choca

• (Amecameca, Jaltocán, Texcoco and Tlaxcala): choka
• (Canoa): chuca

choca

1. To cry.

From Proto-Nahuan *čooka.^[1]

choca (first conjugation, third-person singular imperfective chōcaya, third-person singular preterite chōcac, third-person singular future chōcaz)

1. (intransitive) to cry, weep^[2]
2. (intransitive) to bleat (of sheep); to roar, growl (of lions, jaguar, bulls); to cry (of birds)^[3]

From Proto-Celtic *klokkos (“bell”): compare Welsh cloch, Irish clog.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɔkɐ/

choca m (plural chocas)

1. cowbell

   Synonyms: chocallo, cinzarra

   • 1474, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 66:

     dous fouçiños, e hun legon, e hun sacho, e hun escoupere, e hua eyxola grande, e hua serra de mao, e outra eyxola de peto, e tres fouçes, e duas choquas

     two small sickles, a hoe, a mattock, a chisel, a large axe, a handsaw, a hatchet, three large sickles, and two cowbells

• choco
• choqueiro

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃokɐ/

choca

1. feminine singular of choco

choca

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

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “choca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “choca”, 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), “choca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “choca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Proto-Nahuan *čooka.

choca

1. cry, weep

• choquistli

• Brockway, Earl; Hershey de Brockway, Trudy; Santos Valdés, Leodegario (2018), Diccionario náhuatl del norte del estado de Puebla (Series de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas "Mariano Silva y Aceves"; 42)‎^[2] (in Spanish), segunda ILV edición (versión electrónica) edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 34

• Hyphenation: cho‧ca

From Old Galician-Portuguese choca, from Medieval Latin clocca (“bell”), from Gaulish *clocca, from imitative Proto-Indo-European *klak.

Compare English clock and French cloche (“bell”) and Irish clog (“bell, clock”).

choca f (plural chocas)

1. bell, cowbell

   Synonym: chocalho

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

choca

1. feminine singular of choco

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

choca

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

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

choca f

1. feminine singular of choco

choca

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