bocha

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔt͡ʃa̝/

From Latin pustula (“pimp”), but influenced by Latin botulus (“sausage”).

bocha f (plural bochas)

1. blister

   Synonym: ampola

2. pimple, pustule
3. a kind of sausage

• boche
• bochecha

Borrowed from Italian buccia.

bocha f (plural bochas)

1. spherical body
2. bowling ball

• “bocha” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “bocha” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “bocha” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Latin bucca. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French boche.

bocha f (oblique plural bochas, nominative singular bocha, nominative plural bochas)

1. mouth (anatomy)

• boccia (dated)

Borrowed from Italian boccia.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.ʃɐ/, /ˈbɔ.t͡ʃɐ/

bocha f (plural bochas)

1. bowls; lawn bowls (sport where players roll balls such that they stop as close as possible to another ball)
2. bowl (ball thrown by the player in lawn bowls)

• (bowls): bowls

Borrowed from Italian boccia.

bocha f (plural bochas)

1. bowl (ball thrown in the game of bowls)
2. (in the plural) bowls (sport)