rasa

Transliteration of Sanskrit रस (rasa, literally “juice; essence”). Doublet of rasam.

rasa (plural rasas)

1. An essential mental state; the dominant emotional theme of a work.

• rasabox
• rasic

• tabula rasa (etymologically unrelated)

• AARs, ARSA, ASAR, Aras, SAAR, Saar, Sara, aras, asar

rasa

1. Romanization of ᬭᬲ
2. Romanization of ᬭᬵᬲ
3. Romanization of ᬭᬵᬣ

Borrowed from Spanish raza.

• Hyphenation: ra‧sa
• IPA^(key): /ˈɾasa/

rása

1. race

   Synonym: lahi

From ras (“smooth”) +‎ -a, from Latin rāsus (“cropped, shorn”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

rasa f (plural rases)

1. (construction) trench
2. ditch

   Synonym: escorranc

• “rasa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Borrowed from German Rasse, from French race, from Italian razza, possibly from Arabic رَأْس (raʔs, “head”).

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -asa

rasa f (relational adjective rasový)

1. race (group of people)

• “rasa”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “rasa”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “rasa”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From ras- (“race”) +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -asa
• Hyphenation: ra‧sa

rasa (accusative singular rasan, plural rasaj, accusative plural rasajn)

1. racial

• rase (“racially”)

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rasa

1. third-person singular past historic of raser

• aras, Sara

From Malay rasa, from Pali rasa, from Sanskrit रस (rasa). Cognate with Thai รส (rót), Lao ລົດ (lot), Lü ᦷᦟᧆ (lod) or ᦷᦟᧆᦉ (lodṡ), Burmese ရသ (ra.sa.), Khmer រស (rŭəh). Doublet of raksa, raksi, and resi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.sa/
• Hyphenation: ra‧sa
• Rhymes: -sa, -a

rasa (plural rasa-rasa)

1. taste
2. feeling

• “rasa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

rasa f sg

1. feminine singular of raso

rasa

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

• Arsa, Sara, arsa, sarà

rasa

1. Romanization of ꦫꦱ.

rāsa

1. inflection of rāsus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

rāsā

1. ablative feminine singular of rāsus

 rasa on Latvian Wikipedia

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *rasā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁róseh₂. Cognates include Sanskrit रस (rása, “juice, liquid”), रसा (rásā, “moisture, humidity”), Latin rōs,^[1] Russian роса́ (rosá).

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rasa f (4th declension)

1. dew (moisture in the air that settles on plants in the morning)

   rīta rasa ― morning dew

   rasas lāses ― dew drops

   sasalusi rasa ― frozen dew

   samērcēt kājas rasā ― to soak one's feet in dew

2. very light rain, drizzle

   viegla rasas migla nokārās pār visu ciemu ― a light drizzle lowered its mist over the whole village

3. tiny, dew-like drops

   pierē drīz jau iemetās pirmā sviedru rasa ― on (his) forehead the first drops of sweat will soon appear

• rasains

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *rasā́ˀ (“dew”).

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rasà f (plural rãsos) stress pattern 4

1. dew

• IPA^(key): /rasa/

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• Rhymes: -sa, -a

From Sanskrit रस (rasa) or Pali rasa. Cognate with Thai รส (rót), Lao ລົດ (lot), Lü ᦷᦟᧆ (lod) or ᦷᦟᧆᦉ (lodṡ), Burmese ရသ (ra.sa.), Khmer រស (rŭəh).

rasa (Jawi spelling راس, plural rasa-rasa, informal 1st possessive rasaku, 2nd possessive rasamu, 3rd possessive rasanya)

1. taste, flavour

   rasa manis ― sweet taste

2. perception, sensation, feeling

   rasa panas ― hot feeling

3. view, opinion, viewpoint

   Synonyms: fikiran, pendapat

   pada rasa saya ― in my opinion

rasa (Jawi spelling راس)

1. to think, to reckon, to feel

   Synonyms: fikir, agak, anggap

   Aku rasa bukan tu yang kaumaksudkan.

