vaca
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌveɪ.keɪ/
Synonyms
- leave, holiday; see also Thesaurus:vacation
Asturian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbaka/, [ˈba.ka]
Catalan
Pronunciation
Noun
vaca f (plural vaques)
- cow
- torpedo (ray of the genus Torpedo)
- painted comber (fish of species Serranus scriba)
- Synonyms: serrana, vaca serrana
Further reading
- “vaca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “vaca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “vaca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “vaca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dalmatian
Galician

Vacas
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese vaca, from Latin vacca.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbakɐ], (in sandhi) [ˈβakɐ]
Derived terms
References
- “vaca” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
- “vaca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “vaca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “vaca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “vaca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “vaca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈva.ka/
- Rhymes: -aka
- Hyphenation: và‧ca
Verb
vaca
- inflection of vacare:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Latgalian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈvat͡sa]
- Hyphenation: va‧ca
Adjective
vaca
- inflection of vacs:
- indefinite genitive singular masculine
- indefinite nominative singular feminine
Latin
Pali
Alternative forms
Alternative forms
- 𑀯𑀘 (Brahmi script)
- वच (Devanagari script)
- ৰচ (Bengali script)
- වච (Sinhalese script)
- ဝစ or ဝၸ (Burmese script)
- วจ or วะจะ (Thai script)
- ᩅᨧ (Tai Tham script)
- ວຈ or ວະຈະ (Lao script)
- វច (Khmer script)
- 𑅇𑄌 (Chakma script)
Etymology
Inherited from Sanskrit वच (vaca).
Declension
Declension table of "vaca" (masculine)
Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative (first) | vaco | vacā |
Accusative (second) | vacaṃ | vace |
Instrumental (third) | vacena | vacehi or vacebhi |
Dative (fourth) | vacassa or vacāya or vacatthaṃ | vacānaṃ |
Ablative (fifth) | vacasmā or vacamhā or vacā | vacehi or vacebhi |
Genitive (sixth) | vacassa | vacānaṃ |
Locative (seventh) | vacasmiṃ or vacamhi or vace | vacesu |
Vocative (calling) | vaca | vacā |
Declension table of "vaca" (neuter)
Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative (first) | vacaṃ | vacāni |
Accusative (second) | vacaṃ | vacāni |
Instrumental (third) | vacena | vacehi or vacebhi |
Dative (fourth) | vacassa or vacāya or vacatthaṃ | vacānaṃ |
Ablative (fifth) | vacasmā or vacamhā or vacā | vacehi or vacebhi |
Genitive (sixth) | vacassa | vacānaṃ |
Locative (seventh) | vacasmiṃ or vacamhi or vace | vacesu |
Vocative (calling) | vaca | vacāni |
Piedmontese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvaka/
Portuguese

vaca
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈva.kɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): [ˈβa.kɐ]
- Rhymes: -akɐ
- Hyphenation: va‧ca
Etymology 1
From Old Portuguese vaca, from Latin vacca.
Noun
vaca f (plural vacas)
- cow
- (derogatory, slang) a promiscuous woman; bitch
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vadia
Verb
vaca
- inflection of vacar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
References
- “vaca” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
- “vaca” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
- “vaca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Romanian
Spanish

vaca
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbaka/ [ˈba.ka]
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aka
- Syllabification: va‧ca
Noun
vaca f (plural vacas)
- cow (adult female of the species Bos taurus)
- beef
- leather
- Synonym: cuero de vaca
- (derogatory, informal) cow (woman considered unpleasant, particularly one considered fat)
- (Chile) collection
- Synonym: recaudación
Derived terms
Descendants
Descendants
- → Asi: baka
- → Aymara: waka
- → Bikol Central: baka
- → Binukid: baka
- → Bolinao: baka
- → Cebuano: baka
- → Chickasaw: waaka'
- → Chamicuro: waka
- → Chamorro: guäkä
- → Cherokee: ᏩᎦ (waga), ᏩᎧ (waka)
- → Hiligaynon: baka
- → Ilocano: baka
- → Kagayanen: baka
- → Kavalan: baka
- → Limos Kalinga: baka
- → Mapudungun: waka
- → Northern Catanduanes Bicolano: baka
- → Paraguayan Guaraní: vaka
- → Quechua: waka
- → Tagalog: baka
- → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: böca
- → Waray-Waray: baka
- ⇒ Spanish: vacas pl
Verb
vaca
- inflection of vacar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “vaca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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