cacha

• IPA^(key): /ˈkat͡ʃa/ [ˈka.t͡ʃa]
• Rhymes: -atʃa
• Syllabification: ca‧cha

cacha f (plural caches)

1. a small and thin flagstone
2. the handle of a knife or spoon
3. buttock
4. a piece of cloth used to wrap newborns
5. the tip of a pencil
6. a walking stick or crutch
7. a piece of bread
8. a piece of potato sown to sprout a new plant
9. the eye of a needle

• “cacha” in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana. Xosé Lluis García Arias. →ISBN.
• “cacha” in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana (1ª edición). Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (2000). →ISBN.

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cacha

1. third-person singular past historic of cacher

• IPA^(key): /ˈkat͡ʃa/ [ˈkɑ.t͡ʃɐ]
• Rhymes: -atʃa
• Hyphenation: ca‧cha

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cachas (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *cappla, contracted form of *cappula, from the plural of capulum (“hilt”).

cacha f (plural cachas)

1. (usually in the plural) scale (side plate of the handle of a knife)
2. (colloquial, usually in the plural) buttock

   Synonym: nádega

   Antes os pais dicían ós fillos: "se te portas mal vas levar nas cachas!"

   In the past the parents used to say to their children: "if you misbehave you'll be spanked [on your buttocks]!"

3. (rare) gutter
4. (rare) scale (of a pine cone)

From cacho (“head”).

cacha f (plural cachas)

1. (colloquial) head

cacha

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cachas”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cacha”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cacha”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cacha”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cacha”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Chełmno-Dobrzyń) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sa.xa/

cacha f

1. (Chełmno) synonym of stado

• Gustaw Pobłocki (1887) “cacha”, in Słownik kaszubski z dodatkiem idyotyzmów chełmińskich i kociewskich (in Polish), 2 edition, Chełmno, page 128

cacha

1. inflection of cachar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. inflection of cachir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈkat͡ʃa/ [ˈka.t͡ʃa]
• Rhymes: -atʃa
• Syllabification: ca‧cha

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *capla, contracted form of Late Latin capula, plural of capulum (“hilt”), from Latin capiō.

cacha f (plural cachas)

1. (often in the plural) piece of the handle of a knife
2. (often in the plural, firearms) stock, buttstock, butt (the part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shoulder)
3. (Spain, colloquial) buttock
4. (Spain, colloquial) cheek
5. (Peru, colloquial) mockery
6. (Spain, colloquial) leg, thigh
7. (Chile, colloquial) sexual intercourse

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cacha

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

• “cacha”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “cacha”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkaχa/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkaːχa/, /ˈkaχa/

cacha

1. inflection of cachu:
   1. first-person singular future
   2. second-person singular imperative