hucha

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See also: húchá

French

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Verb

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hucha

  1. third-person singular past historic of hucher

Galician

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese ucha (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), borrowed from Old French huche, from Medieval Latin hutica, perhaps of Germanic origin.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈut͡ʃa/ [ˈu.t͡ʃɐ]
  • Rhymes: -utʃa
  • Hyphenation: hu‧cha

Noun

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hucha f (plural huchas)

  1. chest
    Synonyms: arca, baúl, cofre
    • 1310, Anselmo López Carreira, editor, Ourense medieval: documentos e arquivos, d. 75:
      Iten lle mando dous mill mrs. de seysseens e de coroados que seen na hucha verde dos signaes daguyas que se no dito moesteiro de Santa Clara e a plata que en ela se.
      Item, I send [to the monastery of Saint Claire] two thousand maravedies which are in the green chest with signs of eagles which is in the aforementioned monastery of Saint Claire, with the silver which is in it
    • 1348, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 152:
      acharedes en casa na mia ucha cinquoeenta uaras de lenço que seen ordidas et cinquo maranas de fiado cruu et tres de cozido
      you'll find in my home inside my chest fifty yards of woven cloth and five skeins of raw thread and three of boiled
  2. bin
    Synonyms: arca, tulla

References

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  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “hucha”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Quechua

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Noun

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hucha

  1. guilt, fault, sin, offense, crime
  2. heavy energy (created by humans)

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See also

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Spanish

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 hucha on Spanish Wikipedia

Etymology

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Borrowed from French huche.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈut͡ʃa/ [ˈu.t͡ʃa]
  • Rhymes: -utʃa
  • Syllabification: hu‧cha

Noun

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hucha f (plural huchas)

  1. (Spain) piggy bank
    Synonyms: (Latin America, Philippines, Canary Islands, Andalusia) alcancía, (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Peru, Uruguay) chanchito, (Mexico, Venezuela) cochinito, (Guatemala) cochito, (Colombia) marranito, (Mexico) puerquito, (El Salvador) tunquito

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