foca

Borrowed from Latin phōca.

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

foca f (plural foques)

1. (mammals) seal

   Synonyms: llop marí, llop de mar, vell marí, serena

• “foca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔka/ [ˈfɔ.kɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɔka

From foco (“hollow”).

foca f (plural focas)

1. hole, piercing
   • c. 1780, Anonymous, Cincuenta décimas contra Cernadas:

     Mordesme en Papeliños,
     que leeron moitas Xentes:
     mordes me, chantasme os dentes
     chantame agora os focinos:
     si lendo estes meus termiños
     fixères xestos, ou mocas,
     ê contra min te desuocas,
     ê con Mocas ques ferir me,
     e focas no Corpo abrirme,
     Chantame as mocas nas focas.

     You bite me in little papers
     that many people have read
     You bite me, thrust you teeth in me
     Thrust now your snout
     If reading these my terms
     You do gestures or grimaces
     and against me you run off at the mouth
     and with clubs you want to injure me
     and holes in my body open
     Thrust the clubs into my holes

Learned borrowing from Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē, “seal, sea dog”).

foca f (plural focas)

1. (mammals) seal

• “foca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “foca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “foca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē). Compare French phoque.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.ka/
• Rhymes: -ɔka
• Hyphenation: fò‧ca

foca f (plural foche)

1. (mammals) seal

   Synonym: vecchio marino

• foca monaca
• fochiera

• foca on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

• Rhymes: -ɔkɐ

• Hyphenation: fo‧ca

From Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē, “seal, sea dog”).

foca f (plural focas)

1. (mammals) seal

foca m or f by sense (plural focas)

1. (Brazil, journalism) a journalist at the start of his/her career
   • 1989, Paulo Rangel, O Assassinato do Conto Policial, FTD, →ISBN, page 10:

     — Por falar nisso, sabe o que é um foca?
     — Sei — disse Cotoxó.
     — Que é? Diga!
     — Foca é um repórter em início de carreira, que ganha mal, se veste mal, come mal, escreve mal, só diz bobagens, não tem cultura, é tido como idiota e um dia se torna chefe da redação.

     “By the way, do you know what a seal is?”
     “Yes”, said Cotoxó.
     “What is it? Tell me!”
     “A seal is a reporter at the beginning of his career, who earns badly, dresses badly, eats badly, writes badly, says nothing but nonsense, has no culture, is considered an idiot and one day becomes head of the newsroom.”

2. an avaricious individual

• leão-marinho
• morsa

foca

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

• foca on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

• IPA^(key): [ˈfoka]

foca f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of focă

From Latin phōca, from Ancient Greek φώκη (phṓkē, “seal, sea dog”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoka/ [ˈfo.ka]

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• Rhymes: -oka
• Syllabification: fo‧ca

foca f (plural focas)

1. seal (mammal)

   Synonyms: lobo marino, lobo del mar

2. (colloquial) whale (large, especially fat, person)

• → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: foca

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

Borrowed from Spanish foca.

foca (plural focas)

1. seal (animal)
   • 1964, Yulcöme [Animals]‎, México, D.F.: El Instituto Lingüístico de Verano en cooperación con la Dirección General de Asuntos Indígenas de la Secretaría de Educación Pública, page 71:

     Ini foca nemi ipa Asia, Miexijco hua ipa Estado Unidos.

     The seal lives in Asia, Mexico and in the United States.