nuca

Borrowed from a language of the Sakhalin Island. Compare Orok луча, 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 • (nuca)

1. a Russian (person)

nuca • (nuca)

1. Russia (The largest country in the world, 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): (Valencian) [ˈnu.ka]

nuca f (plural nuques)

1. nape, back of the neck

• “nuca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “nuca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “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]

• 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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014