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desa

See also: Desa, desà, desā, and de sa

Balinese edit

Romanization edit

desa

  1. Romanization of ᬤᬾᬰ.

Blagar edit

Noun edit

desa

  1. village

References edit

Catalan edit

Verb edit

desa

  1. third-person singular present indicative form of desar
  2. second-person singular imperative form of desar

Indonesian edit

Etymology edit

From Malay desa, from Sanskrit देश (deśa).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈdɛ.sa]
  • Rhymes: -sa, -a
  • Hyphenation: dè‧sa

Noun edit

dèsa (plural desa-desa, first-person possessive desaku, second-person possessive desamu, third-person possessive desanya)

  1. village
    1. (government) rural fourth-level division in Indonesia.
      Hyponym: kalurahan
  2. rural area
  3. country

Usage notes edit

  1. Desa was sixth-level administrative division in Java, Dutch East Indies, which was replaced by Japanese 區, 区 (ku) during Japanese occupation.
  2. Desa is used for denoting rural fourth-level administrative division in Indonesia, which is a continuation from previous Dutch and Japanese administration division.
  3. Due to special status of Yogyakarta, rural fourth-level division is called kalurahan, an unadapted borrowing, which is known as desa (literally “village”) in other part of Indonesia, while the urbanized one kept the adapted spelling of kelurahan.

Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

Latvian edit

 desa on Latvian Wikipedia
 
Desas

Etymology edit

From Proto-Baltic *deš-, from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to cut, to sever, to split into fibers”). A minority opinion derives desa from a different stem *deḱ- (“to remove, to take out”). Cognates include Lithuanian dešrà, dialectal dešerà, Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐌻 (tagl, “hair”), Old Norse tagl (“horsehair”), Old High German zagal (“tail, rod”), Old English tægl (“tail”), English tail, Sanskrit देशा (deśā, “fringe of cloth; lamp wick”).[1]

Pronunciation edit

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Noun edit

desa f (4th declension)

  1. sausage (meat product made of ground meat and seasonings stuffed into an animal's intestine or some similar cylindrical material)
    cūkgaļas desa ― pork sausage
    aknu desa ― liver sausage
    žāvētās desas ― dried sausages
    desās pārstrādā gaļu un iekšējos orgānus ― one processes meat and internal organs into sausages
    brālis skubināja, lai pamērcējot desu sinepēs ― the brother urged for the sausage to be seasoned in mustard

Declension edit

Declension of desa (4th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) desa desas
accusative (akuzatīvs) desu desas
genitive (ģenitīvs) desas desu
dative (datīvs) desai desām
instrumental (instrumentālis) desu desām
locative (lokatīvs) desā desās
vocative (vokatīvs) desa desas

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “desa”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Malay edit

Etymology edit

From Sanskrit देश (deśa).

Noun edit

desa (Jawi spelling ديسا‎, plural desa-desa, informal 1st possessive desaku, 2nd possessive desamu, 3rd possessive desanya)

  1. country
  2. town, village

Synonyms edit

Descendants edit

  • Indonesian: desa
  • → Min Nan: 禮些／礼些 (lése)[1]

References edit

  1. ^ Salmon Claudine. Malay (and Javanese) Loan-words in Chinese as a Mirror of Cultural Exchanges. In: Archipel, volume 78, 2009. pp. 181-208

Further reading edit

Pali edit

Alternative forms edit

Alternative forms

Etymology edit

Inherited from Sanskrit देश (deśa).

Noun edit

desa m

  1. point
  2. place, region
  3. country

Declension edit

Declension table of "desa" (masculine)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)desodesā
Accusative (second)desaṃdese
Instrumental (third)desenadesehi or desebhi
Dative (fourth)desassa or desāya or desatthaṃdesānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)desasmā or desamhā or desādesehi or desebhi
Genitive (sixth)desassadesānaṃ
Locative (seventh)desasmiṃ or desamhi or desedesesu
Vocative (calling)desadesā

Descendants edit

References edit

Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875, page 114.

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

  • preposition de + pronoun esa

Contraction edit

desa

  1. (obsolete) of that, from that (followed by a feminine noun in singular)

Related terms edit

Further reading edit

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