boca

From Latin bucca.

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

boca f (plural bocas)

1. (anatomy) mouth

From Latin bucca.

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

boca f (plural boques)

1. (anatomy) mouth

Inherited from Latin bucca.

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

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -oka
• Hyphenation: bo‧ca

boca f (plural boques)

1. (anatomy) mouth

• “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.

From Old Galician-Portuguese boca, from Latin bucca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈboka/ [ˈbo.kɐ]

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• Rhymes: -oka
• Hyphenation: bo‧ca

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

• ceo da boca

• 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

Borrowed from English voucher.

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

bōcā̀ f (plural bōcōcī, possessed form bōcàr̃)

1. financial voucher

From Old Occitan, from Latin bucca.

• IPA^(key): /buko/

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boca f (plural bocas)

1. (anatomy) mouth

• IPA^(key): /ˈboː.kɑ/

bōca

1. genitive plural of bōc

From Latin bucca (“cheek”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈboka/

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."

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

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

• Rhymes: -okɐ
• Hyphenation: bo‧ca

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.

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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

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

From Venetan bozza.

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

bȍca f (Cyrillic spelling бо̏ца)

1. bottle

   Synonym: flaša

2. tank (diving cylinder, gas cylinder)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈboka/ [ˈbo.ka]

• Audio (Latin America):

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• Rhymes: -oka
• Syllabification: bo‧ca

boca f (plural bocas)

1. (anatomy) mouth, oral cavity

   Synonyms: (colloquial) pico, (pejorative) hocico

2. entrance, opening

   Synonym: entrada

   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 189:

     Las cocineras, para evitar que el Demonio eche a perder la comida, hacen la señal de la cruz sobre la boca de la olla.

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   • 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

• “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