hucha

• Homophones: huchas, huchât

hucha

1. third-person singular past historic of hucher

From Old Galician-Portuguese ucha (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), borrowed from Old French huche, from Medieval Latin hutica, perhaps of Germanic origin.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈut͡ʃa/ [ˈu.t͡ʃɐ]
• Rhymes: -utʃa
• Hyphenation: hu‧cha

hucha f (plural huchas)

1. chest

   Synonyms: arca, baúl, cofre

   • 1310, Anselmo López Carreira, editor, Ourense medieval: documentos e arquivos, d. 75:

     Iten lle mando dous mill mrs. de seysseens e de coroados que seen na hucha verde dos signaes daguyas que se no dito moesteiro de Santa Clara e a plata que en ela se.

     Item, I send [to the monastery of Saint Claire] two thousand maravedies which are in the green chest with signs of eagles which is in the aforementioned monastery of Saint Claire, with the silver which is in it

   • 1348, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 152:

     acharedes en casa na mia ucha cinquoeenta uaras de lenço que seen ordidas et cinquo maranas de fiado cruu et tres de cozido

     you'll find in my home inside my chest fifty yards of woven cloth and five skeins of raw thread and three of boiled

2. bin

   Synonyms: arca, tulla

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ucha”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “hucha”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “hucha” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “hucha”, 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), “hucha”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “hucha”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

hucha

1. guilt, fault, sin, offense, crime
2. heavy energy (created by humans)

• huchakuy

Borrowed from French huche.

• IPA^(key): /ˈut͡ʃa/ [ˈu.t͡ʃa]
• Rhymes: -utʃa
• Syllabification: hu‧cha

hucha f (plural huchas)

1. (Spain) piggy bank

   Synonyms: (Latin America, Philippines, Canary Islands, Andalusia) alcancía, (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Peru, Uruguay) chanchito, (Mexico, Venezuela) cochinito, (Guatemala) cochito, (Colombia) marranito, (Mexico) puerquito, (El Salvador) tunquito

• “hucha”, 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