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Hungarian
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
koca (plural kocák)
- sow (female pig)
Declension
Further reading
- koca in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
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Polish
Pronunciation
Noun
koca
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
koca (Cyrillic spelling коца)
Turkish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قوجه (koca), possibly a doublet of Ottoman Turkish خواجه (hoca), from Persian خواجه (xâje).
Cognate with Tatar хуҗа (xuca, “host, owner”), Kazakh қожа (qoja, “host, owner”), Kyrgyz кожо (kojo, “host, owner”), Uzbek xoʻja (“host, owner”), Uyghur خوجا (xoja, “host, owner”), Bashkir хужа (xuja, “master, owner”).
Adjective
koca (intensive koskoca)
- (of size) large, big
- Synonym: büyük
- Koca bir arabayla geldi ― He came with a huge car
- huge, enormous, whole
- Synonym: kocaman
- Koca dağları aşıp buraya gelmiş.
- He crossed the great mountains to get here.
- Koca evi kendi elleriyle yaptı.
- He built that whole house with his own hands.
- (figurative) big, large, whole, often used to emphasize something unusual, unbecoming, or ironic of something or someone given their size, duration, age, or status etc.
- Koca bir yıl geçti ama hâlâ emekli maaşımı alamadım.
- A good year has passed, but I still haven't received my pension.
- Koca şehirde bir tane tanıdık bulamadım.
- I couldn't find a single familiar face in the whole city.
- Koca profesör böyle bir hata yapar mı?
- Would a distinguished professor really make such a mistake?
- Koca çocuk oldun hâlâ oyuncak istiyorsun.
- You’re a whole grown kid and you still want toys.
- Koca başbakan dediğin insan böyle konuşur mu?
- Does someone who calls himself the prime minister talk like that? (It is very unbecoming of the prime minister to speak like that.)
- old, elder
Derived terms
- koca bebek
- koca kafa
- koca koca
- koca kuşluk
- koca reis
- koca yemiş
- Kocaali
- kocabaş
- kocabaşı
- kocakarı
- kocamak
- kocaman
- kocaoğlan
Noun
koca (definite accusative kocayı, plural kocalar)
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
koca
Further reading
- “koca”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “koca”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “koca”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “koca”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2638
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Yao
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Bantu *kʊ̀jòka.
Infinitive
koca
- infinitive of -joca.
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