coca

See also: Coca, COCA, cóca, còca, cocã, cocă, coça, and côca

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊkə/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊkə/
• Rhymes: -əʊkə

Etymology 1

The leaves and fruit of a coca plant.

Borrowed from Spanish coca, from Quechua kuka, perhaps from Aymara.

Noun

coca (usually uncountable, plural cocas)

1. Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
2. The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine and used as aphrodisiac in the past.

Derived terms

• anticoca
• Coca-Cola
• cocaethylene
• cocain
• cocaine
• coca paste
• coca wine

 

Descendants

• → Chinese: 古柯 (gǔkē)

Translations

any of four cultivated plants of the family Erythroxylaceae

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 古柯 (zh) (gǔkē)

• Hindi: कोका (hi) m (kokā)
• Irish: cóca m
• Japanese: コカ (koka)
• Marathi: कोका n (kokā)
• Mongolian: кокайны мод (kokajny mod)
• Polish: koka (pl) f
• Romanian: coca (ro) m
• Russian: ко́ка (ru) f (kóka)
• Turkish: koka (tr)

the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)

• Bulgarian: кока (bg) f (koka)
• Czech: kokainovník pravý
• Dutch: coca (nl) f
• Finnish: kokapensaat
• French: coca (fr)
• German: Cocablatt n, Koka (de) n
• Hebrew: קוקה f (koka)
• Hindi: कोका (hi) m (kokā)
• Ido: kokao (io)
• Irish: cóca m
• Italian: coca (it) f
• Japanese: コカ (koka)
• Khmer: កូកា (koukaa)
• Marathi: कोका n (kokā)
• Mongolian: кока (koka)
• Polish: koka (pl) f
• Portuguese: coca (pt) f
• Romanian: coca (ro) m
• Spanish: coca (es) f
• Swedish: kokabuske
• Turkish: koka ağacı

Further reading

• Erythroxylum coca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Erythroxylum coca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Erythroxylum coca on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Catalan coca. Doublet of cake.

Noun

coca (plural cocas)

1. A pastry typically made and consumed in the Catalan-speaking areas.
   • 2015 April 17, Lisa Abend, “Sweet and Salty: Majorca’s Traditional Cuisine”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     A coca, a type of flat bread normally topped with roasted vegetables, was capped by strands of briny whitebait.

Further reading

• coca (pastry) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• caco-

Catalan

Etymology 1

coca de Sant Joan

Borrowed from Old Dutch coca, from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ, related to English cake.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

coca f (plural coques)

1. (cooking) coca (pastry typically made and consumed in the Catalan-speaking areas)

Derived terms

• coca bamba
• coca de llanda

Descendants

• → English: coca

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Quechua kuka.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

coca f (plural coques)

1. (botany) coca (Erythroxylum coca)
2. (colloquial) coke (cocaine)

   Synonym: cocaïna

Derived terms

• cocaïna

Etymology 3

Inherited from Old Catalan coca, from Old French coque, ultimately from Latin caudica (“small ship made of tree trunks”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

coca f (plural coques)

1. (nautical, historical) cog (type of sailing ship)

Further reading

• “coca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “coca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• coca (pastís) on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca
• Category:coques on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish coca, from Quechua kuka, perhaps from Aymara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.kaː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: co‧ca

Noun

coca f (plural coca's)

1. coca, plant of the family Erythroxylaceae
2. (uncountable) coca, consumable leaves of these plants

Derived terms

• cocaïne

Related terms

• coke

Descendants

• → Indonesian: koka

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ka/

• Audio (Paris):

  (file)

Etymology 1

Apocope of Coca-Cola

Noun

coca m (plural cocas)

1. Coke (serving of Coca-Cola)
2. cola; (serving of any cola drink)
   • 2019 January 17, Amélie Petitdemange, “Dry January, Lundi Vert… des Millennials de plus en plus healthy ?”, in Les Echos:

     “Quand tu commandes un coca dans un bar, t’as l’air bizarre”, abonde Camille, étudiante en journalisme.

     "When you order a Coke in a bar, you look weird," agrees Camille, a journalism student.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish, from Quechua.

