# toca
## Asturian
### Verb

toca
* third-person singular present indicative of tocar
* second-person singular imperative of tocar

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

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

### Verb

toca
* inflection of tocar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Classical Nahuatl
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtoːka/
* Rhymes: -aci

### Verb

tōca
* (transitive) to bury, to plant something

## Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl
### Noun

toca
* name

## Galician
### Verb

toca
* inflection of tocar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɔ.kɐ/
* Rhymes: -ɔkɐ
* Hyphenation: to‧ca

### Etymology 1

Uncertain, with multiple theories:
* from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia;
* from Spanish tueca.

#### Noun

toca f (plural tocas)
* den, burrow
    Synonyms: covil, furna, lura
** 1919, Monteiro Lobato, Jeca Tatú: Vida e costumes‎, page 8:Sua casa de sapé e lama faz rir aos bichos que moram em toca e gargalhar ao joão de barro.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* (figurative) refuge, hiding place
* (figurative, colloquial) bedroom

##### Derived terms

* entocar
* paleotoca

### Etymology 2

Deverbal from tocar (“to touch”).

#### Noun

toca m (uncountable)
* (Ceará) tag (children's chasing game)
    Synonym: pega-pega

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

toca
* inflection of tocar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

* ↑ “toca”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* ↑ “toca” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

### Further reading

* “toca”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2025
* “toca”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
* “toca”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “toca”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “toca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

### Anagrams

* acto-, cato, cota, taco-, taco, octã, octa-

## Romanian
### Etymology

Possibly from Vulgar Latin *toccāre or *tuccāre (“to knock, strike, offend”), possibly of Germanic or onomatopoeic origin. Compare French toucher, toquer, Italian toccare, Portuguese tocar, Spanish tocar. Alternatively possibly from Italian toccare.

### Verb

a toca (third-person singular present toacă, past participle tocat) 1st conjugation
* to chop, mince, hack
* to hit, knock, bang against something (such as with a hammer)
* to bother, pester, nag

#### Derived terms

* toacă
* tocare
* tocat

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtoka/ [ˈt̪o.ka]
* Rhymes: -oka
* Syllabification: to‧ca

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian toca, tocca (“veil, silkcloth”), from Lombard toh (“headscarf”), from Lombardic *tuoh, from Proto-West Germanic *dōk (“cloth”). Compare French toque, of similar origin.

#### Noun

toca f (plural tocas)
* kerchief, turban cloth (so to say)

##### Derived terms

* destocar
* toquilla

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

toca
* inflection of tocar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “toca”, 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

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈto.t͡ʃa]

### Noun

toca
* wax
* a candle

### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh