fotja

Catalan

Etymology 1

Perhaps borrowed from a Mozarabic *folğa, *folec̆a, from Latin fulicem, variant of fulica.[1]

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

fotja f (plural fotges)

  1. a coot, especially a Eurasian coot (Fulica atra)
  2. a lazybones
Descendants
  • → Sicilian: forgia, foggia
  • → Spanish: focha, foja

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “focha”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 924

Further reading

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

fotja f (plural fotges)

  1. puddle (of water or mud)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Verb

fotja

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