okupa

• ocupa (adapted form)

Borrowed from Spanish okupa.

okupa m or f (plural okupas)

1. (Portugal, slang) of or relating to squatters or squatting

okupa f (plural okupas)

1. (Portugal, slang) squat

   Synonym: ocupação

   • 2017 November 7, Zita Moura, “Okupas: uma história que se escreve a cada dia”, in Jornal Mapa‎^[1], archived from the original on 13 April 2018:

     Durante um ano de “trabalho arqueológico”, como o descreve, já deram conta da existência de perto de 150 okupas entre 1993 e 2017.

     During a year of "archaeological work," so to speak, they have already documented the existence of nearly 150 squats between 1993 and 2017.

okupa m or f by sense (plural okupas)

1. (Portugal, slang) squatter
   • 2010 November 26, Inês Banha, “'Okupas' despejados lutam por casas devolutas”, in Diário de Notícias‎^[2], archived from the original on 23 May 2019:

     Contactada pelo DN, a vereadora Helena Roseta, responsável pelo pelouro da Habitação da CML, negou que a autarquia tivesse cedido o prédio aos okupas, embora tenha reconhecido que existiu um pedido por parte da associação.

     Once reached for comment, councilwoman Helena Roseta, responsible for housing at the Lisbon City Council, denied that the municipality had given the building to the squatters, although she acknowledged that there had been a request from the association.

• “ocupa”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “ocupa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

okupa (Cyrillic spelling окупа)

1. genitive singular of okup

• IPA^(key): /oˈkupa/ [oˈku.pa]
• Rhymes: -upa
• Syllabification: o‧ku‧pa

Shortening of ocupante, intentionally misspelled with a K, letter that reflects a willingness to transgress orthographic rules.

okupa m or f by sense (plural okupas)

1. (slang, Spain) squatter
   • 2020 July 10, “El PP acusa al PSOE de querer “cargarse la Monarquía y dar la independencia a Cataluña y Euskadi””, in El País‎^[3]:

     “No puede ser que las víctimas sean los okupas y los culpables los propietarios. Los okupas campan a sus anchas. ¿Pero a dónde hemos llegado en esta tierra, que no podemos salir de fin de semana, de supermercado, al cine o a dar paseo sin miedo a que vengan a tu casa?”.

     “It cannot be that the victims are the squatters and the owners are to blame. The squatters roam freely. But where have we come to in this country that we cannot go out for the weekend, to the supermarket, to the movies or for a walk without fearing that they will come to your house?

• See okupar.

• → Portuguese: okupa

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

okupa

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

• “okupa”, 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
• Movimiento okupa on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

• ukupa

Borrowed from Spanish ocupar.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔokuˈpa/ [ʔo.xʊˈpa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: o‧ku‧pa

okupá (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜃᜓᜉ)

1. act of occupying or residing (in a place)

   Synonyms: pagtira, pagtahan

2. act of occupying by seizure or conquest

   Synonym: pagsakop

3. act of occupying or filling (a space, container, mind, etc.)

• “okupa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018