# cacha
## Asturian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkat͡ʃa/ [ˈka.t͡ʃa]

### Noun

cacha f (plural caches)
* a small and thin flagstone
* the handle of a knife or spoon
* buttock
* a piece of cloth used to wrap newborns
* the tip of a pencil
* a walking stick or crutch
* a piece of bread
* a piece of potato sown to sprout a new plant
* the eye of a needle

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

cacha
* third-person singular past historic of cacher

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkat͡ʃa/ [ˈkɑ.t͡ʃɐ]
* Rhymes: -atʃa
* Hyphenation: ca‧cha

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cachas (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *cappla, contracted form of *cappula, from the plural of capulum (“hilt”).

#### Noun

cacha f (plural cachas)
* (usually in the plural) scale (side plate of the handle of a knife)
* (colloquial, usually in the plural) buttock
    Synonym: nádega
    Antes os pais dicían ós fillos: "se te portas mal vas levar nas cachas!"In the past the parents used to say to their children: "if you misbehave you'll be spanked [on your buttocks]!"
* (rare) gutter
* (rare) scale (of a pine cone)

### Etymology 2

From cacho (“head”).

#### Noun

cacha f (plural cachas)
* (colloquial) head

##### Derived terms

* cacha pelada
* cachapudo
* cachaza
* cacheira
* cachola
* cachucha

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

cacha
* inflection of cachar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cachas”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cacha”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cacha”, 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), “cacha”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cacha”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Polish
### Etymology

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### Pronunciation

* (Greater Poland):
** (Chełmno-Dobrzyń) IPA: /ˈt͡sa.xa/

### Noun

cacha f
* (Chełmno-Dobrzyń) Synonym of stado

### Further reading

* Gustaw Pobłocki (1887) “cacha”, in Słownik kaszubski z dodatkiem idyotyzmów chełmińskich i kociewskich (in Polish), 2 edition, Chełmno, page 128

## Portuguese
### Verb

cacha
* inflection of cachar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative
* inflection of cachir:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkat͡ʃa/ [ˈka.t͡ʃa]
* Rhymes: -atʃa
* Syllabification: ca‧cha

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *capla, contracted form of Late Latin capula, plural of capulum (“hilt”), from Latin capiō.

#### Noun

cacha f (plural cachas)
* (often in the plural) piece of the handle of a knife
* (often in the plural, firearms) stock, buttstock, butt (the part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shoulder)
* (Spain, colloquial) buttock
* (Spain, colloquial) cheek
* (Peru, colloquial) mockery
* (Spain, colloquial) leg, thigh
* (Chile, colloquial) sexual intercourse

##### Derived terms

* hasta la cacha
* hasta las cachas

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

cacha
* inflection of cachar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “cacha”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /ˈkaχa/
* (South Wales) IPA: /ˈkaːχa/, /ˈkaχa/

### Verb

cacha
* inflection of cachu:
** first-person singular future
** second-person singular imperative

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.