koca

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• IPA^(key): [ˈkot͡sɒ]
• Hyphenation: ko‧ca
• Rhymes: -t͡sɒ

koca (plural kocák)

1. sow (female pig)

• koca in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.t͡sa/
• Rhymes: -ɔt͡sa
• Syllabification: ko‧ca

koca

1. genitive singular of koc

koca (Cyrillic spelling коца)

1. genitive singular of kotac

• IPA^(key): /koˈd͡ʒa/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ko‧ca

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قوجه (koca), possibly a doublet of Ottoman Turkish خواجه (hoca), from Classical Persian خواجه (xwāja).

Cognate with Tatar хуҗа (xuca, “host, owner”), Kazakh қожа (qoja, “host, owner”), Kyrgyz кожо (kojo, “host, owner”), Uzbek xoʻja (“host, owner”), Uyghur خوجا (xoja, “host, owner”), Bashkir хужа (xuja, “master, owner”).

koca (intensive koskoca)

1. (of size) large, big

   Synonym: büyük

   Koca bir arabayla geldi ― He came with a huge car

2. huge, enormous, whole

   Synonym: kocaman

   Koca dağları aşıp buraya gelmiş.

   He crossed the great mountains to get here.

   Koca evi kendi elleriyle yaptı.

   He built that whole house with his own hands.

3. (figurative) big, large, whole, often used to emphasize something unusual, unbecoming, or ironic of something or someone given their size, duration, age, or status etc.

   Koca bir yıl geçti ama hâlâ emekli maaşımı alamadım.

   A good year has passed, but I still haven't received my pension.

   Koca şehirde bir tane tanıdık bulamadım.

   I couldn't find a single familiar face in the whole city.

   Koca profesör böyle bir hata yapar mı?

   Would a distinguished professor really make such a mistake?

   Koca çocuk oldun hâlâ oyuncak istiyorsun.

   You’re a whole grown kid and you still want toys.

   Koca başbakan dediğin insan böyle konuşur mu?

   Does someone who calls himself the prime minister talk like that? (It is very unbecoming of the prime minister to speak like that.)

4. old, elder

   Synonyms: yaşlı, kart

koca (definite accusative kocayı, plural kocalar)

1. husband

   Synonyms: (dated) bey, (archaic) zevç

   koca bulmak ― to find a husband

• “koca”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “koca”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “koca”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2638
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “koca”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

koca

1. second-person singular imperative of kocamak

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *kʊ̀jòka.

koca

1. infinitive of -joca.