zanca

• zanga

From Latin zancha.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθaŋka̝/

zanca f (plural zancas)

1. leg; thigh
2. hip (of a roof)

• IPA^(key): /ˈθaŋka̝/

zanca f (plural zancas)

1. a large extension of walled woodland

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “zanca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “zanca”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “zanca”, 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), “zanca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “zanca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• cianca (regional)

From Latin zancha (a kind of shoe), from Parthian.

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈd͡zan.ka/
• Rhymes: -anka
• Hyphenation: zàn‧ca

zanca f (plural zanche) (obsolete, regional)

1. (obsolete) leg
2. (obsolete, in the plural) stilts

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

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

zanca f (genitive zancae); first declension

1. alternative spelling of zancha (“kind of soft Parthian shoe”)

First-declension noun.

From Late Latin zanca (“kind of shoe”), from Parthian.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθanka/ [ˈθãŋ.ka] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsanka/ [ˈsãŋ.ka] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -anka
• Syllabification: zan‧ca

zanca f (plural zancas)

1. leg of a bird
2. (colloquial) long, thin leg of a human

• → Portuguese: sanca

• “zanca”, 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