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Blend of soul +‎ calypso

soca (usually uncountable, plural socas)

1. (music) A genre of music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago in the early 1970s and developed into a range of styles during the 1980s and after which primarily includes influences of African and Indian rhythms.

   • 2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 151:

     He even turned up a few times after that—with mix-tapes of soca music, and handwritten notes, and tears.

• chutney-soca

• Saco, OACs, Asco, Caso, ocas, COAS, SCAO, saco, coas, COAs, CoAs, AOCs

soca

1. Romanization of ᬲᭀᬘ
2. Romanization of ᬰᭀᬘ

Borrowed from Gaulish *tsukka, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“stock; stump”). Compare French souche.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsɔ.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsɔ.ka]

soca f (plural soques)

1. trunk (of a tree)

   Synonym: tronc

2. stump (remains of the base of a tree)

   Synonym: soc

3. strain (a particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.)

• “soca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “soca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

soca

1. Romanization of ꦱꦺꦴꦕ

Borrowed from Gaulish *soucā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sew- (“to bend, to cut, to drive”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsoː.ka/, [ˈs̠oːkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈso.ka/, [ˈsɔːkä]

sōca m (genitive sōcae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) rope

First-declension noun.

Borrowed from Gaulish *tsukka, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“stock; stump”). Compare French souche.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuko/

soca f (plural socas)

1. trunk
2. stump
3. stock, in the sense of a grape vine, a cultivar

• socha
• sucha

• dessocar
• socada
• socal
• socalhon
• socam
• socareda
• socatge
• soqueta
• soquilh
• soquilhon

Borrowed from Sanskrit शोचि (śoci, “flame, glow”), शुच् (śuc, “to shine, glow”).

• IPA^(key): /sot͡ʃa/
• Rhymes: -t͡ʃa, -a
• Homophone: śoca
• Hyphenation: so‧ca

soca

1. precious stone, gem

• sosoca
• sotya

soca

1. eye

• Javanese: ꦱꦺꦴꦕ (soca, “eye; gem”), ꦱꦺꦴꦠꦾ (sotya)
• → Balinese: ᬲᭀᬘ (soca, “eye”)

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

soca

1. second-person singular imperative active of socati (“to grieve”)

soca

1. inflection of socar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Gaulish *tsukka, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“stock; stump”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoka/ [ˈso.ka]
• Rhymes: -oka
• Syllabification: so‧ca

soca f (plural socas)

1. Young shoots of rice

• “soca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Borrowed from Javanese ꦱꦺꦴꦕ (soca, “eye, gem”), from Old Javanese soca, from Sanskrit शोचि (śoci, “flame, glow”). Cognate to Balinese ᬲᭀᬘ (soca).

soca (Sundanese script ᮞᮧᮎ)

1. (lemes) eye

• sosoca

• "SOTJA", in Coolsma, S (1913) Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij