foca

From Latin phōca.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.kə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.ka/

foca f (plural foques)

1. (mammals) seal

   Synonyms: llop marí, llop de mar, vell marí, serena

• “foca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From foco (“hollow”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɔkɐ]

foca f (plural focas)

1. (regional, dated) hole, piercing
   • c. 1780, Anonymous, Cincuenta décimas contra Cernadas:

     Mordesme en Papeliños,

     que leeron moitas Xentes:

     mordes me, chantasme os dentes

     chantame agora os focinos:

     si lendo estes meus termiños

     fixères xestos, ou mocas,

     ê contra min te desuocas,

     ê con Mocas ques ferir me,

     e focas no Corpo abrirme,

     Chantame as mocas nas focas.

     You bite me in little papers

     that many people have read

     You bite me, thrust you teeth in me

     Thrust now your snout

     If reading these my terms

     You do gestures or grimaces

     and against me you run off at the mouth

     and with clubs you want to injure me

     and holes in my body open

     Thrust the clubs into my holes

From Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē, “seal, sea dog”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɔkɐ]

foca f (plural focas)

1. (mammals) seal

• “foca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “foca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

From Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē). Compare French phoque.

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

foca f (plural foche)

1. (mammals) seal

   Synonym: vecchio marino

• foca monaca
• fochiera

• foca on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

• Hyphenation: fo‧ca

From Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē, “seal, sea dog”).

foca f (plural focas)

1. (mammals) seal

• leão-marinho
• morsa

foca

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

• foca on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

• IPA^(key): [ˈfoka]

foca f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of focă

From Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē, “seal, sea dog”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoka/ [ˈfo.ka]

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• Rhymes: -oka
• Syllabification: fo‧ca

foca f (plural focas)

1. seal (mammal)

   Synonyms: lobo marino, lobo del mar

2. (colloquial) whale (large, especially fat, person)

• → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: foca

• “foca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from Spanish foca.

foca (plural focas)

1. seal (animal)
   • 1964, Yulcöme [Animals]‎, México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en cooperación con la Dirección General de Asuntos Indígenas de la Secretaría de Educación Pública, page 71:

     Ini foca nemi ipa Asia, Miexijco hua ipa Estado Unidos.

     The seal lives in Asia, Mexico and in the United States.