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.

Synonyms

• leave, holiday; see also Thesaurus: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/

• Audio (Valencian)

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• Rhymes: -aka

Noun

vaca f (plural vaques)

1. cow

Further reading

• “vaca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “vaca” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “vaca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vaca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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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. (fishing) trawler

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. second-person singular present active imperative of vacō

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀯𑀘 (Brahmi script)
• वच (Devanagari script)
• ৰচ (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 m or n

1. word, saying

Declension

Declension table of "vaca" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	vaco	vacā
Accusative (second)	vacaṃ	vace
Instrumental (third)	vacena	vacehi or vacebhi
Dative (fourth)	vacassa or vacāya or vacatthaṃ	vacānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	vacasmā or vacamhā or vacā	vacehi or vacebhi
Genitive (sixth)	vacassa	vacānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	vacasmiṃ or vacamhi or vace	vacesu
Vocative (calling)	vaca	vacā

Declension table of "vaca" (neuter)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	vacaṃ	vacāni
Accusative (second)	vacaṃ	vacāni
Instrumental (third)	vacena	vacehi or vacebhi
Dative (fourth)	vacassa or vacāya or vacatthaṃ	vacānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	vacasmā or vacamhā or vacā	vacehi or vacebhi
Genitive (sixth)	vacassa	vacānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	vacasmiṃ or vacamhi or vace	vacesu
Vocative (calling)	vaca	vacāni

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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, 2003-2020.
• “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

• como una vaca
• el día que las vacas vuelen
• vaca lechera
• vaca loca
• vaca marina
• vaca sagrada
• vacas flacas
• vacas gordas
• vaquera
• vaquería
• vaquero
• vaquilla
• vaquita
• ve de vaca

 

Descendants

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
• → Tagalog: baka
• → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: böca
• → 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

Anagrams

• cava

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Venetian

Etymology

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

Noun

vaca f (plural vache)

1. cow