asa

asa

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Pare.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Pare terms

asa

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

Banjarese cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : asa

From Proto-Malayic *əsa(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *isa (*əsa), from Proto-Austronesian *isa (*əsa).

asa

1. one

• Adelaar, K. A. (1992), Proto-Malayic: The reconstruction of its phonology and parts of its lexicon and morphology‎^[1], Canberra: The Australian National University
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*isa”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔasa/ [ˈʔa.s̪ɐ]
• Hyphenation: a‧sa

asa (Badlit spelling ᜀᜐ)

1. (interrogative) where

   Asa nimo gipalit ang sapatos?

   Where did you buy the shoes?

Borrowed from Sanskrit आशा (āśā). Compare Tagalog asa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔasa/ [ˈʔa.sa]
• Hyphenation: a‧sa

ása (plural arasa, Basahan spelling ᜀᜐ)

1. to hope; to expect

   Synonyms: laom, mawot, arang

• Audio:

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asa

1. abbreviation of als en slechts als (“iff”)

• aas

From Old Galician-Portuguese (its derivative asado is attested since 1519), from Vulgar Latin asa, from Latin ansa. Compare Portuguese asa, Spanish asa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈasa/

asa f (plural asas)

1. handle (of a container)

   Synonym: anga

2. (rare) wing

   Synonym: á

   • 1697, Juan Antonio Torrado, Fala o corvo:

     Fala o corbo, escoyten todos:
     Eu veño con asas negras
     Cortando os ventos de longe
     Para chegar à estas festas.

     The raven speaks, listen everyone:
     "I come with black wings
     Cutting the winds from afar
     To arrive to these feasts"

• asa de cántaro
• asado

• “asa”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “asa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “asa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “asa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

asa

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

Borrowed from Bengali আশা (aśa, “hope, expectation”).

asa

1. hope

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈasa/ [ˈa.sa]
• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: a‧sa

From Malay asa, from Sanskrit आशा (āśā).

asa (plural asa-asa)

1. (uncommon) synonym of harapan (“hope”)

From Minangkabau asa, from Sanskrit आशा (āśā).

asa

1. (dialectal, uncommon) synonym of sangka (“to think, guess, suspect”)

asa

1. (dialectal, uncommon) synonym of sengaja (“intentionally”)

Probably from Sundanese.

asa (plural asa-asa)

1. a roof seam, made of coconut leaves

• “asa”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

asa

1. inflection of as:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

Inherited from Latin assēm (“axe”).

asa f

1. axe

• Antonio Pellizzer; Giovanni Pellizzer (1992), Vocabulario del dialetto di Rovigno d'Istria, page 69
• Sandro Cergna (2015), Vocabolario del dialetto di Valle d'Istria, →ISBN, page 29

asa

1. Rōmaji transcription of あさ

• asá (Barlavento)

From Portuguese assar.

asa

1. (Sotavento) roast

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015), Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN
• Veiga, Manuel (2012), Dicionário Caboverdiano-Português, Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro

asa

1. price

asa

1. Latin spelling of аса (asa, “very, extremely”)

From Proto-Italic *āzā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.sa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.s̬a]

āsa f (genitive āsae); first declension

1. archaic form of āra

• “asa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "asa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

asa

1. inflection of ass:
   1. genitive masculine singular
   2. nominative feminine singular

• IPA^(key): /ˈasa/, [ˈa.sa]
• Hyphenation: a‧sa

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

asa (Lontara spelling ᨕᨔ)

1. precategorial root related to the roaring or crashing of waves

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

asa (Lontara spelling ᨕᨔ)

1. a type of small chestnut

• Cense, A. A. (1979), Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek [Makasar-Dutch dictionary], 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

From Sanskrit आशा (āśā, “hope”).

• (Standard Literary) IPA^(key): /ˈasa/ [ˈa.sa]

asa (Jawi spelling اسا, plural asa-asa or asa²)

1. hope (belief that something wished for can happen)

• harapan / هارڤن

asa

1. to hope (to want something to happen)

• harap / هارڤ

• berputus asa (to give up)

• Indonesian: asa

• "asa" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

asa

1. one

• Mark Donohue (1999), A Grammar of Tukang Besi, Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 535

Related to ese and jest, and even English yeast. Some of the senses are influenced by Middle Low German.

• ase (e infinitive)

asa (present tense es, past tense os, supine ase, past participle asen, present participle asande, imperative as)

1. to swell (as a result of fermentation), ferment
2. to boil, surge

asa (present tense asar, past tense asa, past participle asa, passive infinitive asast, present participle asande, imperative asa/as)

1. to make a lot of noise
2. to struggle, strive, toil

• (to yeast, ferment): gjære, ese, svelle (opp)
• (to boil, surge): bruse opp, gøyse
• (to make noise): bråke, støye, mase
• (to struggle): streve, kave, mase

• as n
• asen (adjective)
• esa, ese (verb)
• jest m

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

asa n

1. definite plural of as

• “asa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.sa]

  • Audio:

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asa

1. to bring

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.sa/
• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: a‧sa

asa

1. genitive singular of as

• Rhymes: -azɐ
• Hyphenation: a‧sa

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese asa, from Latin ānsa (“handle”). Merged with Old Galician-Portuguese aa (“wing”), from Latin āla (“wing”). Cognate with Galician asa (“handle”), Spanish asa (“handle”). Doublet of ansa.

asa f (plural asas)

1. wing (part of an animal or airplane)

   Synonyms: á, ala

   Eu encontrei um pássaro com uma asa partida.

   I found a bird with a broken wing.

