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Cebuano
Etymology
Ultimately borrowed from Cantonese 茶 (caa4), possibly via Portuguese chá and next via Philippine Spanish cha.
Noun
tsa
- tea
References
- ^ Abella, Venancio María de (1874) Vade-Mecum Filipino ó manual de la conversacion familiar Español-Tagalog. Seguido de un curioso Vocabulario de Modismos Manileños., 12.ᵃ edition (overall work in Spanish and Tagalog), Escolta, Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier, á cargo de C. Miralles., page 115
- ^ “cha”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Highland Popoluca
Noun
tsa
- stone
References
- Elson, Benjamin F., Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41) (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 110
Japanese
Romanization
tsa
- The katakana syllable ツァ (tsa) in Hepburn-like romanization.
Sambali
Etymology
From Chinese 茶 (chá).
Noun
tsa
- tea
Tagalog
Etymology
Ultimately from Chinese, either through:
The sense "gossip" is a semantic loan from English tea (“information; gossip”) as in spill the tea.
Pronunciation
Noun
tsa (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐ)
- tea (plant, leaves, and drink)
- (slang) tea (information, especially gossip)
Anong tsa, mare?- What's the tea, girl?
Derived terms
Further reading
- “tsa” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
- “tsa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- 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 65
- Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 1307.
- Abella, Venancio María de (1874) Vade-Mecum Filipino ó manual de la conversacion familiar Español-Tagalog. Seguido de un curioso Vocabulario de Modismos Manileños., 12.ᵃ edition (overall work in Spanish and Tagalog), Escolta, Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier, á cargo de C. Miralles., page 115
- “cha”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Anagrams
Tarifit
Etymology
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Noun
tsa f (Tifinagh spelling ⵜⵙⴰ, plural tisawin)
- liver
- (figuratively) love, tenderness
Declension
Declension of tsa
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tisawin
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| Construct state
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tsawin
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