toca

toca

1. third-person singular present indicative of tocar
2. second-person singular imperative of tocar

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɔ.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈtɔ.ka]

toca

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoːka/
• Rhymes: -aci

tōca

1. (transitive) to bury, to plant something

toca

1. name

toca

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

• Rhymes: -ɔkɐ
• Hyphenation: to‧ca

Uncertain, with multiple theories:

• from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia;[1]
• from Spanish tueca;[2]
• from Old Tupi toka (“his/her/its house”). See oka (“house”).

toca f (plural tocas)

1. den, burrow

   Synonyms: covil, furna, lura

   • 1919, Monteiro Lobato, Jeca Tatú: Vida e costumes‎, page 8:

     Sua casa de sapé e lama faz rir aos bichos que moram em toca e gargalhar ao joão de barro.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (figurative) refuge, hiding place
3. (figurative, colloquial) bedroom

Deverbal from tocar (“to touch”).

toca m (uncountable)

1. (Ceará) tag (children's chasing game)

   Synonym: pega-pega

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

toca

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

• “toca” in Dicionário Online de Português.
• “toca” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “toca” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “toca” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “toca” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

• acto-, cato, cota, taco-, taco, octã, octa-

Possibly from Vulgar Latin *toccāre or *tuccāre (“to knock, strike, offend”), possibly of Germanic or onomatopoeic origin. Compare French toucher, toquer, Italian toccare, Portuguese tocar, Spanish tocar.

a toca (third-person singular present toacă, past participle tocat) 1st conj.

1. to chop, mince, hack
2. to bother, pester, nag

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoka/ [ˈt̪o.ka]
• Rhymes: -oka
• Syllabification: to‧ca

Borrowed from Italian toca, tocca (“veil, silkcloth”), from Lombard toh (“headscarf”), from Lombardic *tuoh, from Proto-West Germanic *dōk (“cloth”). Compare French toque, of similar origin.

toca f (plural tocas)

1. kerchief, turban cloth (so to say)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

toca

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

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈto.t͡ʃa]

toca

1. wax
2. a candle

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh