coca

coca

See also: Coca, COCA, cóca, còca, cocã, cocă, coça, and côca

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊkə/

• Audio (UK)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊkə/
• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊkə, (General American) -oʊkə

Etymology 1

The leaves and fruit of a coca plant.

Borrowed from Spanish coca, from Quechua kuka, perhaps from Aymara.

Noun

coca (usually uncountable, plural cocas)

1. Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
2. The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine.

Derived terms

• Coca-Cola
• cocain
• cocaine
• coca paste
• coca wine

 

Translations

any of four cultivated plants of the family Erythroxylaceae

Chinese: Mandarin: 古柯 (zh) (gǔkē) Hindi: कोका (hi) m (kokā) Irish: cóca m Japanese: コカ (koka) Mongolian: кокайны мод (kokajny mod) Polish: koka (pl) f Romanian: coca (ro) m Russian: ко́ка (ru) f (kóka) Turkish: koka (tr)

the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)

Bulgarian: кока (bg) f (koka) Czech: kokainovník pravý Dutch: coca (nl) f Finnish: kokapensaat French: coca (fr) German: Cocablatt n, Koka (de) n Hebrew: קוקה‎ f (koka) Hindi: कोका (hi) m (kokā) Ido: kokao (io) Irish: cóca m Italian: coca (it) f Japanese: コカ (koka) Khmer: កូកា (koukaa) Mongolian: кока (koka) Polish: koka (pl) f Portuguese: coca (pt) f Romanian: coca (ro) m Spanish: coca (es) f Swedish: kokabuske Turkish: koka ağacı

Further reading

• Erythroxylum coca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Erythroxylum coca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Erythroxylum coca on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Catalan coca. Doublet of cake.

Noun

coca (plural cocas)

1. A pastry typically made and consumed in the Catalan-speaking areas.
   • 2015 April 17, Lisa Abend, “Sweet and Salty: Majorca’s Traditional Cuisine”, in New York Times‎:

     A coca, a type of flat bread normally topped with roasted vegetables, was capped by strands of briny whitebait.

Further reading

• coca (pastry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• caco-

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈko.kə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ka/

Etymology 1

coca de Sant Joan

From Old Dutch coca, from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ, related to English cake.

Noun

coca f (plural coques)

1. (cooking) coca (pastry typically made and consumed in the Catalan-speaking areas)

Derived terms

• coca bamba
• coca de llanda

Etymology 2

From Quechua koka.

Noun

coca f (plural coques)

1. (botany) coca (Erythroxylum coca)
2. (colloquial) coke (cocaine)

   Synonym: cocaïna

Derived terms

• cocaïna

Further reading

• “coca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “coca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• coca (pastís) on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca
• coques on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish coca, from Quechua kuka, perhaps from Aymara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.kaː/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: co‧ca

Noun

coca f (plural coca's)

1. coca, plant of the family Erythroxylaceae
2. (uncountable) coca, consumable leaves of these plants

Derived terms

• cocaïne

Related terms

• coke

Descendants

• → Indonesian: koka

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ka/

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Etymology 1

Apocope of Coca-Cola

Noun

coca m (plural cocas)

1. Coke (serving of Coca-Cola)
2. cola (serving of any cola drink)
   • 2019 January 17, Amélie Petitdemange, "Dry January, Lundi Vert… des Millennials de plus en plus healthy ?", Les Echos.

     “Quand tu commandes un coca dans un bar, t’as l’air bizarre”, abonde Camille, étudiante en journalisme.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish, from Quechua.

Noun

coca m (plural cocas)

1. coca (plant)
2. (informal) cocaine

Further reading

• “coca”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Galician

Coca parade, Redondela, Galicia

Etymology 1

From cocatriz, probably from Old French cocatriz, from Latin calcātrīx.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔka̝/

Noun

coca m (plural cocas)

1. (mythology, folklore) cockatrice, in Galician folklore a water creature
   • c1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Oviedo: Archivum, page 134:

     de baleas, de cocas, de orças et de todoslos outros pescados quea ẽnas agoas

     of whales, of cockatrices, of orcas and of all the other fishes that are in the waters

   • 1441, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 145:

     que ordenaba e mandaba que andase logo a dita confraría de Santa Oufémea depúus a confraría de Santa María a Madre con sua danza de espadas e çirios e outros jogos algúus, se os tebesen, saluo que o jogo da qoqa que andase aalende das confrarías de San Sebastián e de San Migeel, junto con a confraría dos carniçeyros, por que a dita coqa he escandallosa

     they ordered and commanded that the guild of Saint Euphemia be the firt [in the parade], then the guild of Saint Mary Mother, with its sword dance and candles and other amusements, if they have any, with the exception of the game of the cockatrice, which should go after the guilds of Saint Sebastian and Saint Michael, with the butcher's guild, because said cockatrice is scandalous

   Synonym: cocatriz

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish, from Quechua.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔka̝/

Noun

coca f (plural cocas)

1. coca (plant)
2. (informal, drugs) cocaine

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔka̝/

Noun

coca m (plural cocas)

1. Alternative form of coco
2. claw (pincer of a crustacean)

References

• “coca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “coq” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “coca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “coca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “coca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Portuguese

Noun

coca f (plural cocas)

1. coca (cultivated plant of the family Erythroxylaceae)
2. coca (dried leaf of Erythroxylon coca)
3. Coke (Coca-Cola)
4. (uncountable, slang) snow (cocaine)

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French coca, from Spanish, from Quechua.

Noun

coca f (uncountable)

1. coca plant

See also

• cocă

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Southern Ndebele

Verb

-coca

1. to chat, to discuss

Inflection

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoka/ [ˈko.ka]
• Rhymes: -oka
• Syllabification: co‧ca

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Quechua koka or Aymara kuka (“coca”).

Noun

coca f (plural cocas)

1. coca (any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America)
2. coca (the dried leaf of one of these plants)

Derived terms

• cocaína
• cocalero
• coquero

Descendants

• English: coca

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of cocaína (“cocaine”).

Noun

coca f (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) coke, cocaine

   Synonyms: cocaína, perico, farlopa

Etymology 3

Abbreviation of Coca-Cola.

Noun

coca f (plural cocas)

1. Coke (Coca-Cola, a trademarked soft drink)

Further reading

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

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Swazi

Etymology

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Verb

-coca

1. to chat

Inflection

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Vietnamese

Noun

coca

1. (botany) coca, plant of the family Erythroxylaceae

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Xhosa

Etymology

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Verb

-coca

1. to become clean

Inflection

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