sasa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sasa"

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sa‧sa

Noun

sasa

1. the barred garfish (Hemiramphus far)

Hungarian

Etymology

sas +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃɒʃɒ]
• Hyphenation: sa‧sa

Noun

sasa

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of sas

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	sasa	—
accusative	sasát	—
dative	sasának	—
instrumental	sasával	—
causal-final	sasáért	—
translative	sasává	—
terminative	sasáig	—
essive-formal	sasaként	—
essive-modal	sasául	—
inessive	sasában	—
superessive	sasán	—
adessive	sasánál	—
illative	sasába	—
sublative	sasára	—
allative	sasához	—
elative	sasából	—
delative	sasáról	—
ablative	sasától	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	sasáé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	sasáéi	—

Japanese

Romanization

sasa

1. Rōmaji transcription of ささ

Malagasy

Verb

sasa

1. to wash

Related terms

	Focus (Voice)
Agent (Active)	man-form: manasa
	mi-form: misasa
	om-form: --
Patient (Passive)	sasana
	alternate: sinasa
	a-form: --
	voa-form: --
	tafa-form: --
Goal (Relative)	an-form: anasana
	i-form: isasana

Northern Valley Yokuts

Etymology

From Proto-Yokuts *sasa- ("eye").

Noun

sasa

1. (Dumna) eye

References

• Studies in American Indian Languages (Jesse O. Sawyer (editor), 1971) and Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology (2007), both citing Kroeber
• Catherine Callaghan, Proto Utian Grammar and Dictionary: With Notes on Yokuts

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀲𑀲 (Brahmi script)
• सस (Devanagari script)
• সস (Bengali script)
• සස (Sinhalese script)
• သသ (Burmese script)
• สส (Thai script)
• ᩈᩈ (Tai Tham script)
• ສສ or ສະສະ (Lao script)
• សស (Khmer script)
• 𑄥𑄥 (Chakma script)

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit शश (śaśa).

Noun

sasa m

1. hare

Declension

Declension table of "sasa" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	saso	sasā
Accusative (second)	sasaṃ	sase
Instrumental (third)	sasena	sasehi or sasebhi
Dative (fourth)	sasassa or sasāya or sasatthaṃ	sasānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	sasasmā or sasamhā or sasā	sasehi or sasebhi
Genitive (sixth)	sasassa	sasānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	sasasmiṃ or sasamhi or sase	sasesu
Vocative (calling)	sasa	sasā

References

Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875, page 465.

Quechua

Adjective

sasa

1. difficult, hard to understand

Southern Valley Yokuts

Etymology

From Proto-Yokuts *sasa- ("eye").

Noun

sasa

1. (Yawelmani) eye

References

• Studies in American Indian Languages (Jesse O. Sawyer (editor), 1971) and Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology (2007), both citing Kroeber
• Catherine Callaghan, Proto Utian Grammar and Dictionary: With Notes on Yokuts

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic [Term?].

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

Adverb

sasa

1. now

Derived terms

• kisasa (“modern, current”)
• sasa hivi (“right now”)

Interjection

sasa (plural saseni)

1. (Sheng) hello, what's up

Tagalog

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sasah (“cut or collect palm leaves for roofing”). Compare Cebuano salasa.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /saˈsa/ [sɐˈsa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: sa‧sa

Noun

sasá (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜐ)

1. nipa; nipa palm (Nypa fruticans)

   Synonyms: pawid, nipa

Derived terms

• manasa

 

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /saˈsaʔ/ [sɐˈsaʔ] (adjective)
    • Rhymes: -aʔ
  • IPA^(key): /ˈsasaʔ/ [ˈsaː.sɐʔ] (noun)
    • Rhymes: -asaʔ
• Syllabification: sa‧sa

Adjective

sasâ (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜐ)

1. enjoying great abundance

   Synonyms: sagana, masagana

2. satiated; supplied with too much

   Synonym: sawa

Noun

sasà (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜐ)

1. abundance (of supplies, etc.)

   Synonyms: kasaganaan, pagkasagana

2. feeling of having had too much of something

   Synonyms: sawa, pagsasawa

Derived terms

• kasasaan
• magpasasa
• masasaan
• pagpapasasa
• pasasa
• pasasaan

 

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /saˈsaʔ/ [sɐˈsaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: sa‧sa

Noun

sasâ (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜐ)

1. intensity; gravity; brunt

   Synonyms: sasal, tindi, sidhi, grabedad, pagkagrabe

Derived terms

• masasaan

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈsasa/ [ˈsaː.sɐ]
    • Rhymes: -asa
  • IPA^(key): /ˈsasaʔ/ [ˈsaː.sɐʔ] (obsolete)
• Syllabification: sa‧sa

Noun

sasa (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜐ)

1. cleaving in the middle
2. cleave someone with a knife downwards [16th–17th c.]

Derived terms

• sasahin
• sumasa

 

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /saˈsaʔ/ [sɐˈsaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: sa‧sa

Noun

sasâ (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜐ)

1. (obsolete) name of the Baybayin letter ᜐ, corresponding to "sa"

See also

• sa

 

Further reading

• “sasa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[2], La Noble Villa de Pila
  • page 349: “Hender) Saſa (pp) de vna cuchillada a alguno de alto abajo”
  • page 444: “Nipa) Saſa (pc) con q̃ cubren las caſas, ſacã vino della”
  • page 461: “Palma) Saſa (pc) baja como mata, hecha vn tallo que cultiuado almodo de las palmas de cocos da vn licor de que ſe haçe mejor [y mas] ſano vino que de las de cocos.”
  • page 538: “S) Saſa (pc) deſta lengua Tagala.|. ſaſa yaon .|. ᜐ . ygava mo aco dito nang iſang ſaſa, haz me aqui vna letra .S. di ſaſa, ang ypinaſulat co [ſa iyo]? note mande eſcriuir vna .S?”

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsa.sa]

Verb

sasa

1. (intransitive) to creep, crawl

Conjugation

Conjugation of sasa
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	tosasa	fosasa	misasa
2nd	nosasa	nisasa
3rd	Masculine	osasa	isasa, yosasa†
Feminine	mosasa
Neuter	isasa
† - archaic

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh