desa

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See also: Desa, desà, desā, and de sa

Balinese

Romanization

desa

  1. Romanization of ᬤᬾᬰ.

Blagar

Noun

desa

  1. village

References

Catalan

Pronunciation

Verb

desa

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

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay desa, from Sanskrit देश (deśa).

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -sa, -a
  • Hyphenation: dè‧sa

Noun

dèsa (plural desa-desa, first-person possessive desaku, second-person possessive desamu, third-person possessive desanya)

  1. village
    1. (government) rural fourth-level division in Indonesia.
      Hyponym: kalurahan
  2. rural area
  3. country

Usage notes

  1. Desa was sixth-level administrative division in Java, Dutch East Indies, which was replaced by Japanese , (ku) during Japanese occupation.
  2. Desa is used for denoting rural fourth-level administrative division in Indonesia, which is a continuation from previous Dutch and Japanese administration division.
  3. Due to special status of Yogyakarta, rural fourth-level division is called kalurahan, an unadapted borrowing, which is known as desa (literally village) in other part of Indonesia, while the urbanized one kept the adapted spelling of kelurahan.

Derived terms

Further reading

Latvian

 desa on Latvian Wikipedia
Desas

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *deš-, from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (to cut, to sever, to split into fibers). A minority opinion derives desa from a different stem *deḱ- (to remove, to take out). Cognates include Lithuanian dešrà, dialectal dešerà, Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐌻 (tagl, hair), Old Norse tagl (horsehair), Old High German zagal (tail, rod), Old English tægl (tail), English tail, Sanskrit देशा (deśā, fringe of cloth; lamp wick).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

desa f (4th declension)

  1. sausage (meat product made of ground meat and seasonings stuffed into an animal's intestine or some similar cylindrical material)
    cūkgaļas desapork sausage
    aknu desaliver sausage
    žāvētās desasdried sausages
    desās pārstrādā gaļu un iekšējos orgānusone processes meat and internal organs into sausages
    brālis skubināja, lai pamērcējot desu sinepēsthe brother urged for the sausage to be seasoned in mustard

Declension

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “desa”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Malay

Etymology

From Sanskrit देश (deśa).

Noun

desa (Jawi spelling ديسا, plural desa-desa, informal 1st possessive desaku, 2nd possessive desamu, 3rd possessive desanya)

  1. country
  2. town, village

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Indonesian: desa
  • Min Nan: 禮些礼些 (lése)[1]

References

  1. ^ Salmon Claudine. Malay (and Javanese) Loan-words in Chinese as a Mirror of Cultural Exchanges. In: Archipel, volume 78, 2009. pp. 181-208

Further reading

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit देश (deśa).

Noun

desa m

  1. point
  2. place, region
  3. country

Declension

Descendants

References

Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875, page 114.

Spanish

Etymology

  • preposition de + pronoun esa

Contraction

desa

  1. (obsolete) of that, from that (followed by a feminine noun in singular)

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