bocha

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English

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A bocha in Kolkata, India (1790s)

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Etymology

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From Hindi बौचा (baucā).

Noun

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bocha (plural bochas)

  1. (India, historical) A two-door sedan chair.
    • 1825, John Borthwick Gilchrist editing Thomas Williamson as The General East India Guide and Vade Mecum..., Appendix No. IV, pp. 652 & 658:
      When the compilation by Williamson was first examined in order to correct his vulgar mode of spelling Hindoostanee words, a good while since, the number seemed so formidable, that innovation, even from a wrong system to a right one, was then indefinitely suspended; but... it would be unjust to postpone emendation any farther... incorrect... bochah,... correct... bocha.
    • 1868 February 7, "Englishman", "Attempted Assassination of Sir Salar Jung...", Hyderabad Times, Vol. III, p. 41:
      Sir Salar Jung was proceeding to the palace of the Nizam on his bocha, a sort of state palanquin, in order to be present at the customary Eed durbar... when two shots in rapid succession were fired.
    • 1931, Server Jung Bahadur, translated by Bahadur Yar Jung, My Life, page 139:
      [] the Amir-i-Kabir, seated in a "Bocha" (palanquin), had also arrived at the gate of the Royal Palace []
    • 1995, The India Magazine of Her People and Culture, volume 16, page 17:
      [] the bocha, the chair-palanquin []

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Galician

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Bocha ("blister")

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Etymology 1

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Either onomatopoeic[1] or from Latin pustula (pimple), but influenced by Latin botulus (sausage). Compare also bostela.

Noun

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bocha f (plural bochas)

  1. blister
    Synonym: ampola
  2. pimple, pustule
  3. a kind of sausage
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Italian boccia.

Noun

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bocha f (plural bochas)

  1. spherical body
  2. bowling ball

References

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  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “buche I”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Old Occitan

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Etymology

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From Latin bucca. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French boche.

Noun

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bocha f (oblique plural bochas, nominative singular bocha, nominative plural bochas)

  1. mouth (anatomy)

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian boccia.

Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.ʃɐ/, /ˈbɔ.t͡ʃɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.ʃa/, /ˈbɔ.t͡ʃa/

Noun

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bocha f (plural bochas)

  1. (Brazil) bowls; lawn bowls (sport where players roll balls such that they stop as close as possible to another ball)
    Synonym: bowls
  2. (Brazil) bowl (ball thrown by the player in lawn bowls)

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbot͡ʃa/ [ˈbo.t͡ʃa]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -otʃa
  • Syllabification: bo‧cha

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Italian boccia.

Noun

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bocha f (plural bochas)

  1. bowl (ball thrown in the game of bowls)
  2. (in the plural) bowls (sport)

Etymology 2

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Noun

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bocha f (uncountable)

  1. canary clover
    Synonym: boja peluda

Etymology 3

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Noun

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bocha f (plural bochas)

  1. female equivalent of bocho

Adjective

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bocha f

  1. feminine singular of bocho

Etymology 4

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Verb

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bocha

  1. inflection of bochar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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