asá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "asa"

Kabuverdianu

Alternative forms

• asa (Sotavento)

Etymology

From Portuguese assar.

Verb

asá

1. (Barlavento) roast

References

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈsa/ [aˈsa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: a‧sá

Etymology 1

Contrasted with así (“like this”) by analogy with aquí~acá, allí~allá.

Adverb

asá

1. (nonstandard, humorous) like that (in the second manner specified)
   • 2002, Antonio Pizza, Maurici Pla, Viena - Berlín: teoría, arte y arquitectura entre los siglos XIX y XX, Univ. Politèc. de Catalunya, →ISBN, page 77:

     No nos sentamos de tal modo porque un ebanista haya construido un sillón así o asá, sino que el ebanista construye tal sillón porque nosotros queremos sentarnos así o asá.

     We don't sit the way we do because a carpenter built a chair in this or that way; rather the carpenter builds such a chair because we want to sit in this or that way.

Derived terms

• así que asá (“whatever”)

 

Etymology 2

Verb

asá

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of asar