cunca

Betekenis (English)

1. (feminine) bowl
2. (feminine) basin
3. (feminine, historical) cunca, a traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 1–1.5 L depending on the substance measured
4. (feminine, historical) cunca, a traditional measure of land area equivalent to the amount of land that could be sown with a cunca of seed
5. (feminine) dimple
6. (feminine) eye socket, orbit

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

[ˈkuŋkɐ]

Etymologie (English)

Inherited from Latijn: concha

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese cunca, from Latin concha (“mussel, vessel”), from Ancient Greek κόγχη (kónkhē, “shell, mussel”).