kesa

See also: kesä and kęsa

English

Etymology

From Japanese 袈裟 (けさ, kesa), from Middle Chinese 袈裟 (kˠa ʃˠa), from Sanskrit काषाय (kāṣāya).

Noun

kesa (plural kesas or kesa)

  1. A robe worn by Buddhist monks and nuns.

Anagrams

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kesä. Cognate with Finnish kesä, Veps keza, Võro kesä.

Noun

kesa (genitive kesa, partitive kesa)

  1. fallow

Inflection
Declension of kesa (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative kesa kesad
accusative nom.
gen. kesa
genitive kesade
partitive kesa kesasid
illative kessa
kesasse		 kesadesse
inessive kesas kesades
elative kesast kesadest
allative kesale kesadele
adessive kesal kesadel
ablative kesalt kesadelt
translative kesaks kesadeks
terminative kesani kesadeni
essive kesana kesadena
abessive kesata kesadeta
comitative kesaga kesadega

Derived terms

Further reading
  • “kesa”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • “kesa”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
  • kesa in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Hawaiian

Noun

kesa

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

Iban

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [kəsaʔ]
  • Rhymes: -saʔ

Noun

kesa

  1. fire ant (Solenopsis spp. (tropical fire ants))

Japanese

Romanization

kesa

  1. Rōmaji transcription of けさ

Maltese
Root
k-s-j
3 terms

Etymology

From Arabic كَسَا (kasā).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkɛ.sa/

Verb

kesa (imperfect jiksi, past participle miksi, verbal noun kisi)

  1. to cover
    Synonym: għatta
  2. (construction) to plaster

Conjugation
    Conjugation of kesa
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
perfect m ksejt ksejt kesa ksejna ksejtu ksew
f ksiet
imperfect m niksi tiksi jiksi niksu tiksu jiksu
f tiksi
imperative iksi iksu

Pali

Alternative forms
Alternative forms
  • 𑀓𑁂𑀲 (Brahmi script)
  • केस (Devanagari script)
  • কেস (Bengali script)
  • කෙස (Sinhalese script)
  • ကေသ or ၵေသ (Burmese script)
  • เกส or เกสะ (Thai script)
  • ᨠᩮᩈ (Tai Tham script)
  • ເກສ or ເກສະ (Lao script)
  • កេស (Khmer script)
  • 𑄇𑄬𑄥 (Chakma script)

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit केश (keśa).

Noun

kesa m

  1. hair (of the head)

Declension
Declension table of "kesa" (masculine)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)kesokesā
Accusative (second)kesaṃkese
Instrumental (third)kesenakesehi or kesebhi
Dative (fourth)kesassa or kesāya or kesatthaṃkesānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)kesasmā or kesamhā or kesākesehi or kesebhi
Genitive (sixth)kesassakesānaṃ
Locative (seventh)kesasmiṃ or kesamhi or kesekesesu
Vocative (calling)kesakesā

Derived terms

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish كیسه (kîse) (Turkish kese), from Persian کیسه (kise).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kêsa/
  • Hyphenation: ke‧sa

Noun

kȅsa f (Cyrillic spelling ке̏са)

  1. (regional in Croatia, otherwise general) pouch
  2. (regional in Croatia, otherwise general) sack, bag

Declension
Declension of kesa
singular plural
nominative kȅsa kese
genitive kese kȇsā
dative kesi kesama
accusative kesu kese
vocative keso kese
locative kesi kesama
instrumental kesom kesama

Synonyms

Tagalog

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkesa/, [ˈkɛ.sɐ]
  • Hyphenation: ke‧sa

Conjunction

kesa (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜒᜐ)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of kaysa.

Zazaki

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Iranian *kacyápah.

Noun

kesa f

  1. tortoise
    Synonym: kesakosi

References
  • Şenateş, Şaban (2022) “kesa”, in Ferhengê Zazakî [Dimilî, Kirmancî, Kirdî] Türkçe Açıklamalı [Zazaki dictionary with explanations in Turkish] (in Zazaki), Istanbul: Nûbihar, page 957a
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