Noun

coca m (plural cocas)

1. coca (plant)
2. (informal) cocaine

Further reading

• “coca”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Coca parade, Redondela, Galicia

Etymology 1

From cocatriz, probably from Old French cocatriz, from Latin calcātrīx.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔka̝/

Noun

coca m (plural cocas)

1. (mythology, folklore) cockatrice, in Galician folklore a water creature

   Synonym: cocatriz

   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Archivum, page 134:

     de baleas, de cocas, de orças et de todoslos outros pescados quea ẽnas agoas

     of whales, of cockatrices, of orcas and of all the other fishes that are in the waters

   • 1441, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 145:

     que ordenaba e mandaba que andase logo a dita confraría de Santa Oufémea depúus a confraría de Santa María a Madre con sua danza de espadas e çirios e outros jogos algúus, se os tebesen, saluo que o jogo da qoqa que andase aalende das confrarías de San Sebastián e de San Migeel, junto con a confraría dos carniçeyros, por que a dita coqa he escandallosa

     they ordered and commanded that the guild of Saint Euphemia be the firt [in the parade], then the guild of Saint Mary Mother, with its sword dance and candles and other amusements, if they have any, with the exception of the game of the cockatrice, which should go after the guilds of Saint Sebastian and Saint Michael, with the butcher's guild, because said cockatrice is scandalous

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish, from Quechua.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔka̝/

Noun

coca f (plural cocas)

1. coca (plant)
2. (informal, drugs) cocaine

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔka̝/

Noun

coca f (plural cocas)

1. Alternative form of coco
2. claw (pincer of a crustacean)

Etymology 4

From a Germanic language (compare English cog).

Noun

coca f (plural cocas)

1. (historical) cog (a clinker-built, flat-bottomed, square-rigged, single-masted mediaeval ship of burden)

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “coca”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “coq”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “coca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “coca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “coca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.kɑ/

Noun

cōca

1. genitive plural of cōc

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.kɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɔkɐ
• Hyphenation: co‧ca

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish coca.

Noun

coca f (plural cocas)

1. coca (cultivated plant of the family Erythroxylaceae)
2. coca (dried leaf of Erythroxylon coca)

Etymology 2

Ellipsis of Coca-Cola.

Noun

coca f (plural cocas)

1. Coke

Etymology 3

Clipping of cocaína.

Noun

coca f (uncountable)

1. (slang) coke (cocaine)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French coca, from Spanish, from Quechua.

Noun

coca f (uncountable)

1. coca plant

See also

• cocă

Southern Ndebele

Verb

-coca

1. to chat, to discuss

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoka/ [ˈko.ka]
• Rhymes: -oka
• Syllabification: co‧ca

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Quechua koka or Aymara kuka (“coca”).

Noun

coca f (plural cocas)

1. coca (any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America)
2. coca (the dried leaf of one of these plants)

Derived terms

• cocaína
• cocalero
• coquero

 

Descendants

• → English: coca
  • → Chinese: 古柯 (gǔkē)

Etymology 2

Clipping of cocaína (“cocaine”).

Noun

coca f (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) coke, cocaine

   Synonyms: cocaína, perico, farlopa

   Coordinate terms: meta, hierba

Etymology 3

Clipping of English Coca-Cola.

Noun

coca f (plural cocas)

1. Coke (Coca-Cola, a trademarked soft drink)

Further reading

• “coca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Swazi

Etymology

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Verb

-coca

1. to chat

Inflection

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Swedish

Alternative forms

• kocka

Etymology

From Coca-Cola.

Noun

coca c

1. (slang, Scania, countable, uncountable) coke (cola-based soft drink)

Usage notes

Pronounced with /ɔ/ instead of /u/, as expected from the alternative form.

Declension

Declension of coca

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	coca	cocas
	definite	cocan	cocans
plural	indefinite	cocor	cocors
	definite	cocorna	cocornas

References

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Vietnamese

Noun

coca

1. Alternative spelling of côca.

Xhosa

Etymology

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Verb

-coca

1. to become clean

Inflection

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