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Afrikaans
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Verb
kiesa (present kiesa, present participle kiesaende, past participle gekiesa)
- (rare) to drizzle, to rain lightly in fine droplets
- Synonyms: misreën, motreën, sifreën
2018 September 7, Jana Luther, “Jaloersbuie tot komloertjie en dambrekerbuie”, in Beeld:Sifreën aan die ander kant, val aanhoudend. Soms kiesa, of kwietsja, dit dae aaneen.- Mist rain, on the other hand, falls continuously. Sometimes it drizzles, or mizzles, for days on end.
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish كیسه (kise, kese), from Persian کیسه (kise).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkjɛ.sa/
- Rhymes: -ɛsa
- Syllabification: kie‧sa
Noun
kiesa f (diminutive kieska)
- (obsolete) pouch
- Synonyms: kabza, mieszek, sakiewka
- (figurative, literary) assets, capital
- Synonyms: kapitał, majątek, trzos
Declension
Further reading
- kiesa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- kiesa in Polish dictionaries at PWN