tasca

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtas.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈtas.ka]

tasca f (plural tasques)

1. task

• a tasca

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaska̝/

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ (“bag, pouch”).

tasca f (plural tascas)

1. landing net

Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *tasko- (“peg”).[1]

tasca f (plural tascas)

1. an implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them
2. the action of scutching the flax
3. a reunion for scutching the flax

tasca f (plural tascas)

1. (mildly derogatory) tavern

tasca f (plural tascas)

1. twait shad (Alosa fallax)
2. allis shad (Alosa alosa)

tasca

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

• “tasca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “tasca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “tasca (rede)” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tasca 'taberna'” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tasca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Compare Italian tasca, German Tasche, Danish taske, Czech taška.

tasca (plural tascas)

1. bag

From Frankish *taskā, from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ. Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *das-, *des- (“to fray”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.ska/

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• Rhymes: -aska
• Hyphenation: tà‧sca

tasca f (plural tasche)

1. pocket

   Le penne spia possono essere facilmente agganciate alla tasca della giacca o della camicia, e nessuno sospetterà nulla.

   Pen voice recorders can be easily clipped onto your jacket or shirt pocket and no one will suspect anything.

   • 1995, “Dentro la tasca di un qualunque mattino”, in Montgolfières, performed by Gianmaria Testa:

     Dentro la tasca di un qualunque mattino / dentro la tasca ti porterei / nel fazzoletto di cotone e profumo / nel fazzoletto ti nasconderei

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• intascare
• rompitasche
• tascabile

• tasca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• casta

From Medieval Latin tasca, from Latin taxa.

• Audio (Gascon)

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tasca f (plural tascas)

1. sack, pouch
2. pocket
3. (historical) the right of champart

From tascar (“to nibble”).

tasca f (plural tascas)

1. restaurant
2. bar

• bodega
• taberna
• tasco

tasca

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaska/ [ˈt̪as.ka]
• Rhymes: -aska
• Syllabification: tas‧ca

Deverbal from tascar (“to scutch; to nibble”); see also Portuguese tasca.

tasca f (plural tascas)

1. bar; inn; drinking hole

tasca

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

• “tasca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014