choca

Meaning

Noun

bell, cowbell

Adj

feminine singular of choco

Verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person) inflection of chocar:
2. (form-of, imperative, second-person, singular) inflection of chocar:

choco

• Noun
• Adj
• Verb

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chocar

1. (transitive) to brood (to keep an egg warm until it hatches)
2. (intransitive) to hatch (to break open when a young animal emerges from it)
3. (intransitive) to hatch (to emerge from its egg)
4. (figuratively, transitive) to hatch (to ponder an idea slowly and deliberately)
5. (intransitive, slang) to linger (to spend a long time not moving or doing anything)
6. (informal, intransitive) to become foul due to heat

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Concepts

antbird

antshrike

Translations

hormiguero

Ameisenwürger

batara

batará

hormiguerito

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʃɔ.kɐ/

Etymology

Cognate with English: clock

Cognate with French: cloche

Cognate with Irish: clog

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese choca, from Medieval Latin clocca (“bell”), from Gaulish *clocca, from imitative Proto-Indo-European *klak.
Compare English clock and French cloche (“bell”) and Irish clog (“bell, clock”).