soca

Blend of soul +‎ calypso

soca (usually uncountable, plural socas)

1. (music) A genre of music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1970s and developed into a range of styles during the 1980s and after which primarily includes influences of African and Indian rhythms.
   • 2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 151:

     He even turned up a few times after that—with mix-tapes of soca music, and handwritten notes, and tears.

   • 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 684:

     —Carnival? With soca music?

• chutney-soca

• Saco, OACs, Asco, Caso, ocas, COAS, SCAO, saco, coas, COAs, CoAs, AOCs

• IPA^(key): /sot͡ʃə/
• Hyphenation: so‧ca

Borrowed from Old Javanese soca (“eye; precious stone, gem”). Cognate to Sundanese soca

soca (Balinese script ᬲᭀᬘ)

1. gem
2. eye

From Sanskrit शौच (śauca, “cleaniness”).

soca (Balinese script ᬰᭀᬘ)

1. clean

Borrowed from Gaulish *tsukka, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“stock; stump”). Compare French souche.

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

soca f (plural soques)

1. trunk (of a tree)

   Synonym: tronc

2. stump (remains of the base of a tree)

   Synonym: soc

3. strain (a particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.)

• “soca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “soca”, 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

soca

1. romanization of ꦱꦺꦴꦕ

Borrowed from Gaulish *soucā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sew- (“to bend, to cut, to drive”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsoː.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɔː.ka]

sōca m (genitive sōcae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) rope

First-declension noun.

Borrowed from Gaulish *tsukka, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“stock; stump”). Compare French souche.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuko/

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soca f (plural socas)

1. trunk
2. stump
3. stock, in the sense of a grape vine, a cultivar

• socha
• sucha

Borrowed from Sanskrit शोचि (śoci, “flame, glow”), शुच् (śuc, “to shine, glow”).

• IPA^(key): /sot͡ʃa/
• Rhymes: -t͡ʃa, -a
• Homophone: śoca
• Hyphenation: so‧ca

soca

1. precious stone, gem

• sosoca
• sotya

soca

1. eye

• Javanese: ꦱꦺꦴꦕ (soca, “eye; gem”), ꦱꦺꦴꦠꦾ (sotya)
• → Balinese: soca (“eye”)

• "soca" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

soca

1. second-person singular imperative active of socati (“to grieve”)

soca

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

Borrowed from Gaulish *tsukka, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“stock; stump”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoka/ [ˈso.ka]
• Rhymes: -oka
• Syllabification: so‧ca

soca f (plural socas)

1. Young shoots of rice

• “soca”, 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

Borrowed from Javanese ꦱꦺꦴꦕ (soca, “eye, gem”), from Old Javanese soca, from Sanskrit शोचि (śoci, “flame, glow”). Cognate to Balinese soca.

soca (Sundanese script ᮞᮧᮎ)

1. (lemes) eye

• sosoca

• "SOTJA", in Coolsma, S (1913) Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij