# tasca
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈtas.kə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈtas.ka]

### Noun

tasca f (plural tasques)
* task

#### Derived terms

* a tasca

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtaska̝/

### Etymology 1

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ (“bag, pouch”).

#### Noun

tasca f (plural tascas)
* landing net

### Etymology 2

Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *tasko- (“peg”).

#### Noun

tasca f (plural tascas)
* an implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them
* the action of scutching the flax
* a reunion for scutching the flax

#### Noun

tasca f (plural tascas)
* (mildly derogatory) tavern

#### Noun

tasca f (plural tascas)
* twait shad (Alosa fallax)
* allis shad (Alosa alosa)

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

tasca
* inflection of tascar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tasca”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tasca”, 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), “tasca (rede)”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (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), “tasca 'taberna'”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tasca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “tascar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Interlingua
### Etymology

Compare Italian tasca, German Tasche, Danish taske, Czech taška.

### Noun

tasca (plural tascas)
* bag

## Italian
### Etymology

From Frankish *taskā, from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ. Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *das-, *des- (“to fray”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.ska/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aska
* Hyphenation: tà‧sca

### Noun

tasca f (plural tasche)
* pocket
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#### Derived terms

* intascare
* rompitasche
* tascabile

### Further reading

* tasca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* casta

## Occitan
### Etymology

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin tasca.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Gascony):(file)

### Noun

tasca f (plural tascas)
* sack, pouch
* pocket
* (historical) the right of champart

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈtas.kɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈtas.kɐ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈtaʃ.kɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈtas.ka/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈtaʃ.kɐ/

### Etymology 1

From tascar (“to nibble”).

#### Noun

tasca f (plural tascas)
* restaurant
* bar

##### Synonyms

* bodega
* taberna
* tasco

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

tasca
* inflection of tascar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtaska/ [ˈt̪as.ka]
* Rhymes: -aska
* Syllabification: tas‧ca

### Etymology 1

Deverbal from tascar (“to scutch; to nibble”); see also Portuguese tasca.

#### Noun

tasca f (plural tascas)
* bar; inn; drinking hole

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

tasca
* inflection of tascar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “tasca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014