mochila
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish mochila. Doublet of macheer.
Noun
[edit]mochila (plural mochilas)
- (US, especially Western US) A large leather flap that covers the saddle tree.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mochila”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Asturian
[edit]Noun
[edit]mochila f (plural mochiles)
- backpack (worn on a person's back, e.g., for hiking)
Portuguese
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish mochila,[1] from mochil (“messenger, letter carrier”), from Basque motxil, diminutive form of motil (“boy”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: mo‧chi‧la
Noun
[edit]mochila f (plural mochilas)
References
[edit]- ^ “mochila”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From mochil (“errand boy”), borrowed from Basque motxil, diminutive form of motil, mutil (“boy”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mochila f (plural mochilas)
Derived terms
[edit]- mochilero (“backpacker”)
Descendants
[edit]- → Portuguese: mochila
Further reading
[edit]- “mochila”, 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
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