nuca

Borrowed from a language of the Sakhalin Island. Compare Orok луча (luča), Nivkh нуча (***ț’a). See also Daur luaaq, Manchu ᠯᠣᠴᠠ (loca), Yakut нуучча (nuucca), Nanai лоча (loca), Evenki лӯча (lūça), Even ню̄чи (ņūci), etc.

• IPA^(key): /***̜t͡ʃa/

nuca (Kana spelling ヌチャ)

1. a Russian (person)

nuca • (nuca)

1. Russia (A transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia)
2. Russian (language)

• (Russia): ヌチャ モシㇼ (nuca mosir), ヌチャ モシㇽ (nuca mosir)
• (the Russian language): ヌチャ イタㇰ (nuca itak)

Borrowed from Medieval Latin nucha, from Arabic نُخَاع (***ḵāʕ).

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

nuca f (plural nuques)

1. nape, back of the neck

• “nuca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “nuca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “nuca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “nuca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Medieval Latin nucha, from Arabic نُخَاع (***ḵāʕ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈ***.ka/
• Rhymes: -uka
• Hyphenation: nù‧ca

nuca f (plural nuche)

1. (anatomy) nape, back of the neck

• Canu, cuna

• IPA^(key): /ˈnyka/

nuca f (plural nuche)

1. nape

Borrowed from Medieval Latin nucha, from Arabic نُخَاع (***ḵāʕ).^[1][2]

• Rhymes: -ukɐ
• Hyphenation: ***‧ca

nuca f (plural nucas)

1. nape (back part of the neck)

• nucal

Borrowed from Medieval Latin nucha, from Arabic نُخَاع (***ḵāʕ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnuka/ [ˈ***.ka]
• Rhymes: -uka
• Syllabification: ***‧ca

nuca f (plural nucas)

1. (anatomy) nape (back of the neck)

   Synonym: cogote

• “nuca”, 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