jaca

See also: Jaca, jacá, jacă, and jača

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese jaca, from Malayalam ചക്ക (cakka) / Tamil சக்கை (cakkai).

Pronunciation

Noun

jaca f (plural jaques)

  1. jackfruit

Derived terms

  • jaquer

Cypriot Arabic

Root
j-v-c
4 terms

Etymology

From Arabic جَاعَ (jāʕa).

Verb

jaca I (present pijoco)

  1. to be hungry

References

  • Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 190

Murui Huitoto

Adverb

jaca

  1. Alternative spelling of jaka

References

  • Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20) (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 118

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Malayalam ചക്ക (cakka) / Tamil சக்கை (cakkai).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʒa.kɐ/

  • Rhymes: -akɐ
  • Hyphenation: ja‧ca

Noun

jaca f (plural jacas)

  1. jackfruit (the fruit of Artocarpus heterophyllus)

Descendants

  • Catalan: jaca
  • English: jack, jackfruit
  • French: jaque

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

jaca (Cyrillic spelling јаца)

  1. genitive singular of jadac

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈxaka/ [ˈxa.ka]
  • Audio (Venezuela):(file)
  • Rhymes: -aka
  • Syllabification: ja‧ca

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish haca, from Old French haque, from Middle English hack, from the Middle English equivalent of Hackney, a borough of London famous for its horses.

Noun

jaca f (plural jacas)

  1. pony
  2. mare
    Synonym: yegua
Derived terms

Verb

jaca

  1. inflection of jaquir:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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