nuca

Borrowed from a language of the Sakhalin Island. Compare Orok луча (luča), Nivkh нуча (nuț’a). See also Daur luaaq, Manchu ᠯᠣᠴᠠ (loca), Yakut нуучча (nuucca), Nanai лоча (loca), Evenki лӯча (lūça), Even ню̄чи (ņūci), etc.

• IPA^(key): /nu̜t͡ʃa/

nuca (Kana spelling ヌチャ)

1. Russian (native or inhabitant of Russia)

nuca • (nuca)

1. Russia (a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia)
2. Russian (language)

• (Russia): ヌチャ モシㇼ (nuca mosir), ヌチャ モシㇽ (nuca mosir)
• (the Russian language): ヌチャ イタㇰ (nuca itak)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin nucha, from Arabic نُخَاع (nuḵāʕ).

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

nuca f (plural nuques)

1. nape, back of the neck

• “nuca”, 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
• “nuca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “nuca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “nuca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Medieval Latin nucha, from Arabic نُخَاع (nuḵāʕ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnu.ka/
• Rhymes: -uka
• Hyphenation: nù‧ca

nuca f (plural nuche)

1. (anatomy) nape, back of the neck

• Canu, cuna

• IPA^(key): /ˈnyka/

nuca f (plural nuche)

1. nape

Borrowed from Medieval Latin nucha, from Arabic نُخَاع (nuḵāʕ).^[1][2]

• Rhymes: -ukɐ
• Hyphenation: nu‧ca

nuca f (plural nucas)

1. nape (back part of the neck)

• nucal

Borrowed from Medieval Latin nucha, from Arabic نُخَاع (nuḵāʕ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnuka/ [ˈnu.ka]
• Rhymes: -uka
• Syllabification: nu‧ca

nuca f (plural nucas)

1. (anatomy) nape (back of the neck)

   Synonym: cogote

• “nuca”, 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