It is indeed of greek origin; **foki** / **φώκη** in ancient Greek, **fokia** / **φώκια** in modern.
Also, there was the ancient greek city of **Fokaia** / **Φώκαια** in the Aegean coast of Anatolia, ancient Ionia region. The name survives in modern Turkish language as **Foça**. I’m not certain if the names of the animal and the city are related though; mentioning it because they not only sound similar, they also follow the same orthography/spelling in greek, using long o (omega, ω/Ω).
Πάγκαλος!
It’s una foca in Spanish, sure it came from Greek
This animal is called fokia (φώκια).
Use translation dude.
fókia (φώκια) in Greek. I looked up the etymology, and it’s Ancient Greek origin.
Other languages that use this word:
Turkish – fok
Italian – foca
Romanian – foca
Castilian/Spanish – foca
Catalan – foca
French – phoque
Polish – foka
Hungarian – fóka
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It’s ΦΩ-ΚΙΑ (φώκια). Pronounced “FOK-ya”. Likely an Ancient Greek word.
It’s “φώκια” (fokia) in Greek.
[Phocidea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phocinae) is the family of all true seals.
Phoca monachus is the mediterenean monk seals.
Comes from ancient greek [Φώκη](https://lsj.gr/wiki/%CF%86%CF%8E%CE%BA%CE%B7)
It is indeed of greek origin; **foki** / **φώκη** in ancient Greek, **fokia** / **φώκια** in modern.
Also, there was the ancient greek city of **Fokaia** / **Φώκαια** in the Aegean coast of Anatolia, ancient Ionia region. The name survives in modern Turkish language as **Foça**. I’m not certain if the names of the animal and the city are related though; mentioning it because they not only sound similar, they also follow the same orthography/spelling in greek, using long o (omega, ω/Ω).
Πάγκαλος!
It’s una foca in Spanish, sure it came from Greek
This animal is called fokia (φώκια).
Use translation dude.
fókia (φώκια) in Greek. I looked up the etymology, and it’s Ancient Greek origin.
Other languages that use this word:
Turkish – fok
Italian – foca
Romanian – foca
Castilian/Spanish – foca
Catalan – foca
French – phoque
Polish – foka
Hungarian – fóka