foca

See also: FOCA, and focă

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin phōca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfo.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfo.ka]

Noun

foca f (plural foques)

1. (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.

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Galician

Etymology 1

From foco (“hollow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɔkɐ]

Noun

foca f (plural focas)

1. (regional, dated) hole, piercing
   • c1780, 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

Etymology 2

From Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē, “seal, sea dog”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɔkɐ]

Noun

foca f (plural focas)

1. (mammals) seal

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “foca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (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), “foca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

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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)

1. (mammals) seal

   Synonym: vecchio marino

Derived terms

• foca monaca
• fochiera

Further reading

• foca on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

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Portuguese

foca

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)

1. (mammals) seal

See also

• leão-marinho
• morsa

Etymology 2

Verb

foca

1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

Further reading

• foca on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfoka]

Noun

foca f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of focă

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē, “seal, sea dog”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoka/ [ˈfo.ka]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

Noun

foca f (plural focas)

1. seal (mammal)

   Synonyms: lobo marino, lobo del mar

2. (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 (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28

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Tetelcingo Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish foca.

Noun

foca (plural focas)

1. seal (animal)
   • 1964, Yulcöme‎^[1], 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.