tasca

See also: Tasca, tascá, tašča, and tașcă

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

tasca f (plural tasques)

1. task

Derived terms

• a tasca

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaska̝/

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ (“bag, pouch”).

Noun

tasca f (plural tascas)

1. landing net

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *tasko- (“peg”).

Noun

tasca f (plural tascas)

1. an implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them
2. the action of scutching the flax
3. a reunion for scutching the flax

Noun

tasca f (plural tascas)

1. (mildly derogatory) tavern

Noun

tasca f (plural tascas)

1. twait shad (Alosa fallax)
2. allis shad (Alosa alosa)

Etymology 3

Verb

tasca

1. inflection of tascar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “tasca”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tasca”, 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), “tasca (rede)”, in Tesouro informatizado 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), “tasca 'taberna'”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tasca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Interlingua

Etymology

Compare Italian tasca, German Tasche, Danish taske, Czech taška.

Noun

tasca (plural tascas)

1. pocket
2. bag

Italian

Etymology

From Frankish *taskā, from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ. Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *das-, *des- (“to fray”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtas.ka/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aska
• Hyphenation: tà‧sca

Noun

tasca f (plural tasche)

1. pocket

   Le penne spia possono essere facilmente agganciate alla tasca della giacca o della camicia, e nessuno sospetterà nulla.

   Pen voice recorders can be easily clipped onto your jacket or shirt pocket and no one will suspect anything.

   • 1995, “Dentro la tasca di un qualunque mattino”, in Montgolfières, performed by Gianmaria Testa:

     Dentro la tasca di un qualunque mattino / dentro la tasca ti porterei / nel fazzoletto di cotone e profumo / nel fazzoletto ti nasconderei

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• intascare
• rompitasche
• tascabile

Descendants

• → Interlingua: tasca
• → Old High German: tasca, taska
  • Middle High German: tasche, tesche
    • Central Franconian: Täsch
    • German: Tasche
      • → Czech: taška
      • → Kashubian: tasza
      • → Ladin: tascia
      • → Slovak: taška
      • → Serbo-Croatian: taška, tašna
      • → Lithuanian: tašė
    • Yiddish: טאַש (tash)
  • ⇒ Old High German: taskila, tascila
    • Old French: tasche, ⇒ tachette, tassette
      • Middle French: taisse
      • → Middle English: tache, tasse
        • English: tasse, tasset

Further reading

• “tasca”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

Anagrams

• casta

Occitan

Etymology

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin tasca.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Gascony):

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Noun

tasca f (plural tascas)

1. sack, pouch
2. pocket
3. (historical) the right of champart

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtas.kɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtas.kɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈtaʃ.kɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtaʃ.kɐ/

Etymology 1

From tascar (“to nibble”).

Noun

tasca f (plural tascas)

1. restaurant
2. bar

Synonyms

• bodega
• taberna
• tasco

Derived terms

• conversa de tasca
• tascante
• tasqueiro
• tasquinha

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tasca

1. inflection of tascar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “tasca”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “tasca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaska/ [ˈt̪as.ka]
• Rhymes: -aska
• Syllabification: tas‧ca

Etymology 1

Deverbal from tascar (“to scutch; to nibble”); see also Portuguese tasca.

Noun

tasca f (plural tascas)

1. bar; inn; drinking hole

Etymology 2

Verb

tasca

1. inflection of tascar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “tasca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025