bocha

• bochah, boçhah, bocho, boutcha

From Hindi बौचा (baucā).

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 […]

• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “bocha”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

• bosa

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔt͡ʃa̝/

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

bocha f (plural bochas)

1. blister

   Synonym: ampola

2. pimple, pustule
3. a kind of sausage

• boche
• bochecha

Borrowed from Italian boccia, from Vulgar Latin *buttia, borrowed from Byzantine Greek βούττια (boúttia, plural of βούττιον (boúttion)), from Ancient Greek βοῦττις (boûttis), possibly borrowed from Pre-Greek.

bocha f (plural bochas)

1. spherical body
2. bowling ball

• 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

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

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

1. mouth (anatomy)

• boccia (Portugal)
• botcha (Brazil)

Borrowed from Italian boccia, from Vulgar Latin *buttia, borrowed from Byzantine Greek βούττια (boúttia, plural of βούττιον (boúttion)), from Ancient Greek βοῦττις (boûttis), possibly borrowed from Pre-Greek.

• Rhymes: -ɔʃɐ, -ɔt͡ʃɐ
• Hyphenation: bo‧cha

bocha f (plural bochas) (Brazil)

1. bocce

   Meronym: cancha

   • 2023 March 7, Otávio Timm, “Bar e Cancha Venzon: conheça a história de um dos estabelecimentos mais populares de Brusque [Bar e Cancha Venzon: get to know one of Brusque's most popular business]”, in O Município‎^[2], Brusque, archived from the original on 17 January 2026:

     Com duas canchas de bocha, a bebida gelada é apenas um dos atrativos do espaço. As quadras são disputadas e sempre revelam grandes talentos do esporte.

     With two bocce courts, cold drinks are only one of the place's attractions. The venues are disputed and always reveal great talents for the sport

2. bocce ball

• “bocha”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “bocha”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈbot͡ʃa/ [ˈbo.t͡ʃa]

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• Rhymes: -otʃa
• Syllabification: bo‧cha

Borrowed from Italian boccia, from Vulgar Latin *buttia, borrowed from Byzantine Greek βούττια (boúttia, plural of βούττιον (boúttion)), from Ancient Greek βοῦττις (boûttis), possibly borrowed from Pre-Greek.

bocha f (plural bochas)

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

bocha f (uncountable)

1. canary clover

   Synonym: boja peluda

bocha f (plural bochas)

1. female equivalent of bocho

bocha f

1. feminine singular of bocho

bocha

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

• “bocha”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025