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See also: bòcha
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]bocha (plural bochas)
- (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 […]
- 1825, John Borthwick Gilchrist editing Thomas Williamson as The General East India Guide and Vade Mecum..., Appendix No. IV, pp. 652 & 658:
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References
[edit]- Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “bocha”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].
Galician
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[edit]Either onomatopoeic[1] or from Latin pustula (“pimple”), but influenced by Latin botulus (“sausage”). Compare also bostela.
Noun
[edit]bocha f (plural bochas)
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[edit]bocha f (plural bochas)
- spherical body
- bowling ball
References
[edit]- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “bocha”, 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), “bocha 'vexiga'”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bocha”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- ^ 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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[edit]From Latin bucca. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French boche.
Noun
[edit]bocha f (oblique plural bochas, nominative singular bocha, nominative plural bochas)
- mouth (anatomy)
Portuguese
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Noun
[edit]bocha f (plural bochas)
- (Brazil) bowls; lawn bowls (sport where players roll balls such that they stop as close as possible to another ball)
- Synonym: bowls
- (Brazil) bowl (ball thrown by the player in lawn bowls)
Spanish
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[edit]bocha f (plural bochas)
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]bocha f (uncountable)
- canary clover
- Synonym: boja peluda
Etymology 3
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[edit]bocha f (plural bochas)
- female equivalent of bocho
Adjective
[edit]bocha f
Etymology 4
[edit]Verb
[edit]bocha
- inflection of bochar:
Further reading
[edit]- “bocha”, 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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