coca

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See also: Coca, COCA, cóca, còca, cocã, cocă, and coça

English

Etymology 1

The leaves and fruit of a coca plant.

Borrowed from Spanish coca, from Quechua kuka, perhaps from Aymara.

Pronunciation

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Noun

coca (usually uncountable, plural cocas)

  1. Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
  2. The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine.
Derived terms
Translations

Further reading

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Catalan coca.

Noun

coca (plural cocas)

  1. A pastry typically made and consumed in the Spanish Mediterranean coast.
    • 2015 April 17, Lisa Abend, “Sweet and Salty: Majorca’s Traditional Cuisine”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      A coca, a type of flat bread normally topped with roasted vegetables, was capped by strands of briny whitebait.

Further reading

Anagrams

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

coca de Sant Joan

From Old Dutch coca, from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ, related to English cake.

Noun

coca f (plural coques)

  1. (cooking) coca (pastry typically made and consumed in the Spanish Mediterranean coast)

Etymology 2

From Quechua koka.

Noun

coca f (plural coques)

  1. (botany) coca (plant)

Further reading

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish coca, from Quechua kuka, perhaps from Aymara.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkoː.kaː/
  • Hyphenation: co‧ca

Noun

coca f (plural coca's)

  1. coca, plant of the family Erythroxylaceae
  2. (uncountable) coca, consumable leaves of these plants

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔ.ka/
  • Audio (Paris):(file)

Etymology 1

Contracted form of Coca-Cola

Noun

coca m (plural cocas)

  1. Coke (serving of Coca-Cola)
  2. cola (serving of any cola drink)
    • 2019 January 17, Amélie Petitdemange, "Dry January, Lundi Vert… des Millennials de plus en plus healthy ?", Les Echos.
      “Quand tu commandes un coca dans un bar, t’as l’air bizarre”, abonde Camille, étudiante en journalisme.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish, from Quechua.

Noun

coca m (plural cocas)

  1. coca (plant)
  2. (informal) cocaine

Further reading

Galician

Coca parade, Redondela, Galicia

Etymology 1

From cocatriz, probably from Old French cocatriz, from Latin calcātrīx.

Pronunciation

Noun

coca m (plural cocas)

  1. (mythology, folklore) cockatrice
    • 1441, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 145:
      que ordenaba e mandaba que andase logo a dita confraría de Santa Oufémea depúus a confraría de Santa María a Madre con sua danza de espadas e çirios e outros jogos algúus, se os tebesen, saluo que o jogo da qoqa que andase aalende das confrarías de San Sebastián e de San Migeel, junto con a confraría dos carniçeyros, por que a dita coqa he escandallosa
      they ordered and commanded that the guild of Saint Euphemia be the firt [in the parade], then the guild of Saint Mary Mother, with its sword dance and candles and other amusements, if they have any, with the exception of the game of the cockatrice, which should go after the guilds of Saint Sebastian and Saint Michael, with the butcher's guild, because said cockatrice is scandalous
    Synonym: cocatriz

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish, from Quechua.

Pronunciation

Noun

coca f (plural cocas)

  1. coca (plant)
  2. (informal, drugs) cocaine

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Noun

coca m (plural cocas)

  1. Alternative form of coco
  2. claw (pincer of a crustacean)

References

Portuguese

Noun

coca f (plural cocas)

  1. coca (cultivated plant of the family Erythroxylaceae)
  2. coca (dried leaf of Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
  3. Coke (Coca-Cola)
  4. (uncountable, slang) snow (cocaine)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French coca, from Spanish, from Quechua.

Noun

coca f (uncountable)

  1. coca plant

See also

Southern Ndebele

Verb

-coca?

  1. to chat, to discuss

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Spanish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Quechua koka or Aymara kuka (“coca”).

Noun

coca f (plural cocas)

  1. coca (any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America)
  2. coca (the dried leaf of one of these plants)
Derived terms
Descendants
  • English: coca

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of cocaína (“cocaine”).

Noun

coca f (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial) cocaine
Synonyms

Etymology 3

Abbreviation of Coca-Cola.

Noun

coca f (plural cocas)

  1. Coke (Coca-Cola, a trademarked soft drink)

Further reading

Swazi

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

-coca?

  1. to chat

Inflection

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Xhosa

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

-coca

  1. to become clean

Inflection

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