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arca

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See also: Arca, ARCA, and -arca

Balinese

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Javanese arca, from Sanskrit अर्चा (arcā).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ar.t͡ʃə/
  • Hyphenation: ar‧ca

Noun

arca (Balinese script ᬅᬃᬘᬵ or ᬅᬃᬘ)

  1. statue

Further reading

  • “arca”, in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia] (in Balinese), Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali]

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin arca.

Pronunciation

Noun

arca f (plural arques)

  1. chest, coffer
  2. ark (boat)

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

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Galician

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaɾka/ [ˈaɾ.kɐ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾka
  • Hyphenation: ar‧ca

Etymology 1

Noun

arca f (plural arcas)

  1. (nautical, dated) starboard
    Synonym: estribor
    Antonyms: couso, babor

Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese arca, archa, arqua, from Latin arca.

Noun

arca f (plural arcas)

  1. ark; chest; coffer
    Synonym: hucha
  2. box; casket
    Synonym: couselo
  3. (historical, architecture) brattice (of a castle)
  4. dolmen, megalith
    Synonyms: anta, forno
  5. thoracic cavity
    Synonym: cavidade torácica
Derived terms

References

Hungarian

Etymology

arc (“face”) +‎ -a (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɒrt͡sɒ]
  • Hyphenation: ar‧ca

Noun

arca

  1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of arc
    Felderült az arca. ― His/her face brightened.

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

Derived terms

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Indonesian

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Etymology

From Malay arca, from Sanskrit अर्चा (arcā, “worship, idol”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈart͡ʃa]
  • Hyphenation: ar‧ca

Noun

arca

  1. idol (a graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power)

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Italian

Etymology

Derived from Latin arca.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈar.ka/
  • Rhymes: -arka
  • Hyphenation: àr‧ca

Noun

arca f (plural arche)

  1. ark (casket or tomb)

Derived terms

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

    From Proto-Italic *arkā, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk-eh₂ or from the Proto-Italic form *arkeō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk-.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    arca f (genitive arcae); first declension

    1. chest, box, coffer, safe (safe place for storing items, or anything of a similar shape)
    2. coffin (box for the dead)
    3. ark (kind of ship)
      1. (biblical) Noah's Ark
    4. (biblical) Ark of the Covenant

    Declension

    First-declension noun.

    More information singular, plural ...

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Catalan: arca
    • Italian: arca
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: arca, archa
    • Old Spanish: arca, archa
    • → Albanian: arkë
    • → Proto-Brythonic: *arx
    • → Czech: archa
    • → Proto-Germanic: *arkō (see there for further descendants)
    • → Latvian: arka
    • → Lithuanian: arka
    • → Macedonian: арка (arka)
    • → Maltese: arka
    • → Norman: arche
    • → Old English: ærc
    • → Old French: arche
    • → Old Irish: árc, áirc
      • Irish: áirc
      • Scottish Gaelic: àirc
    • → Old Polish: archa (learned) (see there for further descendants)
    • → Romanian: arca
    • → Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: арка
      Latin script: arka
    • → Slovak: archa

    References

    • “arca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “arca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "arca", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • “arca”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to isolate a witness: aliquem a ceteris separare et in arcam conicere ne quis cum eo colloqui possit (Mil. 22. 60)
    • “arca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “arca”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
    • “arca”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
    • De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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    Malay

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    Etymology

    From Sanskrit अर्चा (arcā, “worship, idol”).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    arca (Jawi spelling ارچا, plural arca-arca or arca2)

    1. (uncommon, dated, archaic) sculpture, idol
      Synonym: (more common) patung
    2. a shadow that can be seen in the mirror, through a camera lens or when dreaming
    3. (computing) icon

    Usage notes

    For sense 1, "arca" refers to statues built from pre-Islamic times, especially idols and statues of kings.

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    Old Javanese

    Etymology

    Borrowed from Sanskrit अर्चा (arcā).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ar.t͡ʃa/
    • Rhymes: -t͡ʃa
    • Hyphenation: ar‧ca

    Noun

    arca

    1. image, cult-statue

    Derived terms

    • ekārca
    • jinārca
    • liṅgārca
    • Wiṣṇuarca

    Descendants

    • Javanese: ꦉꦕ (reca, “statue”)
    • → Balinese: arca (“statue”)

    Further reading

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

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