za

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1 1.1.1 Noun 1.1.2 References 1.2 Etymology 2 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 Anagrams 2 Bosnian 2.1 Preposition 3 Croatian 3.1 Preposition 4 Czech 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Preposition 4.2.1 Antonyms 5 Isthmus Zapotec 5.1 Noun 6 Japanese 6.1 Noun 7 Mandarin 7.1 Pinyin syllable 7.1.1 Usage notes 8 Polish 8.1 Etymology 8.2 Pronunciation 8.3 Preposition 8.4 Preposition 9 Serbian 9.1 Preposition 9.1.1 Cyrillic spelling 10 Slovene 10.1 Preposition 11 Spanish 11.1 Interjection

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology 1

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[edit] Noun

za

1. An old solfeggio name for B flat; the seventh harmonic, as heard in the aeolian string; so called by Tartini. It was long considered a false, but is the true note of the chord of the flat seventh.

[edit] References

Part or all of this page has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

[edit] Etymology 2

Shortened from pizza.

[edit] Noun

za (plural zas)

1. (US slang, early 1980s) Pizza.

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[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of AZ

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[edit] Bosnian

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za

1. for
2. by
3. in
4. during

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[edit] Croatian

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za

1. for
2. by
3. in
4. during
5. behind

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[edit] Czech

[edit] Pronunciation

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za

1. for (price)
2. in (time)
3. behind (space)

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• před (space)

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[edit] Isthmus Zapotec

[edit] Noun

za

1. cloud

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[edit] Japanese

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za (hiragana ざ)

1. ざ: hiragana letter za
2. ザ: katakana letter za

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[edit] Mandarin

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za

1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of three tones, zā, zá, or zǎ.

[edit] Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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[edit] Polish

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *za

[edit] Pronunciation

•  audio^{help, file}
• IPA: /z̪a/

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za (+ instrumental)

1. behind
2. for, after

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za (+ accusative)

1. in, for

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[edit] Serbian

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za

1. for
2. by
3. in
4. during

[edit] Cyrillic spelling

• за

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[edit] Slovene

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za

1. after (+instrumental)
2. behind (+instrumental)
3. for (+accusative)

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Interjection

za (¡za!)

1. (usually said to an animal) scat, get out of here.