kissa

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Borrowed from Swedish kisse, kissa (“cat”), with other dialectal forms including kise, kiss.^[1] Probably ultimately from a cat call "kis-kis-kis" used throughout Europe (see kis; also compare Russian ки́са (kísa)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkisːɑ/,
• Rhymes: -isːɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): kis‧sa

kissa

1. cat (Felis catus)

   Synonyms: (colloquial) katti, (specific) kesykissa, kotikissa, (diminutive) mirri, kissimirri, (childish) kissi, kisu

2. Synonym of kissaeläin (“feline”)
3. (slang) cat, chick, fox (a sexy young woman)

• kissanpentu
• kolli

• Kven: kissa

• “kissa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

• Saksi, aksis, kassi, saksi

• IPA^(key): /kís.sà/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

kissà f (plural kissōshī, possessed form kissàr̃)

1. intrigue, underhand dealing, any deceitful means to accomplishing something

Borrowed from an Indo-European language (compare Swedish kisse and Russian киса (kisa)). Cognates include Finnish kissa and Karelian kišša.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkisːɑ/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkisːɑ/,
• Rhymes: -isː, -isːɑ
• Hyphenation: kis‧sa

kissa

1. cat
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 23:

     Kiko ono kissa. Emma ono hiiri.

     Kiko is a cat. Emma is a mouse.

   • 1937, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 86:

     A siä miks kissaa obiƶoitat?

     And why do you offend a cat?

• kasi

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “кисса”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 679
• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 8

kissa

1. Rōmaji transcription of きっさ

kissa (genitive kissan, partitive kissua)

1. Superseded spelling of kišša.

• P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) “kissa”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN

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Inherited from Finnish kissa (“cat”), from Swedish kissa (“(female) cat”), feminine form of kisse (“cat, kitty”), from the interjection kiss.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkisːɑ/

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• Rhymes: -isːɑ
• Hyphenation: kis‧sa

kissa (genitive kissan, partitive kissaa)

1. a cat (a domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet.) (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. a female cat

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kissa

1. masculine/neuter genitive/dative singular of ka

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɪsˌa/

Onomatopoeic based on pissa.

kissa (present kissar, preterite kissade, supine kissat, imperative kissa)

1. to pee

   Synonyms: pinka, pissa

• kissa på sig

• kissare

• sittkissare
• ståkissare

Feminine form of kisse.

kissa c

1. (colloquial, endearing) (female) cat, pussy-cat

   Synonym: katta

• kissa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• kissa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• kissa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• Isaks

kissa

1. folktale

kissa

1. to tell (a fictitious story)