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Meaning of coca | Babel Free

Noun masculine CEFR B1
ˈkɔka̝

Definitions

  1. cockatrice, in Galician folklore a water creature
  2. coca (plant)
  3. cog (a clinker-built, flat-bottomed, square-rigged, single-masted mediaeval ship of burden)
  4. cocaine
  5. claw (pincer of a crustacean)

Equivalents

Català vibra víbria
Čeština bazilišek drak koka
Dansk lindorm
Ελληνικά κόκα
English Claw Coca cocaine cockatrice Cog Wyvern
Esperanto viverno
Español coca cocatriz dragón alado guiverno
Français coca cocatrix guivre vouivre
Gaeilge cóca vuibhearn
Bahasa Indonesia koka
Nederlands coca slangdraak wyvern
Português coca coça cocatrice cocatriz guivra serpe
Română coca
Svenska koka lindorm
Türkçe koka

Examples

“de baleas, de cocas, de orças et de todoslos outros pescados quea ẽnas agoas”

of whales, of cockatrices, of orcas and of all the other fishes that are in the waters

“que ordenaba e mandaba que andase logo a dita confraría de Santa Oufémea depúus a confraría de Santa María a Madre con sua danza de espadas e çirios e outros jogos algúus, se os tebesen, saluo que o jogo da qoqa que andase aalende das confrarías de San Sebastián e de San Migeel, junto con a confraría dos carniçeyros, por que a dita coqa he escandallosa”

they ordered and commanded that the guild of Saint Euphemia be the firt [in the parade], then the guild of Saint Mary Mother, with its sword dance and candles and other amusements, if they have any, with the exception of the game of the cockatrice, which should go after the guilds of Saint Sebastian and Saint Michael, with the butcher's guild, because said cockatrice is scandalous

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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