lesa

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

lesa

1. feminine singular of les

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ɛsa
• Hyphenation: le‧sa

Noun

lesa

1. genitive singular of les

Anagrams

• Elsa, sela

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse lesa, from Proto-Germanic *lesaną.

Verb

lesa (third person singular past indicative las, third person plural past indicative lósu, supine lisið)

1. to read
2. to pray
3. to study (university)

Conjugation

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse lesa, from Proto-Germanic *lesaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛːsa/
• Rhymes: -ɛːsa

Verb

lesa (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative las, third-person plural past indicative lásu, supine lesið)

1. (transitive, intransitive, with accusative) to read

   Ég er að lesa bók um forritun.

   I'm reading a book on programming.

   Þá var bréfið lesið upphátt fyrir allan bekkinn.

   The letter was then read aloud in front of the entire class.

2. (transitive, intransitive, with accusative) to study
3. (transitive, with accusative) to gather, pick (usually berries, etc.)

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

• lestur

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈle.za/
• Rhymes: -eza
• Hyphenation: lé‧sa

Participle

lesa f sg

1. feminine singular of leso

Adjective

lesa f sg

1. feminine singular of leso

References

Anagrams

• Ales, Elsa, elsa, sale

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• låsså (dialectal)

Etymology

From Old Norse lesa, from Proto-Germanic *lesaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²leːsɑ/

Verb

lesa (present tense les, past tense las, supine lese, past participle lesen, present participle lesande, imperative les)

1. a-infinitive and split infinitive form of lese

References

• “lesa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Asle, Elsa, elas, esla, lase, leas, lesa, sale, sela

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *lausijan (“to release”). Cognates include Old English līesan and Old Saxon lōsian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈleːsa/,

Verb

lēsa

1. (transitive) to redeem

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 28

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lesaną. The sense “read” is derived from West Germanic (Old Saxon or Old High German), a semantic loan of Latin legō (“gather, read”); for reading the Germanic runes, which were in use before the adoption of the Latin alphabet, the usual verb had been ráða (same as English read).

Verb

lesa (singular past indicative las, plural past indicative lásu, past participle lesinn)

1. to gather, pick
2. to read

Conjugation

Related terms

• lestr

Descendants

References

• “lesa”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Anagrams

• sela

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Dutch lezen.

Verb

lesa

1. to read

Derived terms

• lesadó

Portuguese

Verb

lesa

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

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

lesa f (Cyrillic spelling леса)

1. (Kajkavian) a large gate (to the house, yard, city etc.)

   Synonym: kàpija

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlesa/
• Rhymes: -esa
• Syllabification: le‧sa

Adjective

lesa

1. feminine singular of leso

Swazi

Etymology

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Pronoun

lesa

1. that over there, yonder; class 7 remote demonstrative.