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desa

See also: Desa, desà, desā, and de sa

Balinese

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Romanization

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desa

  1. Romanization of ᬤᬾᬰ.

Blagar

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Noun

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desa

  1. village

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Catalan

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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desa

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

Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Malay desa, from Sanskrit देश (deśa).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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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

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  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.

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Further reading

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Latvian

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 desa on Latvian Wikipedia
 
Desas

Etymology

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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

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Noun

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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

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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

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References

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

Malay

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Etymology

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From Sanskrit देश (deśa).

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

  1. country
  2. town, village

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Descendants

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

References

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

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Pali

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Alternative forms

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Alternative scripts

Etymology

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Inherited from Sanskrit देश (deśa).

Noun

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desa m

  1. point
  2. place, region
  3. country

Declension

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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

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References

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

Spanish

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Etymology

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  • preposition de + pronoun esa

Contraction

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desa

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

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