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Balinese
Romanization
desa
Romanization of ᬤᬾᬰ .
Blagar
Noun
desa
village
References
Catalan
Pronunciation
Verb
desa
inflection of desar :
third-person singular present indicative
second-person singular imperative
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay desa , from Sanskrit देश ( deśa ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
dèsa (plural desa -desa , first-person possessive desaku , second-person possessive desamu , third-person possessive desanya )
village
( government ) rural fourth-level division in Indonesia.
Hyponym: kalurahan
rural area
country
Usage notes
Desa was sixth-level administrative division in Java , Dutch East Indies, which was replaced by Japanese 區 , 区 ( ku ) during Japanese occupation.
Desa is used for denoting rural fourth-level administrative division in Indonesia, which is a continuation from previous Dutch and Japanese administration division.
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 .
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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 )
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
Declension of desa (4th declension)
Derived terms
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 )
country
town , village
Synonyms
Descendants
References
^ 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 scripts
𑀤𑁂𑀲 ( Brahmi script ) देस ( Devanagari script ) দেস ( Bengali script ) දෙස ( Sinhalese script ) ဒေသ or ၻေသ ( Burmese script ) เทส or เทสะ ( Thai script ) ᨴᩮᩈ ( Tai Tham script ) ເທສ or ເທສະ ( Lao script ) ទេស ( Khmer script ) 𑄘𑄬𑄥 ( Chakma script )
Etymology
Inherited from Sanskrit देश ( deśa ) .
Noun
desa m
point
place , region
country
Declension
Declension table of "desa" (masculine)
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
( obsolete ) of that , from that (followed by a feminine noun in singular )
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