boca

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See also: Boca, bóca, böca, and boça

Aragonese

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Etymology

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From Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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boca f (plural bocas)

  1. (anatomy) mouth

Asturian

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Etymology

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From Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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boca f (plural boques)

  1. (anatomy) mouth

Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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boca f (plural boques)

  1. (anatomy) mouth

Derived terms

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Further reading

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Galician

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese boca, from Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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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

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References

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  • Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (20062022) “boca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (20062018) “boca”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • 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

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English voucher.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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bōcā̀ f (plural bōcōcī, possessed form bōcàr̃)

  1. financial voucher

Occitan

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Etymology

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From Old Occitan, from Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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boca f (plural bocas)

  1. (anatomy) mouth

Old English

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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bōca

  1. genitive plural of bōc

Old Spanish

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Etymology

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From Latin bucca (cheek).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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

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

Portuguese

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -okɐ
  • Hyphenation: bo‧ca

Noun

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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 bocaFill it up to the brim
  3. burner, ring (of a stove)
  4. (Brazil, slang) illegal drug shop
    Synonyms: biqueira, bocada, bica

Quotations

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:boca.

Derived terms

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Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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From Venetian bozza.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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bȍca f (Cyrillic spelling бо̏ца)

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

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Spanish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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

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Further reading

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