poche
French
Etymology
From Middle French, from Old French puche (“purse, small bag”), from Frankish *pokka, *pukka (“pouch, bag”), from Proto-Germanic *puk-, *pūka- (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *buk-, *bu-, *beu- (“to blow, swell”). Reinforced by Old Norse puki, poki (“bag, pocket”), from Old Northern French.
Cognate with Middle Dutch poke, Alemannic German Pfoch (“purse, bag”), Old English pocca, pohha (“poke, pouch, pocket, bag”), and English pocket; compare also pouch.
Noun
poche f (plural poches)
- pocket (part of the clothing)
- pouch (small bag, or part of small bag)
- pouch (of a marsupial)
- pocket (cavity)
- poach (act of cooking by poaching)
- the rendering or the act of rendering the walls, columns, and other solids of a building or the like, as indicated on an architectural plan, usually in black
- ladle (container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal)
Derived terms
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- acheter chat en poche
- avoir des poches sous les yeux
- avoir un oursin dans sa poche
- dépocher
- empocher
- livre de poche
- ne pas avoir sa langue dans sa poche
- pochable
- pochage
- pochard
- pocharder
- porchardise
- pocher
- pochet
Verb
poche
Adjective
poche (plural poches)
Further reading
- “poche” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
German
Spanish
Verb
poche
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