# hucha
## French
### Pronunciation

* Homophones: huchas, huchât

### Verb

hucha
* third-person singular past historic of hucher

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ucha (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), borrowed from Old French huche, from Medieval Latin hutica, perhaps of Germanic origin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈut͡ʃa/ [ˈu.t͡ʃɐ]
* Rhymes: -utʃa
* Hyphenation: hu‧cha

### Noun

hucha f (plural huchas)
* chest
    Synonyms: arca, baúl, cofre
** 1310, Anselmo López Carreira, editor, Ourense medieval: documentos e arquivos, d. 75:Iten lle mando dous mill mrs. de seysseens e de coroados que seen na hucha verde dos signaes daguyas que se no dito moesteiro de Santa Clara e a plata que en ela se.Item, I send [to the monastery of Saint Claire] two thousand maravedies which are in the green chest with signs of eagles which is in the aforementioned monastery of Saint Claire, with the silver which is in it
** 1348, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 152:acharedes en casa na mia ucha cinquoeenta uaras de lenço que seen ordidas et cinquo maranas de fiado cruu et tres de cozidoyou'll find in my home inside my chest fifty yards of woven cloth and five skeins of raw thread and three of boiled
* bin
    Synonyms: arca, tulla

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ucha”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “hucha”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* “hucha” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “hucha”, 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), “hucha”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “hucha”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “hucha”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Gredos

## Quechua
### Noun

hucha
* guilt, fault, sin, offense, crime
* heavy energy (created by humans)

#### See also

* huchakuy

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French huche.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈut͡ʃa/ [ˈu.t͡ʃa]
* Rhymes: -utʃa
* Syllabification: hu‧cha

### Noun

hucha f (plural huchas)
* (Spain) piggy bank
    Synonyms: (Latin America, Philippines, Canary Islands, Andalusia) alcancía, (Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Peru, Uruguay) chanchito, (Mexico, Venezuela) cochinito, (Guatemala) cochito, (Colombia) marranito, (Mexico) puerquito, (El Salvador) tunquito

### Further reading

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