morca

Galician

Etymology

Possibly through Suevic from Proto-Germanic *merkuz (“dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *mergʷ- (“to flicker; to darken; to be dark”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɾka̝/

Noun

morca f (plural morcas)

1. grime, dirt

   Synonyms: cotra, lorda, morriña, negror

2. fish grease

   Synonym: saín

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “morca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega