oca

Clipping of English Ocaina.

oca

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Ocaina.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Ocaina terms

Borrowed from Spanish oca, from Quechua uqa.

oca (countable and uncountable, plural ocas)

1. Any of species Oxalis tuberosa (syn. Oxalis crenata), which bear edible tubers.

• Oca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Oxalis tuberosa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Oxalis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• AOC, CAO, COA, Cao, CoA, OAC, coa

• IPA^(key): /ˈoka/ [ˈo.ka]
• Rhymes: -oka
• Syllabification: o‧ca

oca f (plural oques)

1. Western form of ocla

• “oca”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-jòka (“to roast, to burn”).

-oca

1. to bake
2. to burn

• Reverend E. Hoch (1998), Bemba - English/English - Bemba‎^[1], Hippocrene Books, page 77

Inherited from Old Catalan oca, from Late Latin auca, syncopated from *avica, from classical Latin avis (“bird”). Compare Occitan auca, French oie, Spanish oca.

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

• Audio (Valencia):

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oca f (plural oques)

1. goose

• “oca”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “oca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “oca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “oca”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

From Classical Persian خْوَاجَه (xwāja).

oca

1. teacher

   Synonyms: muallim, müderris

• “oca”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Inherited from Late Latin auca, syncope of *avica, from Classical Latin avis (“bird”). Compare Catalan, Spanish, Venetan, and Sicilian oca, French oie, Occitan auca, Romansh auca, ocha, Friulian ocje, Dalmatian jauca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.ka/
• Rhymes: -ɔka
• Hyphenation: ò‧ca

• Audio:

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oca f (plural oche, diminutive ochina or ochétta, augmentative ocóna, pejorative ocàccia)

1. goose; gander (male)
2. (figurative) goose, silly goose, airhead (female)

• ocarina
• ocaggine
• pelle d'oca
• volpoca

• papero

• oca in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• oca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• cao

• IPA^(key): /ˈoɡə/

oca

1. third-person singular masculine dative of oc

• occa, occo, oco

Univerbation of oc (“at”) +‎ -a (relative pronoun)

oca·

1. at which, at whom

oca (triggers lenition in the masculine and neuter singular, h-prothesis in the feminine singular, and eclipsis (nasalization) in the plural)

1. contraction of oc (“at”) +‎ a (“his/her/its/their”)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:oca.

oca

1. alternative form of occo (“at him/it”)

From Old Tupi oka (“house”). Compare Paraguayan Guarani óga.

oca f (plural ocas)

1. a Native American hut, especially one made from plant material such as bamboo, tree trunks, straw and palm leaves

From oco (“hollow”).

• Hyphenation: o‧ca

oca f (plural ocas)

1. cavity (excavated hollow)

   Synonyms: cavidade, buraco

oca

1. feminine singular of oco

• ôca (obsolete)

From ocra.

oca f (plural ocas)

1. (dated, colloquial) alternative form of ocra (“ochre clay”)

From Spanish oca, from Quechua uqa.

oca f (plural ocas)

1. oca (Oxalis tuberosa, a plant grown for its edible tuber)

From Ottoman Turkish اوقه.

oca f (plural ocas)

1. (historical, rare) oka (Ottoman unit of weight)

• oka

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

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish اوقه (okka).

• IPA^(key): /oˈka/

oca f (plural ocale)

1. weight of about three pounds
2. liquid measure of about three pints

• auca (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan)
• ocha (Puter, Vallader)

Inherited from Late Latin auca, syncope of *avica, from Classical Latin avis (“bird”).

oca f (plural ocas)

1. (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) goose

From Late Latin auca, syncope of *avica, from classical Latin avis (“bird”). Compare Catalan, Spanish, Venetan, and Sicilian oca, French oie, Occitan auca, Romansh auca, ocha, Friulian ocje, Dalmatian jauca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈoka/

oca f (plural ocas)

1. goose

oca (Cyrillic spelling оца)

1. genitive/accusative singular of otac

• IPA^(key): /ɔt͡sa/, [ˈɔt͡sa]
• Rhymes: -ɔt͡sa
• Hyphenation: o‧ca

oca

1. genitive/accusative singular of oco

• IPA^(key): /ˈoka/ [ˈo.ka]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -oka
• Syllabification: o‧ca

Inherited from Old Spanish oca, from Late Latin auca (“goose”), syncope of *avica, from Latin avis (“bird”).

oca f (plural ocas)

1. (chiefly Spain) goose, especially of the domestic European variety and with a white or grey plumage

   Synonyms: ánsar, ganso

Borrowed from Quechua uqa.

oca f (plural ocas)

1. Oxalis tuberosa, an edible tuber

• → English: oca

• “oca”, 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

• -ocha

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-jòka (“to burn, to roast”).

-oca (infinitive koca)

1. (transitive) to burn, to roast

• -oceka (“to be burnt”)

• William Y. Turner (1996), Tumbuka/Tonga-English and English - Tumbuka/Tonga Dictionary‎^[2], Central Africana Limited, pages 97, 183