   I think that's not what you meant.

• Indonesian: rasa

See raksa.

rasa (plural rasa-rasa, informal 1st possessive rasaku, 2nd possessive rasamu, 3rd possessive rasanya)

1. Alternative form of raksa (“quicksilver”)

• “rasa” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• rasene

rasa n

1. definite plural of ras

rasa n

1. definite plural of ras

From Old Norse rasa.

rasa (present tense rasar, past tense rasa, past participle rasa, passive infinitive rasast, present participle rasande, imperative rasa/ras)

1. alternative form of rase

• “rasa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Sanskrit रस (rasa).

rasa

1. sap, juice; taste, flavour
2. feeling, opinion, intention
3. content, substance, meaning
4. mercury

• Javanese: ꦫꦱ (rasa)
• → Balinese: ᬭᬲ, ᬭᬲ (rasa, “taste”); ᬭᬵᬣ (rasa, “love”)

Inherited from Sanskrit रस (rása).

rasa m

1. taste, flavor
2. juice
3. mercury

• → Burmese: ရသ (ra.sa.) (learned)
• → Khmer: រស (rŭəh) (learned)
• → Lao: ລົດ (lot, “flavour”) (learned)
• → Lü: ᦷᦟᧆ (lod) (learned)
• → Malay: rasa (learned)
  • Indonesian: rasa
• → Thai: รส (rót) (learned)

• Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli Language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875.

Borrowed from German Rasse, from French race, from Italian razza, possibly from Arabic رَأْس (raʔs, “head”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.sa/

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• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: ra‧sa

rasa f

1. race (group of people)
2. breed, race; group of animals with well-defined inherited characteristics

• rasa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• rasa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Hyphenation: ra‧sa
• Rhymes: -azɐ

rasa

1. feminine singular of raso

-rása (infinitive kurása, perfective -ráshe)

1. to shoot (with a weapon)
2. (of the sun) to rise

Borrowed from German Rasse, from French race, from Italian razza, possibly from Arabic رَأْس (raʔs, “head”).

• IPA^(key): /râsa/
• Hyphenation: ra‧sa

rȁsa f (Cyrillic spelling ра̏са)

1. race (group of people)

Borrowed from German Rasse, from French race, from Italian razza, possibly from Arabic رَأْس (raʔs, “head”).

• IPA^(key): /ràːsa/

rása f

1. race (a large group of people set apart from others on the basis of a common heritage)

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rasa

1. feminine singular of raso

rasa

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

From Old Norse rasa.

rasa (present rasar, preterite rasade, supine rasat, imperative rasa)

1. (often with ihop, samman, in, or ner) to collapse

   Muren rasade

   The wall collapsed

   Huset rasade samman

   The house collapsed

   Taket rasade in

   The ceiling fell in

   Livet rasade samman

   His life fell apart (figuratively)

2. to violently fall, to plummet

   Traktorn rasade nedför slänten

   The tractor fell down the slope

   Priserna rasade

   Prices plummeted

3. to rage (of a storm or the like)

   Stormen rasar

   The storm rages

4. to express strong anger, to rage

   De rasade mot förslaget

   They railed ("raged") against the proposal

5. (dated) to play wildly

• ras
• rasera

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

• Sara, asar

Borrowed from Spanish raza.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɾasa/
• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: ra‧sa

rasa (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜐ)

1. race (people of the same ancestry)

   Synonym: lahi

2. breed; stock

   Synonyms: lipi, kasta

• asar, aras, sara

Ultimately from Latin rēsīna.

rasa f (plural rase)

1. resin, viscous secretion of conifers
2. (figuratively) intrigue, scheme

• Boerio, Giuseppe (1867) “rasa”, in Dizionario del dialetto veneziano, 3rd edition, Venice: G. Cecchini, page 553