moca

From a proposed pre-Roman form *mauka of uncertain origin.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmɔ.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmɔ.ka]

moca f (plural moques)

1. guts, entrails

• esmocar

From Mokha (“Mocha”), port city in Yemen.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmɔ.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmo.ka]

moca m (plural moques)

1. mocha (type of coffee, or a dessert made from chocolate and coffee)

From moc (“mucus”), based on the fish's consistency.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmo.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmo.ka]

moca f (plural moques)

1. (Valencia) jellyfish

   Synonym: medusa

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmo.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmo.ka]

moca

1. inflection of mocar (“to blow (the nose); to mock”):
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmɔ.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmɔ.ka]

moca

1. inflection of mocar (“to gut (a fish or carcass)”):
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “moca”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Unknown. Related to Spanish mueca and probably also French moquer.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔka̝/

moca m (plural mocas)

1. mockery

   Synonyms: burla, chacota, escarnio

2. grimace
   • c. 1780, anonymous author, Cincuenta décimas contra Cernadas:

     Mordesme en Papeliños,
     que leeron moitas Xentes:
     mordes me, chantasme os dentes
     chantame agora os focinos:
     si lendo estes meus termiños
     fixères xestos, ou mocas,
     ê contra min te desuocas,
     ê con Mocas ques ferir me,
     e focas no Corpo abrirme,
     Chantame as mocas nas focas.

     You bite me in little papers
     that many people have read
     You bite me, thrust you teeth in me
     Thrust now your snout
     If reading these my terms
     You do gestures or grimaces
     and against me you run off at the mouth
     and with clubs you want to injure me
     and holes in my body open
     Thrust the clubs into my holes

3. (figurative) drunkenness

From an old Galician *mãoca, from man (“hand”) + -oca. Cognate with Asturian manueca.

• monca, mouca

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔka̝/

moca f (plural mocas)

1. club, cudgel

   Synonyms: baloco, cachaporra

   • c. 1780, anonymous author, Cincuenta décimas contra Cernadas:

     Mordesme en Papeliños,
     que leeron moitas Xentes:
     mordes me, chantasme os dentes
     chantame agora os focinos:
     si lendo estes meus termiños
     fixères xestos, ou mocas,
     ê contra min te desuocas,
     ê con Mocas ques ferir me,
     e focas no Corpo abrirme,
     Chantame as mocas nas focas.

     You bite me in little papers
     that many people have read
     You bite me, thrust you teeth in me
     Thrust now your snout
     If reading these my terms
     You do gestures or grimaces
     and against me you run off at the mouth
     and with clubs you want to injure me
     and holes in my body open
     Thrust the clubs into my holes

2. handstaff, helve (flail's handle)

   Synonym: mango

• mocada
• mocazo

Ultimately from Mocha, Yemen, a port on the Red Sea, from Arabic اَلْمُخَا (al-muḵā), due to its being a major marketplace for coffee during Ottoman rule.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔka̝/

moca m (plural mocas)

1. mocha

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “moca”, 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), “moca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “moca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Mocha, Yemen, a port on the Red Sea, from Arabic اَلْمُخَا (al-muḵā), due to its being a major marketplace for coffee during Ottoman rule.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.ka/
• Rhymes: -ɔka
• Hyphenation: mò‧ca

moca m (uncountable)

1. mocha (Arabian coffee)
2. a coffee drink made from mocha
3. (by extension) coffee

   Synonym: caffè

moca f (invariable)

1. alternative spelling of moka (“coffee maker”)

• moca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• camo, coma, macò

moca m

1. plantain tree

• Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “moca”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

From Mocha, Yemen, a port on the Red Sea, from Arabic اَلْمُخَا (al-muḵā), a major marketplace for coffee during Ottoman rule.

moca m (plural mocas)

1. mocha (a type of strong Arabian coffee)
2. mocha (a coffee drink with chocolate)

moca f (plural mocas)

1. club (heavy stick used as a weapon)

   Synonym: porrete

2. (Brazil) mockery; ridicule; derision

   Synonyms: sarro, zoação, zombaria, escárnio

3. (Portugal, colloquial) trip (drug-induced intoxicated state)

moca

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

moca

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