pesa

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See also: Pesa, pesá, pesà, pesâ, and pesä

Ajië

Pronunciation

Noun

pesa

  1. stone

References

Catalan

Pronunciation

Verb

pesa

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

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

pesa

  1. inflection of peso:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Alternative forms

Anagrams

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pesä, from Proto-Uralic *pesä. Cognate with Finnish pesä and Hungarian fészek.

Noun

pesa (genitive pesa, partitive pesa)

  1. nest

Declension

Declension of pesa (ÕS type 17i/pesa, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative pesa pesad
accusative nom.
gen. pesa
genitive pesade
partitive pesa pesi
pesasid
illative pessa
pesasse 		pesadesse
pesisse
inessive pesas pesades
pesis
elative pesast pesadest
pesist
allative pesale pesadele
pesile
adessive pesal pesadel
pesil
ablative pesalt pesadelt
pesilt
translative pesaks pesadeks
pesiks
terminative pesani pesadeni
essive pesana pesadena
abessive pesata pesadeta
comitative pesaga pesadega

French

Pronunciation

  • Audio(file)

Verb

pesa

  1. third-person singular past historic of peser

Anagrams

Galician

Verb

pesa

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

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpe.za/, (traditional) /ˈpe.sa/
  • Rhymes: -eza, (traditional) -esa
  • Hyphenation: pé‧sa

Etymology 1

Deverbal from pesare +‎ -a.

Noun

pesa f (plural pese)

  1. weighing
  2. weighbridge
  3. weighing machine

Etymology 2

Adjective

pesa f sg

  1. feminine singular of peso

Etymology 3

Verb

pesa

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

References

  1. ^ pesa in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

Kituba

Verb

pesa

  1. to give

Lingala

Verb

pesa

  1. to give

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Verb

pesa

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

Romansch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pēsum (with a later change of gender), from Latin pēnsum.

Noun

pesa f

  1. (Sutsilvan) weight

Synonyms

  • (Puter, Vallader) pais

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpesa/
  • Rhymes: -esa
  • Syllabification: pe‧sa

Etymology 1

From peso.

Noun

pesa f (plural pesas)

  1. weight (object cf. peso)
  2. (exercise) dumbbell
  3. (Latin America) balance, scales
    Synonym: báscula
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pesa

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

Further reading

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi पैसा (paisā) / Urdu پَیسَہ (paisa).

Pronunciation

Noun

pesa (n class, plural pesa) or pesa (ma class, plural mapesa)

  1. money
  2. (obsolete) paisa (unit of Indian currency)

Synonyms

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Clipping of Hokkien 白煠魚／白煠鱼 (pe̍h-sa̍h hî, literally “blanched / boiled fish”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpesaʔ/,
  • Hyphenation: pe‧sa

Noun

pesà (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐ)

  1. fish boiled in rice with ginger and vegetables

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish pesa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpesa/,
  • Hyphenation: pe‧sa

Noun

pesa (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐ)

  1. weight used on scales
Related terms

Further reading

  • “pesa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980) “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics, volume B, number 71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 139
  • Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 44
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