# bocha
## English
### Alternative forms

* bochah, boçhah, bocho, boutcha

### Etymology

From Hindi बौचा (baucā).

### Noun

bocha (plural bochas)
* (India, historical) A two-door sedan chair.
** 1825, John Borthwick Gilchrist editing Thomas Williamson as The General East India Guide and Vade Mecum..., Appendix No. IV, pp. 652 & 658:
    When the compilation by Williamson was first examined in order to correct his vulgar mode of spelling Hindoostanee words, a good while since, the number seemed so formidable, that innovation, even from a wrong system to a right one, was then indefinitely suspended; but... it would be unjust to postpone emendation any farther... incorrect... bochah,... correct... bocha.
** 1868 February 7, "Englishman", "Attempted Assassination of Sir Salar Jung...", Hyderabad Times, Vol. III, p. 41:
    Sir Salar Jung was proceeding to the palace of the Nizam on his bocha, a sort of state palanquin, in order to be present at the customary Eed durbar... when two shots in rapid succession were fired.
** 1931, Server Jung Bahadur, translated by Bahadur Yar Jung, My Life, page 139:[…] the Amir-i-Kabir, seated in a "Bocha" (palanquin), had also arrived at the gate of the Royal Palace […]
** 1995, The India Magazine of Her People and Culture, volume 16, page 17:[…] the bocha, the chair-palanquin […]

#### Translations
### References

* Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “bocha”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* bosa

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɔt͡ʃa̝/

### Etymology 1

Either onomatopoeic or from Latin pustula (“pimple”), but influenced by Latin botulus (“sausage”). Compare also bostela.

#### Noun

bocha f (plural bochas)
* blister
    Synonym: ampola
* pimple, pustule
* a kind of sausage

##### Related terms

* boche
* bochecha

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian boccia.

#### Noun

bocha f (plural bochas)
* spherical body
* bowling ball

### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “bocha”, 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), “bocha 'vexiga'”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bocha”, 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) “buche I”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Old Occitan
### Etymology

From Latin bucca. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French boche.

### Noun

bocha f (oblique plural bochas, nominative singular bocha, nominative plural bochas)
* mouth (anatomy)

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* boccia (Portugal)
* botcha (Brazil)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian boccia.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈbɔ.ʃɐ/, /ˈbɔ.t͡ʃɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈbɔ.ʃɐ/, /ˈbɔ.t͡ʃɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈbɔ.ʃa/, /ˈbɔ.t͡ʃa/

### Noun

bocha f (plural bochas)
* (Brazil) bowls; lawn bowls (sport where players roll balls such that they stop as close as possible to another ball)
    Synonym: bowls
* (Brazil) bowl (ball thrown by the player in lawn bowls)

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbot͡ʃa/ [ˈbo.t͡ʃa]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -otʃa
* Syllabification: bo‧cha

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian boccia.

#### Noun

bocha f (plural bochas)
* bowl (ball thrown in the game of bowls)
* (in the plural) bowls (sport)

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

bocha f (uncountable)
* canary clover
    Synonym: boja peluda

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

bocha f (plural bochas)
* female equivalent of bocho

#### Adjective

bocha f
* feminine singular of bocho

### Etymology 4
#### Verb

bocha
* inflection of bochar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “bocha”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28