archa

Learned borrowing from Latin arca.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈarxa]

archa f

1. ark (the ship built by Noah)

• “archa”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “archa”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Medieval respelling.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈar.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈar.ka]

archa f (genitive archae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) alternative spelling of arca

First-declension noun.

Learned borrowing from Latin arca.^[1][2][3] First attested in the 15th century.^[4]

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /arxa/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /arxa/

archa f

1. (religion) arch (chest, box, coffer, safe)
   • 1930 [c. 1455], “II Par”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka)‎^{transliteration, transcription}, 8, 11:

     Archa bosza bila wiszla do nyego (ingressa est in eam arca domini)

     [Archa boża była wyszła do niego (ingressa est in eam arca domini)]

• Polish: arka
• Silesian: arka

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “(arka) archa”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈar.xa/

archa m animacy unattested

1. Middle Polish form of arka

archa

1. harpoon

• Chicham: Dictionario Enciclopédico Shuar-Castellano

Borrowed from Middle High German archa.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /arxa/, [ˈarxa]
• Rhymes: -arxa
• Hyphenation: ar‧cha

archa f

1. Ark (the ship built by Noah)
2. in the expression archa zmluvy: Ark of the Covenant
3. ark (a gothic winged altar)

• “archa”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Borrowed from German Arche.

• IPA^(key): /ˈar.xa/
• Rhymes: -arxa
• Syllabification: ar‧cha

archa f

1. (religion) ark (Noah’s ship)

• Lorentz, Friedrich (1908), “ãrχă”, in Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎^[2] (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 6

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *artuč (“juniper”)

• Hyphenation: ar‧cha

archa (plural archalar)

1. juniper

• “archa“ in izoh.uz