chocoya

Spanish

Etymology

From chocoyo.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃoˈkoʝa/ [t͡ʃoˈko.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /t͡ʃoˈkoʝa/ [t͡ʃoˈko.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /t͡ʃoˈkoʃa/ [t͡ʃoˈko.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /t͡ʃoˈkoʒa/ [t͡ʃoˈko.ʒa]

• Rhymes: -oʝa
• Syllabification: cho‧co‧ya

Adjective

chocoya m or f (masculine and feminine plural chocoyas)

1. (colloquial, Nicaragua, of fruit, especially of oranges) sour

   Synonym: agrio

Noun

chocoya f (plural chocoyas) (colloquial, El Salvador)

1. female pacific parakeet
2. head

   Synonym: cabeza

Further reading

• “chocoya”, 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
• “chocoya”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010