bocha

• bochah, boçhah, bocho, boutcha

From Hindi बौचा (baucā).

bocha (plural bochas)

1. (India, historical) A two-door sedan chair.
   • 1825, John Borthwick Gilchrist editing Thomas Williamson as The General East India Guide and Vade Mecum..., Appendix No. IV, pp. 652 & 658:

     When the compilation by Williamson was first examined in order to correct his vulgar mode of spelling Hindoostanee words, a good while since, the number seemed so formidable, that innovation, even from a wrong system to a right one, was then indefinitely suspended; but... it would be unjust to postpone emendation any farther... incorrect... bochah,... correct... bocha.

   • 1868 February 7, "Englishman", "Attempted Assassination of Sir Salar Jung...", Hyderabad Times, Vol. III, p. 41:

     Sir Salar Jung was proceeding to the palace of the Nizam on his bocha, a sort of state palanquin, in order to be present at the customary Eed durbar... when two shots in rapid succession were fired.

   • 1931, Server Jung Bahadur, translated by Bahadur Yar Jung, My Life, page 139:

     […] the Amir-i-Kabir, seated in a "Bocha" (palanquin), had also arrived at the gate of the Royal Palace […]

   • 1995, The India Magazine of Her People and Culture, volume 16, page 17:

     […] the bocha, the chair-palanquin […]

• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “bocha”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

• bosa

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔt͡ʃa̝/

Either onomatopoeic^[1] or from Latin pustula (“pimple”), but influenced by Latin botulus (“sausage”). Compare also bostela.

bocha f (plural bochas)

1. blister

   Synonym: ampola

2. pimple, pustule
3. a kind of sausage

• boche
• bochecha

Borrowed from Italian boccia, from Vulgar Latin *buttia, borrowed from Byzantine Greek βούττια (boúttia, plural of βούττιον (boúttion)), from Ancient Greek βοῦττις (boûttis), possibly borrowed from Pre-Greek.

bocha f (plural bochas)

1. spherical body
2. bowling ball

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “bocha”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “bocha 'vexiga'”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bocha”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin bucca. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French boche.

bocha f (oblique plural bochas, nominative singular bocha, nominative plural bochas)

1. mouth (anatomy)

• boccia (Portugal)
• botcha (Brazil)

Borrowed from Italian boccia, from Vulgar Latin *buttia, borrowed from Byzantine Greek βούττια (boúttia, plural of βούττιον (boúttion)), from Ancient Greek βοῦττις (boûttis), possibly borrowed from Pre-Greek.

bocha f (plural bochas)

1. (Brazil) bowls; lawn bowls (sport where players roll balls such that they stop as close as possible to another ball)

   Synonym: bowls

2. (Brazil) bowl (ball thrown by the player in lawn bowls)

• “bocha”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “bocha”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈbot͡ʃa/ [ˈbo.t͡ʃa]

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• Rhymes: -otʃa
• Syllabification: bo‧cha

Borrowed from Italian boccia, from Vulgar Latin *buttia, borrowed from Byzantine Greek βούττια (boúttia, plural of βούττιον (boúttion)), from Ancient Greek βοῦττις (boûttis), possibly borrowed from Pre-Greek.

bocha f (plural bochas)

1. bowl (ball thrown in the game of bowls)
2. (in the plural) bowls (sport)

bocha f (uncountable)

1. canary clover

   Synonym: boja peluda

bocha f (plural bochas)

1. female equivalent of bocho

bocha f

1. feminine singular of bocho

bocha

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

• “bocha”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025