowed from Italian boccia.

bocha f (plural bochas)

1. spherical body
2. bowling ball

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “bocha”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “bocha 'vexiga'”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bocha”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin bucca. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French boche.

bocha f (oblique plural bochas, nominative singular bocha, nominative plural bochas)

1. mouth (anatomy)

• boccia (Portugal)
• botcha (Brazil)

Borrowed from Italian boccia.

bocha f (plural bochas)

1. (Brazil) bowls; lawn bowls (sport where players roll balls such that they stop as close as possible to another ball)

   Synonym: bowls

2. (Brazil) bowl (ball thrown by the player in lawn bowls)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbot͡ʃa/

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• Rhymes: -otʃa
• Syllabification: bo‧cha

Borrowed from Italian boccia.

bocha f (plural bochas)

1. bowl (ball thrown in the game of bowls)
2. (in the plural) bowls (sport)

bocha f (uncountable)

1. canary clover

   Synonym: boja peluda

bocha f (plural bochas)

1. female equivalent of bocho

bocha f

1. feminine singular of bocho

bocha

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

• “bocha”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014