arca

Borrowed from Old Javanese arca, from Sanskrit अर्चा (arcā).

• IPA^(key): /ar.t͡ʃə/
• Hyphenation: ar‧ca

arca (Balinese script ᬅᬃᬘᬵ or ᬅᬃᬘ)

1. statue

• “arca” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia], Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

Inherited from Latin arca.

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

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arca f (plural arques)

1. chest, coffer
2. ark (boat)

• bagul, cofre

• “arca”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾka/ [ˈaɾ.kɐ]
• Rhymes: -aɾka
• Hyphenation: ar‧ca

arca f (plural arcas)

1. (nautical, dated) starboard

   Synonym: estribor

   Antonyms: couso, babor

From Old Galician-Portuguese arca, archa, arqua, from Latin arca.

arca f (plural arcas)

1. ark; chest; coffer

   Synonym: hucha

2. box; casket

   Synonym: couselo

3. (historical, architecture) brattice (of a castle)
4. dolmen, megalith

   Synonyms: anta, forno

5. thoracic cavity

   Synonym: cavidade torácica

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “arca”, 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), “arca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “arca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

arc (“face”) +‎ -a (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒrt͡sɒ]
• Hyphenation: ar‧ca

arca

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of arc

   Felderült az arca. ― His/her face brightened.

• arca verítékével

From Malay arca, from Sanskrit अर्चा (arcā, “worship, idol”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈart͡ʃa]
• Hyphenation: ar‧ca

arca

1. idol (a graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power)

• “arca”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Latin arca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈar.ka/
• Rhymes: -arka
• Hyphenation: àr‧ca

arca f (plural arche)

1. ark (casket or tomb)

• arca di Noè (“Noah's ark”)
• arcaro

• arac, cara

• archa (Medieval Latin, common)

From Proto-Italic *arkā, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk-eh₂ or from the Proto-Italic form *arkeō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk-.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈar.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈar.ka]

arca f (genitive arcae); first declension

1. chest, box, coffer, safe (safe place for storing items, or anything of a similar shape)
2. coffin (box for the dead)
3. ark (kind of ship)
   1. (biblical) Noah's Ark
4. (biblical) Ark of the Covenant

First-declension noun.

• arcārius
• arcella
• arcula

• arcānō
• arcānus
• arceō

• “arca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “arca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "arca", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “arca”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to isolate a witness: aliquem a ceteris separare et in arcam conicere ne quis cum eo colloqui possit (Mil. 22. 60)
    
• “arca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “arca”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “arca”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

From Sanskrit अर्चा (arcā, “worship, idol”).

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /ˈart͡ʃə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /ˈart͡ʃa/
• Rhymes: -t͡ʃə, -ə

arca (Jawi spelling ارچا, plural arca-arca)

1. (uncommon, dated, archaic) sculpture, idol

   Synonym: (more common) patung

2. a shadow that can be seen in the mirror, through a camera lens or when dreaming
3. (computing) icon

For sense 1, "arca" refers to statues built from pre-Islamic times, especially idols and statues of kings.

• “arca”, in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu [Malay Literary Reference Centre] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Borrowed from Sanskrit अर्चा (arcā).

• IPA^(key): /ar.t͡ʃa/
• Rhymes: -t͡ʃa
• Hyphenation: ar‧ca

arca

1. image, cult-statue

• Javanese: ꦉꦕ (reca, “statue”)
• → Balinese: arca (“statue”)

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

• archa (obsolete)

• Rhymes: -aɾkɐ
• Hyphenation: ar‧ca

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese arca, archa, borrowed from Latin arca. First attested in 1109.^[1]

arca f (plural arcas)

1. ark
   • 1996, Fernando Pessoa, Mensagem: poemas esotéricos : edição crítica, Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica, →ISBN:

     ... certo tipo de «divisões» que lhe permitissem a arrumação dos seus papéis «na devida ordem», de modo a substituir a sua «caixa grande» (a famosa e mítica arca?

     ... a certain type of «divisions» that would allow him to arrange his papers «in due order», in order to replace his «big box» (the famous and mythical ark?) ...) ...

2. (biblical) ark (ship built by Noah)
3. (malacology) ark clam (mollusc in the genus Arca)
4. (dated) coffer (strong chest used for keeping valuables safe)
5. (by extension, dated) coffer (a supply of money belonging to an organization)
6. (dated) thorax
7. (Brazil, colloquial) pawnshop

   Synonym: casa de penhores

8. (Trás-os-Montes) hug

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

arca

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

• “arca”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “arca”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “arca”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “arca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish آرقه (arka).

arca f (plural arcale)

1. (obsolete) backer, protector

• arca in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Inherited from Old Spanish arca, archa, from Latin arca (“chest, box”), from arceō (“to enclose”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾka/ [ˈaɾ.ka]

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• Rhymes: -aɾka
• Syllabification: ar‧ca

arca f (plural arcas)

1. ark, chest

   Synonym: cofre

• Before feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like arca, the singular definite article takes the form of el (otherwise reserved for masculine nouns) instead of the usual la: el arca. This includes the contracted forms al and del (instead of a la and de la, respectively): al arca, del arca.

This also applies to the indefinite article, which takes the form of un, which is otherwise used with masculine nouns (although the standard feminine form una also occurs): un arca or una arca. The same is true with determiners algún/alguna and ningún/ninguna, as well as for numerals ending with 1 (e.g., veintiún/veintiuna).

However, if another word intervenes between the article and the noun, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (la, una etc.) are used: la mejor arca, una buena arca.

• In these cases, el and un are not masculine but feminine, deriving from Latin illa and una, respectively, even though they are identical in form to the corresponding masculine singular articles. Thus, they are allomorphs of the feminine singular articles la and una.
• The use of these allomorphs does not change the gender agreement of the adjectives modifying the feminine noun: el arca única, un(a) arca buena.
• In the plural, the usual feminine plural articles and determiners (las, unas, etc.) are always used.

• “arca”, 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

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