desa

Balinese

Romanization

desa

1. Romanization of ᬤᬾᬰ.

Blagar

Noun

desa

1. village

References

• Antoinette Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1 (2014), p. 165

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

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 區, 区 (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

• “desa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Latvian

 desa on Latvian Wikipedia

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”).

Pronunciation

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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 desa ― pork sausage

   aknu desa ― liver sausage

   žāvētās desas ― dried sausages

   desās pārstrādā gaļu un iekšējos orgānus ― one processes meat and internal organs into sausages

   brālis skubināja, lai pamērcējot desu sinepēs ― the brother urged for the sausage to be seasoned in mustard

Declension

Derived terms

• (dated) desinieks, desiniece
• (colloquial) desot
• (colloquial) muļķadesa, muļķa desa

References

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

• kampung

Descendants

• Indonesian: desa
• → Min Nan: 禮些／礼些 (lése)

References

Further reading

• “desa” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit देश (deśa).

Noun

desa m

1. point
2. place, region
3. country

Declension

Descendants

• → Burmese: ဒေသ (desa.)
• → Thai: เทศ (têet)
• → Khmer: ទេស (teeh)

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)

Related terms

Further reading

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