xa

xa

See also: XA, xA, xá, xà, xã, xă, xả, and -xă

Apalaí

Etymology

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

Noun

xa

1. tea

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Catalan

Etymology

From Persian شاه‎ (šâh).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈʃa/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃa/

Noun

xa m (plural xas)

1. shah (a king of Persia or Iran)

Further reading

• “xa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “xa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “xa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “xa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Cocopa

Noun

xa

1. water

References

• James Mack Crawford, Cocopa Dictionary (1989)

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Eastern Pomo

Noun

xa

1. water

References

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

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Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese ja, from Latin iam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃa/

Adverb

xa

1. already

Conjunction

xa

1. sometimes … sometimes

   Xa ri, xa chora. ― Sometimes they laugh, others they cries.

   Synonym: ora

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

• xan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃa/

Noun

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

Ultimately from Persian شاه‎ (šāh).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃa/

Noun

xa m (plural xas)

1. shah (title of Persian kings)

References

• “ja” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “xa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “xa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• Xans on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

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Gun

Alternative forms

• hà (Nigeria)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xà/

Noun

xà (Benin)

1. basket

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Paipai

Noun

xa

1. water

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Somali

Noun

xa ?

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

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) ba, ta, jeem, xa, kha, deel, ra, siin, shiin, dha, cayn, gayn, fa, qaff, kaaf, laan, miim, nun, waw, ha, ya, a, e, i, o, u

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Southern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian [Term?] (compare Persian خایه‎ (xâye), Northern Kurdish hêk, Ossetian айк (ajk), Avestan 𐬀𐬉𐬨‎ (aēm)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hāwyám, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”) (compare Armenian ձու (ju), English egg, Italian uovo, Russian яйцо́ (jajcó)).

Noun

xa (Arabic خا)

1. egg

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Tipai

Noun

xa

1. (Jamul) water

References

• Amy Miller, A Grammar of Jamul Tipay

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Venda

Verb

xa

1. to dry up

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [saː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [saː˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [saː˧˧]

• Audio (Hồ Chí Minh City)

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Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 賒.

Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) as 可耶 (MC kʰɑ^X jia) (modern SV: khả da), 可賒 (MC kʰɑ^X ɕia) (modern SV: khả xa) and 可車 (MC kʰɑ^X t͡ɕʰia) (modern SV: khả xa).

Displaced native ngái in the major dialects.

Adjective

xa

1. far

   Synonym: ngái

   Antonym: gần

   rất gần rất xa ― so close, (yet) so far [song name]

Derived terms

Derived terms

• xa lộ
• xa xôi

 

Etymology 2

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

Noun

xa

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

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Xhosa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kǁá]

Conjunction

xá

1. when, if [+participial]