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coca en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ˈkoʊ.kə/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈkəʊ.kə/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree Aymarader. Quechua kukabor. Aymara kukabor. Spanish cocabor. English coca Borrowed from Spanish coca, from Quechua kuka, perhaps from Aymara.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
2. (uncountable, usually) The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine and used as aphrodisiac in the past.

Forms

Deriveds

coca paste · cocaine · cocain · anticoca · coca wine · Coca-Cola · cocaethylene

Descendants

古柯

Translations (34)

cmn 古柯 (any of four cultivated plants of the family Erythroxylaceae) · pt coca (the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)) · el κόκα (the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)) · hi कोका (any of four cultivated plants of the family Erythroxylaceae) · de Cocablatt (the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)) · it coca (the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)) · ru ко́ка (any of four cultivated plants of the family Erythroxylaceae) · cs kokainovník pravý (the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)) · fr coca (the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)) · he קוקה (the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)) · es coca (the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)) · ro coca (the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)) · ga cóca (the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)) · ja コカ (any of four cultivated plants of the family Erythroxylaceae) · pl koka (any of four cultivated plants of the family Erythroxylaceae) · ga cóca (any of four cultivated plants of the family Erythroxylaceae) · tr koka (any of four cultivated plants of the family Erythroxylaceae) · mr कोका (any of four cultivated plants of the family Erythroxylaceae) · km កូកា (the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)) · mn кокайны мод (any of four cultivated plants of the family Erythroxylaceae) · el κόκα (any of four cultivated plants of the family Erythroxylaceae) · hi कोका (the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)) · mr कोका (the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)) · mn кока (the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)) · bg кока (the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)) · nl coca (the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)) · sv kokabuske (the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)) · de Koka (the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)) · io kokao (the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)) · tr koka ağacı (the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)) · ja コカ (the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)) · fi kokapensaat (the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca)) · ro coca (any of four cultivated plants of the family Erythroxylaceae) · pl koka (the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca))

coca en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /ˈkoʊ.kə/ (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈkəʊ.kə/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan coca. Doublet of cake.

Meanings

1. A pastry typically made and consumed in the Catalan-speaking areas.
   • A coca, a type of flat bread normally topped with roasted vegetables, was capped by strands of briny whitebait. 2015 April 17, Lisa Abend, “Sweet and Salty: Majorca’s Traditional Cuisine”, in New York Times:

Forms