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English

Etymology

Abbreviations.

Noun

vac (plural vacs)

1. (informal) A vacation.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 324:

     It was to be their last term at Oxford and Hilary had incited them both to journey with him to Provence for the long vac.

2. (informal) A vacuum cleaner.
3. (informal) Clipping of vaccine.

Derived terms

• (vacuum cleaner) minivac

Verb

vac (third-person singular simple present vacs, present participle vacking, simple past and past participle vacked)

1. To vacuum; to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
   • 2010, Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star (page 332)

     I went on to how Harold used to work in security on the building; he used to see Andy in the underground car-park vacking the sick out of the Merc.

Anagrams

• ACV, AVC, CVA, Cav.

Huave

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vaca. Doublet of wacüx.

Noun

vac

1. cow

References

• Stairs Kreger, Glenn Albert; Scharfe de Stairs, Emily Florence; Olvaries Oviedo, Proceso; Ponce Villanueva, Tereso; Comonfort Llave, Lorenzo (1981) Diccionario huave de San Mateo del Mar (Serie de vocabularios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 24)?^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 177

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish vatsa.

Noun

vac

1. belly

English

Alternative forms

• vacay

Etymology

a clipping of vacation (informal, US)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ve?.ke?/

Noun

vaca (plural vacas)

1. vacation.

Synonyms

• leave, holiday; see also Thesaurus:vacation

Anagrams

• AACV, Cava, cava

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *wo?éh?.

Pronunciation

Noun

vaca f (plural vaques)

1. cow

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *wo?éh?.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?va.k?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?ba.k?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?va.ka/
• Rhymes: -aka

Noun

vaca f (plural vaques)

1. cow

Further reading

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

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• baka, vacca, baca, bacca

Etymology

From Latin vacca (“cow”), from Proto-Indo-European *wo?éh?. Compare Italian vacca, Spanish vaca.

Noun

vaca f

1. cow

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese vaca, from Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *wo?éh?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bak?/, (in sandhi) [??ak?]

Noun

vaca f (plural vacas)

1. cow
2. (fishing) trawler

Derived terms

See also

• almallo
• becerro
• boi
• touro
• xato

References

• “vaca” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “vaca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “vaca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “vaca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “vaca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “vaca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Verb

vaca

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

Anagrams

• cava

Latgalian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vat?sa/

Adjective

vaca f

1. old

Latin

Verb

vac?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of vac?

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Sanskrit ?? (vaca).

Noun

vaca m or n

1. word, saying

Declension

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *wo?éh?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vaka/

Noun

vaca f (plural vache)

1. cow

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?va.k?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?va.k?/, [?vä.k?]
• Rhymes: -aka
• Hyphenation: va?ca

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese vaca, from Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *wo?éh?.

Noun

vaca f (plural vacas)

1. cow
2. (derogatory, slang) a promiscuous woman; bitch

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: báka
• Papiamentu: baka
• ? Kadiwéu: waaca

See also

• boi
• touro
• bezerro
• vitelo
• novilho

Etymology 2

Verb

vaca

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of vacar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of vacar

References

• “vaca” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
• “vaca” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2021.
• “vaca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Romanian

Noun

vaca f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of vac?

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin vacca, from the Proto-Indo-European *wo?éh?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?baka/, [?ba.ka]
• Hyphenation: va?ca

Noun

vaca f (plural vacas)

1. cow (adult female of the species Bos taurus)
2. beef

   Synonyms: vacuno, res

3. leather

   Synonym: cuero de vaca

4. (derogatory, informal) cow (woman considered unpleasant, particularly one considered fat)
5. (Chile) collection

   Synonym: recaudación

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

• becerro
• ganado
• santa vaca
• ternero
• toro
• vacuno

Anagrams

• cava

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *wo?éh?.

Noun

vaca f (plural vache)

1. cow