# soca
## English
### Etymology

Blend of soul +‎ calypso

### Noun

soca (usually uncountable, plural socas)
* (music) A genre of music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1970s and developed into a range of styles during the 1980s and after which primarily includes influences of African and Indian rhythms.
** 2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 151:He even turned up a few times after that—with mix-tapes of soca music, and handwritten notes, and tears.
** 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 684:—Carnival? With soca music?

#### Derived terms

* chutney-soca

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Saco, OACs, Asco, Caso, ocas, COAS, SCAO, saco, coas, COAs, CoAs, AOCs

## Balinese
### Romanization

soca
* Romanization of ᬲᭀᬘ
* Romanization of ᬰᭀᬘ

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Gaulish *tsukka, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“stock; stump”). Compare French souche.

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

soca f (plural soques)
* trunk (of a tree)
    Synonym: tronc
* stump (remains of the base of a tree)
    Synonym: soc
* strain (a particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.)

### Further reading

* “soca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
* “soca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Javanese
### Romanization

soca
* Romanization of ꦱꦺꦴꦕ

## Latin
### Etymology

Borrowed from Gaulish *soucā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sew- (“to bend, to cut, to drive”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈsoː.ka/, [ˈs̠oːkä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈso.ka/, [ˈsɔːkä]

### Noun

sōca m (genitive sōcae); first declension
* (Late Latin) rope

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Italo-Dalmatian:
** Italian: soga
** Venetan: sóga
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: soga
** Old French: soue
* Ibero-Romance:
** Asturian: soga
** Galician: soga
** Spanish: soga

## Occitan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Gaulish *tsukka, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“stock; stump”). Compare French souche.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsuko/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

soca f (plural socas)
* trunk
* stump
* stock, in the sense of a grape vine, a cultivar

#### Dialectal variants

* socha
* sucha

#### Derived terms

* dessocar
* socada
* socal
* socalhon
* socam
* socareda
* socatge
* soqueta
* soquilh
* soquilhon

## Old Javanese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit शोचि (śoci, “flame, glow”), शुच् (śuc, “to shine, glow”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sot͡ʃa/
* Rhymes: -t͡ʃa, -a
* Homophone: śoca
* Hyphenation: so‧ca

### Noun

soca
* precious stone, gem

#### Alternative forms

* sosoca
* sotya

#### Derived terms

* asoca
* asosoca
* sinocan
* sinotyan

### Noun

soca
* eye

### Descendants

* Javanese: ꦱꦺꦴꦕ (soca, “eye; gem”), ꦱꦺꦴꦠꦾ (sotya)
* → Balinese: ᬲᭀᬘ (soca, “eye”)

### Further reading

* "soca" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

## Pali
### Verb

soca
* second-person singular imperative active of socati (“to grieve”)

## Portuguese
### Verb

soca
* inflection of socar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Gaulish *tsukka, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“stock; stump”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsoka/ [ˈso.ka]
* Rhymes: -oka
* Syllabification: so‧ca

### Noun

soca f (plural socas)
* Young shoots of rice

### Further reading

* “soca”, 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

## Sundanese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦱꦺꦴꦕ (soca, “eye, gem”), from Old Javanese soca, from Sanskrit शोचि (śoci, “flame, glow”). Cognate to Balinese ᬲᭀᬘ (soca).

### Noun

soca (Sundanese script ᮞᮧᮎ)
* (lemes) eye

#### Derived terms

* sosoca

### Further reading

* "SOTJA", in Coolsma, S (1913) Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij