boca

See also: Boca, bóca, böca, and boça

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin bucca.

Noun

boca f

1. (anatomy) mouth

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Asturian

Etymology

From Latin bucca.

Noun

boca f (plural boques)

1. (anatomy) mouth

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Catalan

Etymology

From , from Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

boca f (plural boques)

1. (anatomy) mouth

Derived terms

• abocar
• bocabadat
• bocagròs
• bocamoll
• bocarrut
• bocut
• embocar

 

Further reading

• “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.

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese boca, from Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

boca f (plural bocas)

1. mouth

Further reading

• “boca”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

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Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English voucher.

Noun

bōcā̀ f (plural bōcōcī, possessed form bōcàr̃)

1. financial voucher

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Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buko/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

boca f (plural bocas)

1. (anatomy) mouth

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Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboːkɑ/

Noun

bōca

1. genitive plural of bōc

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Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin buccam, singular accusative of bucca (“cheek”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbo.ka]

Noun

boca f (plural bocas)

1. mouth
   • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 34r. b.

     Todos aq́llos / q́ nó fincaron los ynojos / ala ydola e todas las bocas q́ / 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 pph´a lo q́ 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

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

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Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbo.kɐ/

Noun

boca f (plural s)

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)

   Encha até a boca ― Fill it up to the brim

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:boca.

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Venetian bozza.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bȍca f (Cyrillic spelling бо̏ца)

1. bottle
2. tank (diving cylinder, gas cylinder)

Declension

Declension of boca

	singular	plural
nominative	bȍca	boce
genitive	boce	bȏcā
dative	boci	bocama
accusative	bocu	boce
vocative	boco	boce
locative	boci	bocama
instrumental	bocom	bocama

Synonyms

• (bottle): flaša

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Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish boca, from Latin buccam, singular accusative of bucca (“cheek”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboka/ [ˈbo.ka]

• Audio (Latin America):

  (file)

Noun

boca f (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

Derived terms

• a bocajarro
• a pedir de boca
• abocar
• abreboca
• arpa de boca
• boca a boca
• boca abajo
• boca arriba
• boca de dragón
• boca de sonido
• bocabajo
• bocadillo
• bocado
• bocal
• bocarriba
• bocata
• bocón
• boquiabierto
• boquilla
• boquita
• con la boca chica
• con la boca pequeña
• de la mano a la boca desaparece la sopa
• decir esta boca es mía
• desbocar
• embocar
• llevarse a la boca
• por la boca muere la pez
• quien tiene boca, se equivoca
• reír a boca llena

 

Related terms

• bucal

Further reading

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