vaca

See also: vacă, vacã, and vācā

English

Alternative forms

• vacay

Etymology

a clipping of vacation (informal, US)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌveɪ.keɪ/

Noun

vaca (plural vacas)

1. vacation.

Anagrams

• AACV, Cava, cava

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Asturian

Etymology

From Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *woḱéh₂.

Noun

vaca f (plural vaques)

1. cow

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *woḱéh₂.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈva.kə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈba.kə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈva.ka/
• Rhymes: -aka

Noun

vaca f (plural vaques)

1. cow

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Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• baka, vacca, baca, bacca

Etymology

From Latin vacca (“cow”), from Proto-Indo-European *woḱéh₂. Compare Italian vacca, Spanish vaca.

Noun

vaca f

1. cow

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Galician

Vacas

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese vaca, from Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *woḱéh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaka̝/

Noun

vaca f (plural vacas)

1. cow
2. type of large fishboat

Derived terms

• Bacariza
• Cabeza da Vaca
• Cabeza de Vaca
• Pena Vaqueira
• Penavaqueira
• Vacariza
• Vaqueira
• vaqueiro
• Vaqueiro
• vaqueriza

See also

• almallo
• becerro
• boi
• touro
• xato

References

• “vaca” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “vaca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “vaca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “vaca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “vaca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “vaca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Italian

Verb

vaca

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

Anagrams

• cava

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Latgalian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvatsa/

Adjective

vaca f

1. old

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Latin

Verb

vacā

1. first-person singular present active imperative of vacō

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀯𑀘 (Brahmi script)
• वच (Devanagari script)
• ৱচ (Bengali script)
• වච (Sinhalese script)
• ဝစ (Burmese script)
• วจ or วะจะ (Thai script)
• ᩅᨧ (Tai Tham script)
• ວຈ or ວະຈະ (Lao script)
• វច (Khmer script)

Etymology

From Sanskrit वच (vaca).

Noun

vaca ?

1. word, saying

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Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *woḱéh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaka/

Noun

vaca f (plural vache)

1. cow

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Portuguese

vaca

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈva.kɐ/
• Rhymes: -aka
• Hyphenation: va‧ca

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese vaca, from Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *woḱéh₂.

Noun

vaca f (plural vacas)

1. cow
2. (derogatory, slang) A promiscuous woman; bitch

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: báka
• Papiamentu: baka
• → Kadiwéu: waaca

See also

• boi
• touro
• bezerro
• vitelo
• novilho

Etymology 2

Verb

vaca

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of vacar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of vacar

References

• “vaca” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “vaca” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. [em linha]. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003-2019.
• “vaca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Romanian

Noun

vaca f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of vacă

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Spanish

vaca

Etymology

From Latin vacca, from the Proto-Indo-European *woḱéh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaka/
• Hyphenation: va‧ca

Noun

vaca f (plural vacas)

1. cow (adult female of the species Bos taurus)
2. beef

   Synonyms: vacuno, res

3. leather

   Synonym: cuero de vaca

4. (derogatory, informal) cow (woman considered unpleasant, particularly one considered fat)
5. (Chile) collection

   Synonym: recaudación

Derived terms

• vaca loca
• vaca marina
• vacas flacas
• vacas gordas
• vaquita
• vaquilla
• vaquero, vaquera
• vaquería

Descendants

• → Asi: baka
• → Aymara: waka
• → Bikol Central: baka
• → Binukid: baka
• → Bolinao: baka
• → Cebuano: baka
• → Chamicuro: waka
• → Chamorro: guäkä
• → Cherokee: ᏩᎦ (waga), ᏩᎧ (waka)
• → Hiligaynon: baka
• → Ilocano: baka
• → Kagayanen: baka
• → Kavalan: baka
• → Limos Kalinga: baka
• → Mapudungun: waka
• → Northern Catanduanes Bicolano: baka
• → Paraguayan Guaraní: vaka
• → Quechua: waka
• → Waray-Waray: baka
• ⇒ Spanish: vacas pl
  • → Chol: wakax
  • → Ch'orti': wakax
  • → Classical Nahuatl: huācax
  • → Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl: huacax
  • → K'iche': wakäx
  • → Navajo: béégashii
  • → Pipil: wakash
  • → Tzeltal: wakax
  • → Yucatec Maya: wakax

See also

• becerro
• ganado
• santa vaca
• ternero
• toro
• vacuno

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Venetian

Etymology

From Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *woḱéh₂.

Noun

vaca f (plural vache)

1. cow