boca - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (2024)

Aragonese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin bucca.

Noun[edit]

bocaf

1. (anatomy) mouth

Asturian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin bucca.

Noun[edit]

bocaf (plural boques)

1. (anatomy) mouth

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Latin bucca.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈbo.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈbo.ka]

• Audio

  (file)

Noun[edit]

bocaf (plural boques)

1. (anatomy) mouth

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• “boca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “boca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “boca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “boca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Galician-Portuguese boca, from Latin bucca.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): [ˈbokɐ]

• Audio

  (file)

Noun[edit]

bocaf (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[edit]

• ceo da boca

References[edit]

• “boca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “boca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “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, Royal Galician Academy.

Hausa[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English voucher.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

bōcā̀f (plural bōcōcī, possessed form bōcàr̃)

1. financial voucher

Occitan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Occitan, from Latin bucca.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /buko/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun[edit]

bocaf (plural bocas)

1. (anatomy) mouth

Old English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈboː.kɑ/

Noun[edit]

bōca

1. genitive plural of bōc

Old Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin bucca (“cheek”).

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈboka/

Noun[edit]

bocaf(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[edit]

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

Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

• Hyphenation: bo‧ca

Noun[edit]

bocaf (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 boca ― Fill it up to the brim

3. burner, ring (of a stove)
4. (Brazil, slang) illegal drug shop

   Synonyms: biqueira, bocada, bica

Quotations[edit]

For quotations using this term, see Citations:boca.

Derived terms[edit]

• bocão (augmentative), bocona (augmentative)
• boquinha (diminutive)

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Venetian bozza.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

bȍcaf (Cyrillic spelling бо̏ца)

1. bottle

   Synonym: flaša

2. tank (diving cylinder, gas cylinder)

Declension[edit]

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

bocaf (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[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

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

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