choza

Galician

A choza, Ourol, northern Galicia

Next to a house, and used as a barn

Alternative forms

• chouza

Etymology

13th century. From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese choça (Cantigas de Santa Maria); perhaps from Latin pluteus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɔθa̝/, (western) /ˈt͡ʃɔsa̝/

Noun

choza f (plural chozas)

1. hut
   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Oviedo: Archivum, page 88:

     pensarõ que mellores moradas poderiam aver que as que aviam, et buscarõ mays sobre esto, et tomarõ madeyros que arrymarõ aas pẽnas et aas grandes aruores et cobriã aqueles madeyros dos rramos das aruores et das eruas, et fezerõ logo desto moradas pequenas asy cõmo cabanas ou choças enque morassem.

     they though that they could get better dwellings than that that they had, so they searched about this, and they took logs that they supported against boulders and against large trees, and they covered them with branches and grasses, so building small dwelling, as cabins or huts, where do live

   Synonyms: cabana, casoupa, choupana

2. barn

Derived terms

• Choza

Related terms

• chozo

References

• “choça” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “choça”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “choza”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “choza”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “choza”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Spanish

Etymology

From Galician choza or Portuguese choça.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈt͡ʃoθa/ [ˈt͡ʃo.θa]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈt͡ʃosa/ [ˈt͡ʃo.sa]

Noun

choza f (plural chozas)

1. hut, shack

   Synonyms: barraca, cabaña, (Honduras) casucha, jacal, (Chile) ruca, (Puerto Rico) bohío

See also

• champa f

Further reading

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