choca

See also: chocá

Classical Nahuatl

Etymology

From Proto-Nahuan *čooka.

Verb

chōca

1. (intransitive) to cry, weep
2. (intransitive) to bleat (of sheep); to roar, growl (of lions, jaguar, bulls); to cry (of birds)

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Galician

A peliqueiro (a Galician carnivalesque character) wearing chocas ("cowbells").

Etymology 1

from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”): compare Welsh cloch, Irish clog.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɔka̝/

Noun

choca m (plural chocas)

1. cowbell
   • 1474, Antonio López Ferreiro (ed.), Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 66:

     dous fouçiños, e hun legon, e hun sacho, e hun escoupere, e hua eyxola grande, e hua serra de mao, e outra eyxola de peto, e tres fouçes, e duas choquas

     two small sickles, a hoe, a mattock, a chisel, a large axe, a handsaw, a hatchet, three large sickles, and two cowbells

   Synonyms: chocallo, cinzarra

Derived terms

• choco
• choqueiro

Etymology 2

Probably onomatopoeic, from *clocca, voice of a brood hen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃoka̝/

Adjective

1. broody
2. rotten
3. (of water) stagnant

References

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• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “choca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Northern Puebla Nahuatl

Etymology

From Proto-Nahuan *čooka.

Verb

choca

1. cry, weep

Related terms

• choquistli

References

• Brockway, Earl, Hershey de Brockway, Trudy, Santos Valdés, Leodegario (2018) Diccionario náhuatl del norte del estado de Puebla (Series de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas "Mariano Silva y Aceves"; 42)‎^[1] (in Spanish), segunda ILV edición (versión electrónica) edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 34

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɔ.kɐ/
• Hyphenation: cho‧ca

choca (1)

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Galician-Portuguese choca, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin clocca (“bell”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Gaulish *clocca, from imitative (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *klak.

Compare English clock and French cloche (“bell”) and Irish clog (“bell, clock”).

Noun

choca m (plural s)

1. bell, cowbell

Synonyms

• (cowbell): chocalho

uma galinha choca (a broody hen)

Etymology 2

Back-formation from chocar.

Adjective

choca

1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine singular of adjective choco.

Verb

choca

1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

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Spanish

Verb

choca

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of chocar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of chocar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of chocar.