boca

See also: Boca, bóca, böca, and boça

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboka/
• Rhymes: -oka
• Syllabification: bo‧ca

Noun

boca f (plural bocas)

1. (anatomy) mouth

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboka/, [ˈbo.ka]
• Rhymes: -oka
• Hyphenation: bo‧ca

Noun

boca f (plural boques)

1. (anatomy) mouth

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -oka
• Hyphenation: bo‧ca

Noun

boca f (plural boques)

1. (anatomy) mouth

Derived terms

• abocar
• bocabadat
• bocafluix
• bocagròs
• bocamoll
• bocarrut
• bocut
• de bocaterrosa
• embocar

 

Further reading

• “boca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “boca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “boca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “boca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese boca, from Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboka/ [ˈbo.kɐ]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -oka
• Hyphenation: bo‧ca

Noun

boca f (plural bocas)

1. (anatomy) mouth
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 275:

     Et auj́a o nariz alto por mesura et a boca ben feyta et dentes ben postos et brãcos et o queixo quadrado et o colo longo et as espádoas anchas

     He had a high and measured nose and his mouth was well formed; the teeth, well disposed, were white; and the chin was square and the neck long, his shoulders were broad

Derived terms

• ceo da boca

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “boca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “boca”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “boca”, 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), “boca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “boca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “boca”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English voucher.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bóː.t͡ʃàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [bóː.t͡ʃàː]

Noun

bōcā̀ f (plural bōcōcī, possessed form bōcàr̃)

1. financial voucher

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buko/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

boca f (plural bocas)

1. (anatomy) mouth

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboː.kɑ/

Noun

bōca

1. genitive plural of bōc

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin bucca (“cheek”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboka/

Noun

boca f (plural bocas)

1. mouth
   • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 34r. b.

     Todos aq̃llos / q̃ nõ fincaron los ynojos / ala ydola e todas las bocas q̃ / la no beſaron […]

     All those who did not kneel their knees before the idol and all the mouths that did not kiss her […]

   • Idem, f. 42r. a.

     dixo el ppħa lo q̃ el criador puſie / re em mi boca eſſo fablare […]

     The prophet said: "that which the creator puts in my mouth, that is what I shall speak."

Descendants

• Ladino: boka (Latin spelling)
• Spanish: boca

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese boca, from Latin bucca, of Celtic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbo.kɐ/

• Rhymes: -okɐ
• Hyphenation: bo‧ca

Noun

boca f (plural bocas)

1. (anatomy) mouth (the opening of a creature through which food is ingested)

   Evite respirar pela boca enquanto corre

   Avoid breathing by the mouth when running

2. mouth (the end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water)
   • 1826, Academia das ciências de Lisboa, Collecçao de noticias para a historia e geografia das naçoes ultramarinas, que vivem nos dominios portuguezes, ou lhes sao visinhas..., Typografia da mesma Academia, page 9:

     Deste canal lança o Amazonas pela terra dentro aquella porção de agoa, que junta com a referida do Akeky fórma o rio deste nome, que dá entrada para o' Amazonas pela bocca do Xingú.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. brim (of a bottle or any other container)

   Synonym: bocal

   Encha até a boca ― Fill it up to the brim

4. burner, ring (of a stove)
5. (Brazil, slang) illegal drug shop

   Synonyms: biqueira, bocada, bica

Derived terms

• bocão (augmentative), bocona (augmentative)
• boquinha (diminutive)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Venetan bozza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bôt͡sa/
• Hyphenation: bo‧ca

Noun

bȍca f (Cyrillic spelling бо̏ца)

1. bottle

   Synonym: flaša

2. tank (diving cylinder, gas cylinder)

Declension

Declension of boca

	singular	plural
nominative	bȍca	boce
genitive	boce	bȏcā
dative	boci	bocama
accusative	bocu	boce
vocative	boco	boce
locative	boci	bocama
instrumental	bocom	bocama

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish boca, from Latin bucca (“cheek”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈboka/ [ˈbo.ka]

• Audio (Latin America):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -oka
• Syllabification: bo‧ca

Noun

boca f (plural bocas)

1. (anatomy) mouth, oral cavity

   Synonyms: (colloquial) pico, (pejorative) hocico

2. entrance, opening

   Synonym: entrada

   • 2019 May 9, María Belén Etchenique, “Radiografía del subte: una red que crece a paso lento pero suma 200 pasajeros por día”, in El Clarín (Argentina)‎^[1]:

     De lunes a viernes, Buenos Aires se llena y vacía a través de sus bocas de subte.

     From Monday to Friday, Buenos Aires is filled and emptied through its metro entrances.

3. estuary

   Synonyms: estero, estuario

Derived terms

• a boca de cañón
• a boca de costal
• a boca de invierno
• a boca de jarro
• a boca de noche
• a boca llena
• a bocajarro
• a pedir de boca
• abocar
• abreboca
• arpa de boca
• boca a boca
• boca abajo
• boca arriba
• boca de cangrejo
• boca de dragón
• boca de escorpión
• boca de espuerta
• boca de fraile
• boca de fuego
• boca de gachas
• boca de incendio
• boca de la isla
• boca de lobo
• boca de oro
• boca de riego
• boca de risa
• boca de sonido
• boca de verdades
• boca del estómago
• boca del lobo
• boca floja
• boca por boca
• Boca Ratón
• bocabajo
• bocacha
• bocadillo
• bocado
• bocal
• bocarriba
• bocata
• bocón
• boquiabierto
• boquifresco
• boquilla
• boquita
• caballo de buena boca
• callar la boca
• callarse la boca
• cielo de la boca
• cola de boca
• con la boca abierta
• con la boca chica
• con la boca pequeña
• coserse la boca
• de boca en boca
• de la mano a la boca desaparece la sopa
• de manos a boca
• decir esta boca es mía
• desbocar
• embocar
• en boca cerrada no entran moscas
• estar en boca de todos
• hablar por boca de ganso
• irse la fuerza por la boca
• la boca hace juego
• llevarse a la boca
• municiones de boca
• palabra de boca, piedra de honda
• por la boca muere el pez
• por una boca
• punto en boca
• quien tiene boca, se equivoca
• reír a boca llena
• tapabocas
• telón de boca
• tener buena boca
• torcer la boca

 

Related terms

• bucal

 

Further reading

• “boca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28