maloca

From Brazilian Portuguese maloca, from Spanish maloca (“raid, attack”), from Mapudungun malocán (“to fight”).

• Hyphenation: ma‧lo‧ca

maloca (plural malocas)

1. An ancestral longhouse used by the natives of the Amazon, notably in Colombia and Brazil.

• malaco-

• Rhymes: -ɔkɐ

• Hyphenation: ma‧lo‧ca

From Spanish maloca (“raid, attack”), from Mapudungun malocán (“to fight”).

maloca f (plural malocas)

1. a maloca
2. (Brazil, figuratively) shack, hut

   Synonyms: cabana, choupana

3. (Brazil, by extension) affectionate term for a home or habitation

   Synonyms: cafofo, barraco

4. (Brazil) hideout

   Synonym: esconderijo

5. (Brazil) an Indian settlement
6. (Brazil) scum (an untrustworthy group of people)

   Synonyms: bando, magote, corja, escória, ralé, súcia, escumalha

7. (Northeast Brazil) livestock that cowboys gather during vaquejadas and take to a corral
8. (Brazil) livestock that grazes on certain points of a field

• maloqueiro
• malocar

maloca

1. third-person singular present indicative of malocar
2. second-person singular imperative of malocar

• IPA^(key): /maˈloka/ [maˈlo.ka]
• Rhymes: -oka
• Syllabification: ma‧lo‧ca

maloca f (plural malocas)

1. (Colombia) maloca (a type of house used by the indigenous people of the Amazon)

• “maloca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024