2. handle (part of an object which is held in the hand when used or moved)

   Peguei no balde pela asa.

   I picked up the bucket by the handle.

• aza (obsolete)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

asa

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

• “asa”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “asa”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “asa”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “asa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• asạ

From Proto-Central Pacific *aza-, from Proto-Oceanic *acan, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *ajan, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *ajan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ajan. Cognate with Fijian yaca.

asa (short form as)

1. (in general) name
2. (figuratively) name, reputation, honour

   Synonyms: poa, rogo

• fakfiti, fakiti (“title, descriptive name”)
• sigoa (“namesake”)

• Churchward, C.M. (1940), “asa”, in Rotuman Grammar and Dictionary‎^[2], Sydney, Australia: Methodist Church of Australasia, →ISBN, page 176
• Inia, Elizabeth K.; Arntsen, Sofie; Schmidt, Hans; Rensel, Jan; Howard, Alan (1998), “name asḁ”, in A New Rotuman Dictionary: An English–Rotuman Wordlist‎^[3], Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific, revision of Rotuman Grammar and Dictionary by Churchward, C.M., →ISBN, pages 89, 161

asa

1. tree branch

• Bayarma Khabtagaeva, Dagur Elements in Solon Evenki, 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈasa/ [ˈa.sa]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: a‧sa

Inherited from Latin ānsa. Cognate with Galician asa and Portuguese asa.

asa f (plural asas)

1. handle of a vessel or container

   Alternative form: ansa (Spain)

   Synonym: brazal (archaic)

2. (Germanía) ear

• Before feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like asa, the singular definite article takes the form of el (otherwise reserved for masculine nouns) instead of the usual la: el asa. This includes the contracted forms al and del (instead of a la and de la, respectively): al asa, del asa.

This also applies to the indefinite article, which takes the form of un, which is otherwise used with masculine nouns (although the standard feminine form una also occurs): un asa or una asa. The same is true with determiners algún/alguna and ningún/ninguna, as well as for numerals ending with 1 (e.g., veintiún/veintiuna).

However, if another word intervenes between the article and the noun, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (la, una etc.) are used: la mejor asa, una buena asa.

• In these cases, el and un are not masculine but feminine, deriving from Latin illa and una, respectively, even though they are identical in form to the corresponding masculine singular articles. Thus, they are allomorphs of the feminine singular articles la and una.
• The use of these allomorphs does not change the gender agreement of the adjectives modifying the feminine noun: el asa única, un(a) asa buena.
• In the plural, the usual feminine plural articles and determiners (las, unas, etc.) are always used.

asa

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

• “asa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

From Sanskrit रस (rasa, “taste, feeling”)

asa (Sundanese script ᮃᮞ)

1. to taste
2. to feel; to reckon; to suppose

   Asa aya nu hilap...

   Seems like there's something I forgot...

3. (often reduplicated) to doubt; to hesitate

   Tong asa-asa daharna

   Don't hesitate to eat it.

• Coolsma, S (1913), Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij
• "asa" in Maman Sumantri; Atjep Djamaludin; Achmad Patoni; R.H. Moch. Koerdie; M.O. Koesman; Epa Sjafei Adisastra. (1985), Kamus Sunda-Indonesia [Sundanese-Indonesian Dictionary] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Department of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia

Borrowed from Sanskrit आशा (āśā). Compare Central Bikol asa, Malay asa, and Tamil ஆசை (ācai).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔasa/ [ˈʔaː.sɐ]
• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: a‧sa

asa (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜐ)

1. act of hoping
2. expectation; anticipation
3. dependence; reliance
4. (colloquial) belief

• → Aklanon: asa

asa (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜐ)

1. you wish!

• asa ka, asa ka pa

• “asa”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “asa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016), Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 51
• Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo de Tavera (1887), El sanscrito en la lengua tagalog‎^[4] (in Spanish), Paris: Imprimerie de la Faculté de Médecine, A. Davy, page 17
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de; Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860), Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves, y coordinado por…, ultimamente aumentado y corregido por varios religiosos de la Orden de Agustinos calzados.‎^[5] (overall work in Spanish and Classical Tagalog), Manila: Ramírez y Giraudier.

• saa

Inherited from Common Bantu *-játia, equivalent to -ata +‎ -y- (short causative infix).

• IPA^(key): /áːsa/

-asa (infinitive okwasa) (transitive)

1. causative of -ata:
   1. to split, chop

      Synonym: -leremura

• Nominal derivations:
  • ekyasi (“split firewood; plank”)

• Kaji, Shigeki (2007), A Rutooro Vocabulary‎^[6], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, pages 135, 291
• Rubongoya, L. T. (2013), Katondogorozi y'Orunyoro-Rutooro n'Orungereza [Runyoro–Rutooro-English and English-Runyoro–Rutooro dictionary]‎^[7], Kampala: Modrug Publishers, →ISBN, page 9
• Entry 9491 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish عصا, from Arabic عَصَا (ʕaṣā)

asa (definite accusative asayı, plural asalar)

1. scepter
2. stick used to walk

• “asa”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “asa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Yami cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : asa

From Proto-Philippine [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *isa, *əsa, from Proto-Austronesian *isa, *əsa, *asa.

asa

1. one

From a- (agentive nominaliser) +‎ sà (“to sing”).

• IPA^(key): [ʔʌ̄.sʌ̀]
• Hyphenation: a‧sa

asà

1. singer

• Philip Thangliènmâng (2010), Minimal dictionary and Self-tutor Functional Grammar in Zo-English-Hindi, New Delhi: Zoculsin, →ISBN, page 68