vaca

See also: vacă, vacã, vàca, and vācā

English

Alternative forms

Noun

vaca (countable and uncountable, plural vacas)

  1. (slang) Alternative spelling of vacay.

Anagrams

Aragonese

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbaka/
  • Rhymes: -aka
  • Syllabification: va‧ca

Etymology 1

From Latin vacca.

Noun

vaca f (plural vacas)

  1. cow
Derived terms
  • vacal (“leather”)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms

Noun

vaca f (plural vacas)

  1. strike (work stoppage)
Derived terms
  • fer vaca (“to go on strike”)

References
  • “huelga”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
  • “vaca”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin vacca.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbaka/, [ˈba.ka]
  • Rhymes: -aka
  • Hyphenation: va‧ca

Noun

vaca f (plural vaques)

  1. cow

Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin vacca.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): (Central) [ˈba.kə]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [ˈva.kə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈva.ka]
  • Audio (Valencian)(file)
  • Rhymes: -aka
  • Homophone: baca

Noun

vaca f (plural vaques)

  1. cow
  2. torpedo (ray of the genus Torpedo)
    Synonyms: tremolosa, torpede
  3. painted comber (fish of species Serranus scriba)
    Synonyms: serrana, vaca serrana

Further reading

Verb

vaca

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

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin vacca (“cow”). Compare Italian vacca, Spanish vaca.

Noun

vaca f

  1. cow

Galician
Vacas

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese vaca, from Latin vacca.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbaka/ [ˈbɑ.kɐ]
  • Rhymes: -aka
  • Hyphenation: va‧ca

Noun

vaca f (plural vacas)

  1. cow
  2. (fishing) trawler

Derived terms
  • Bacariza
  • Cabeza da Vaca
  • Cabeza de Vaca
  • Pena Vaqueira
  • Penavaqueira
  • Vacariza
  • Vaqueira
  • Vaqueiro
  • vaqueiro
  • vaqueriza

See also

References
  • “vaca”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
  • “vaca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “vaca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “vaca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “vaca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “vaca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈva.ka/
  • Rhymes: -aka
  • Hyphenation: và‧ca

Verb

vaca

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

Anagrams

Latgalian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈvat͡sa]
  • Hyphenation: va‧ca

Adjective

vaca

  1. inflection of vacs:
    1. indefinite genitive singular masculine
    2. indefinite nominative singular feminine

Latin

Verb

vacā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of vacō

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vacca.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈβa.ka/

Noun

vaca f (plural vacas)

  1. cow

Descendants
  • Galician: vaca
  • Portuguese: vaca (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

Pali

Alternative forms
Alternative forms
  • 𑀯𑀘 (Brahmi script)
  • वच (Devanagari script)
  • ৰচ (Bengali script)
  • වච (Sinhalese script)
  • ဝစ or ဝၸ (Burmese script)
  • วจ or วะจะ (Thai script)
  • ᩅᨧ (Tai Tham script)
  • ວຈ or ວະຈະ (Lao script)
  • វច (Khmer script)
  • 𑅇𑄌 (Chakma script)

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit वच (vaca).

Noun

vaca m or n

  1. word, saying

Declension
Declension table of "vaca" (masculine)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)vacovacā
Accusative (second)vacaṃvace
Instrumental (third)vacenavacehi or vacebhi
Dative (fourth)vacassa or vacāya or vacatthaṃvacānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)vacasmā or vacamhā or vacāvacehi or vacebhi
Genitive (sixth)vacassavacānaṃ
Locative (seventh)vacasmiṃ or vacamhi or vacevacesu
Vocative (calling)vacavacā
Declension table of "vaca" (neuter)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)vacaṃvacāni
Accusative (second)vacaṃvacāni
Instrumental (third)vacenavacehi or vacebhi
Dative (fourth)vacassa or vacāya or vacatthaṃvacānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)vacasmā or vacamhā or vacāvacehi or vacebhi
Genitive (sixth)vacassavacānaṃ
Locative (seventh)vacasmiṃ or vacamhi or vacevacesu
Vocative (calling)vacavacāni

References
  • Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “vaca”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin vacca

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈvaka/

Noun

vaca f (plural vache)

  1. cow

Portuguese
vaca

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈva.kɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈva.ka/
 

  • (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): [ˈba.kɐ], [ˈβa.kɐ]
  • Rhymes: -akɐ
  • Hyphenation: va‧ca

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vaca, from Latin vacca.

Noun

vaca f (plural vacas)

  1. cow
  2. beef (meat)
  3. (derogatory, colloquial) a promiscuous woman; bitch
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vadia
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Kabuverdianu: báka
  • Papiamentu: baka
  • → Kadiwéu: waaca

See also

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

vaca

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

References

Romanian

Noun

vaca f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of vacă

Spanish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbaka/ [ˈba.ka]
  • Audio (Spain):(file)
  • Rhymes: -aka
  • Syllabification: va‧ca
  • Homophone: baca

Etymology 1
vaca

Inherited from Latin vacca.

Noun

vaca f (plural vacas)

  1. cow (adult female of the species Bos taurus)
  2. beef
    Synonyms: vacuno, res
  3. leather
    Synonym: cuero de vaca
  4. (derogatory, informal) cow (woman considered unpleasant, particularly one considered fat)
  5. (Chile) collection
    Synonym: recaudación
Derived terms
Descendants
Descendants

Adjective

vaca f

  1. feminine singular of vaco

Verb

vaca

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

See also

Further reading

Anagrams

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin vacca

Noun

vaca f (plural vache)

  1. cow
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