foca
See also: FOCA and focă
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin phōca.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /ˈfo.kə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈfo.ka/
Noun
foca f (plural foques)
- (mammals) seal
- Synonyms: llop marí, llop de mar, vell marí, serena
Derived terms
- foca barbuda
- foca comuna
- foca grisa
- foca lleopard
- foca monjo
Further reading
- “foca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Galician
Etymology 1
From foco (“hollow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈfɔkɐ]
Noun
foca f (plural focas)
- (regional, dated) hole, piercing
- c. 1780, Anonymous, Cincuenta décimas contra Cernadas:
- Mordesme en Papeliños,
- que leeron moitas Xentes:
- mordes me, chantasme os dentes
- chantame agora os focinos:
- si lendo estes meus termiños
- fixères xestos, ou mocas,
- ê contra min te desuocas,
- ê con Mocas ques ferir me,
- e focas no Corpo abrirme,
- Chantame as mocas nas focas.
- You bite me in little papers
- that many people have read
- You bite me, thrust you teeth in me
- Thrust now your snout
- If reading these my terms
- You do gestures or grimaces
- and against me you run off at the mouth
- and with clubs you want to injure me
- and holes in my body open
- Thrust the clubs into my holes
- c. 1780, Anonymous, Cincuenta décimas contra Cernadas:
Etymology 2
From Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē, “seal, sea dog”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈfɔkɐ]
Noun
foca f (plural focas)
- (mammals) seal
References
- “foca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “foca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
Italian
Etymology
From Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē). Compare French phoque.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɔ.ka/
- Rhymes: -ɔka
- Hyphenation: fò‧ca
Noun
foca f (plural foche)
- (mammals) seal
- Synonym: vecchio marino
Derived terms
- foca monaca
- fochiera
Further reading
- foca on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɔ.kɐ/
- Hyphenation: fo‧ca
Etymology 1
From Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē, “seal, sea dog”).
Noun
foca f (plural focas)
- (mammals) seal
See also
- leão-marinho
- morsa
Verb
foca
- inflection of focar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- foca on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈfoka]
Noun
foca f
- definite nominative/accusative singular of focă
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē, “seal, sea dog”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfoka/ [ˈfo.ka]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - Rhymes: -oka
- Syllabification: fo‧ca
Noun
foca f (plural focas)
- seal (mammal)
- Synonyms: lobo marino, lobo del mar
- (colloquial) whale (large, especially fat, person)
Derived terms
- como una foca
- foca anillada de Saimaa
- foca barbuda
- foca común
- foca de Groenlandia
- foca leopardo
- foca manchada
- foca pía
- piel de foca
Descendants
- → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: foca
Further reading
- “foca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tetelcingo Nahuatl
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish foca.
Noun
foca (plural focas)
- seal (animal)
- 1964, Yulcöme [Animals], México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en cooperación con la Dirección General de Asuntos Indígenas de la Secretaría de Educación Pública, page 71:
- Ini foca nemi ipa Asia, Miexijco hua ipa Estado Unidos.
- The seal lives in Asia, Mexico and in the United States.
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