dusa
Bikol Central edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Malay dosa (“sin”), from Sanskrit दोष (doṣa, “deficiency, damage, harm”), through semantic change.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dúsa (Basahan spelling ᜇᜓᜐ)
- lament
- Synonyms: sambitan, panambitan
- suffering, grief
- Synonyms: tios, penitensiya
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Latvian edit
Etymology edit
From the same stem as dusēt, made into a feminine fourth declension noun (ending -a).[1]
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
dusa f (4th declension)
- (poetic) sleep (the act of sleeping)
- saldu dusu! ― sleep well! (lit. sweet sleep)
- ar gaiļa dziesmu piecēlos no dusas ― with the cock's song (= at cockcrow) I woke up from sleep
- jutos gurdens un gāju taisni klētiņā uz dusu ― I felt weary and went directly to the little barn to sleep
- (poetic) rest, piece
- mūsu paaudze dusas nezināja ― our generation knew no rest
- lieli tauriņi, kā dusas meklēdami, laižas pa stiebriem un grīšļiem ― large butterflies, as if looking for rest, fly through grass stalks and sedge leaves
- (poetic, figuratively) death
- mūža dusa ― eternal sleep (= death)
- no beigu dusas nevar modināt! ― (one) cannot wake up (someone) from the final sleep (= death)
Declension edit
Declension of dusa (4th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | dusa | — |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | dusu | — |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | dusas | — |
dative (datīvs) | dusai | — |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | dusu | — |
locative (lokatīvs) | dusā | — |
vocative (vokatīvs) | dusa | — |
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References edit
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “dusēt”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
Tagalog edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Malay dosa (“sin”), from Sanskrit दोष (doṣa, “deficiency, damage, harm”), through semantic change.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dusa (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜐ)
- suffering; affliction
- grief; sorrow
- penance; penitence
- Synonyms: pagpapakasakit, penitensiya
- punishment
- Synonym: parusa
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Further reading edit
- “dusa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Tausug edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dusa
Derived terms edit
- baldusa (“sinner”)