Apalaí edit

Etymology edit

From Portuguese chá, from Cantonese (caa4, tea), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la.

Noun edit

xa

  1. tea

Catalan edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Persian شاه (šâh).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

xa m (plural xas)

  1. shah (a king of Persia or Iran)

Further reading edit

Cocopa edit

Noun edit

xa

  1. water

References edit

  • James Mack Crawford, Cocopa Dictionary (1989)

Eastern Pomo edit

Noun edit

xa

  1. water

References edit

  • Sally McLendon, A grammar of Eastern Pomo (1975)

Galician edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese ja, from Latin iam.

Pronunciation edit

Adverb edit

xa

  1. already

Conjunction edit

xa

  1. sometimessometimes
    Synonym: ora
    Xa ri, xa chora.Sometimes they laugh, other times they cry.

Etymology 2 edit

From and older *jãa, from Latin Diāna. Cognate with Asturian xana, Old French gene, Romanian zână.

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

xa f (plural xas)

  1. (folklore) ghost, phantom
  2. (folklore) fairy
    • 1886, M. Nunez González, O muíño dos tíos Mariquiñas:
      un térmeno medio entre os trasnos e as almas en pena; pero que participaban un pouco máis desta última condición, sólo que eran moi pacífecas, pois nunca se soubo que se metesen con nadie non metendose primeiro con elas. A estas pantasmas chamabanlle xás; abundaban como as moscas no mes da Agosto, e eran pola súa bondá, pouco temidas dos labregos.
      ... a middle term in between elves and banshees, but a little closer to the latter ones and more peaceful, since they never messed with nobody if not disturbed first. These ghosts were called xas; they abounded as flies in August, and, because of they good temper, they were little feared by the peasants.

Etymology 3 edit

Ultimately from Persian شاه (šâh).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

xa m (plural xas)

  1. shah (title of Persian kings)

References edit

Gun edit

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(Benin)

  1. basket

Paipai edit

Noun edit

xa

  1. water

Somali edit

 

Noun edit

xa ?

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter X.

See also edit

Tipai edit

Noun edit

xa

  1. (Jamul) water

References edit

  • Amy Miller, A Grammar of Jamul Tipay

Venda edit

Verb edit

xa

  1. to dry up

Vietnamese edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Sino-Vietnamese word from .

Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) as 可耶 (MC khaX yae) (modern SV: khả da), 可賒 (MC khaX syae) (modern SV: khả xa) and 可車 (MC khaX tsyhae) (modern SV: khả xa).

Displaced native ngái in the major dialects.

Adjective edit

xa

  1. far
    Synonym: ngái
    Antonym: gần
    rất gần rất xaso close, (yet) so far [song name]
Derived terms edit
Derived terms

Etymology 2 edit

Sino-Vietnamese word from . Compare and hạ, chè and trà.

Noun edit

xa

  1. (xiangqi, chess) Rare form of xe.

Xhosa edit

Pronunciation edit

Conjunction edit

  1. when, if [+participial]