• IPA^(key): /ˈiska̝/

Circa 1300. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin ēsca.

• esca

isca f (plural iscas)

1. tinder (dry plants used to light a fire)
   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 220:

     y achou cõ aquel arco hum estormento, et seu esqueyro, et sua ysca, et seu pedernal em el

     there he found, together with that bow, a tinderbox, with its lighter, its tinder, and its flint inside it

2. bait

Perhaps from liscar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈiska̝/

isca

1. shoo!

   Synonyms: gache, xo

isca

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ysca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ysca”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “isca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (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), “isca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “isca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Old Galician-Portuguese ysca, from Latin ēsca (“bait”), from edō (“to eat”).

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -iskɐ, (Portugal) -iʃkɐ
• Hyphenation: is‧ca

isca f (plural iscas)

1. (chiefly fishing) bait (substance used in catching fish or other animals)

   Synonyms: ardil, chamariz, cevo, engodo, isco

2. (by extension) lure; bait (something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure)

   Synonyms: chamariz, engodo

3. (cooking, Portugal, chiefly in the plural) a dish made with very thin slices of liver
4. a bite-sized piece of fried meat, usually fish
5. tinder; charcloth (combustible material in a tinderbox)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

isca

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

• “isca”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “isca”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Borrowed from Bulgarian искам (iskam).

a isca (third-person singular present iscă, past participle iscat, third-person subjunctive iște) 1st conjugation

1. (transitive, now typically of conflicts) to spark
2. (reflexive, now typically of conflicts) to arise