atocha

Portuguese

Verb

atocha

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

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic الطوجة (aṭ-ṭáwča), from an Iberian substrate language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈtot͡ʃa/ [aˈt̪o.t͡ʃa]
• Rhymes: -otʃa
• Syllabification: a‧to‧cha

Noun

atocha f (plural atochas)

1. esparto (grass)

   Synonym: esparto

Derived terms

• atochada
• atochal
• atochar
• atochero
• atochón
• atochuela

 

Further reading

• “atocha”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 220