hacha

hacha f (plural haches)

1. axe (tool)

hacha

1. (Old Chamorro) one (in general)

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hacha

1. third-person singular past historic of hacher

• IPA^(key): /ˈat͡ʃa/ [ˈa.t͡ʃa]
• Rhymes: -atʃa
• Syllabification: ha‧cha

Inherited from Old Spanish facha, borrowed from Old French hache, of Germanic origin.[1]

hacha f (plural hachas)

1. axe, hatchet (tool for felling trees or chopping wood)
2. (colloquial) ace, wizard (someone who is especially skilled or unusually talented in a particular field)

• Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.

  el hacha, un hacha

• They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

• → Cebuano: atsa
• → Isthmus Mixe: achë
• → Morelos Nahuatl: acha
• → Rayón Zoque: jacha
• → Tezoatlán Mixtec: achá
• → Western Apache: acha
• → Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl: acha

Inherited from Old Spanish facha, from a Vulgar Latin *fascla, from syncopation of *fascula, presumably from a crossing of Latin facula and fascis.[2] Doublet of fácula, a borrowing. Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese facha.

hacha f (plural hachas)

1. a kind of torch or large candle (often with four sticks)
2. a kind of wick or fuse (often made with esparto grass and tar), which does not go out easily in the wind
3. bundle of straw tied up like a strip and often used to help cover huts or other field constructions

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

hacha

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

• “hacha”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014