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English
Etymology
Blend of soul + calypso
Noun
soca (usually uncountable, plural socas)
- (music) A genre of music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1970s and developed into a range of styles during the 1980s and after which primarily includes influences of African and Indian rhythms.
2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 151:He even turned up a few times after that—with mix-tapes of soca music, and handwritten notes, and tears.
Derived terms
Translations
a style of popular dance music from the West Indies
- Japanese: ソカ (soka)
- Russian: со́ка f (sóka)
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Anagrams
- Saco, OACs, Asco, Caso, ocas, COAS, SCAO, saco, coas, COAs, CoAs, AOCs
Balinese
Romanization
soca
- Romanization of ᬲᭀᬘ
- Romanization of ᬰᭀᬘ
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Gaulish *tsukka, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“stock; stump”). Compare French souche.
Pronunciation
Noun
soca f (plural soques)
- trunk (of a tree)
- Synonym: tronc
- stump (remains of the base of a tree)
- Synonym: soc
- strain (a particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.)
Further reading
Javanese
Romanization
soca
- Romanization of ꦱꦺꦴꦕ
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Gaulish *soucā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sew- (“to bend, to cut, to drive”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sōca m (genitive sōcae); first declension
- (Late Latin) rope
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
Occitan
Etymology
Borrowed from Gaulish *tsukka, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“stock; stump”). Compare French souche.
Pronunciation
Noun
soca f (plural socas)
- trunk
- stump
- stock, in the sense of a grape vine, a cultivar
Dialectal variants
Derived terms
Old Javanese
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit शोचि (śoci, “flame, glow”), शुच् (śuc, “to shine, glow”).
Pronunciation
Noun
soca
- precious stone, gem
Derived terms
Noun
soca
- eye
Descendants
Pali
Verb
soca
- second-person singular imperative active of socati (“to grieve”)
Portuguese
Verb
soca
- inflection of socar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Gaulish *tsukka, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“stock; stump”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsoka/
- Rhymes: -oka
- Syllabification: so‧ca
Noun
soca f (plural socas)
- Young shoots of rice
Further reading
Sundanese
Romanization
soca
- Romanization of ᮞᮧᮎ