acha
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Hausa acca
Noun
acha (uncountable)
- fonio, esp. Digitaria exilis (white fonio) (a cereal cultivated in western Africa)
Synonyms
Further reading
Digitaria exilis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Digitaria exilis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- acha at USDA Plants database
Anagrams
Galician
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Etymology
13th century. From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese acha (Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *ascla, from Latin assula. Cognate with Portuguese acha.
Pronunciation
Noun
acha f (plural achas)
- chip, sliver, splinter
- 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 613:
- Et alí ueeriades muytos ferros de muytas lanças agudas entrar per peytos et per adágaras et per uentres, et muytas lanças caer en achas et en tranções, et muytos escudos quebrantados, et moytas lorigas rrotas et desmalladas, et muytas espadas banadas en sange
- And you would have seen there many irons and many spears to enter in breasts and shields and bellies, and many spears to fell broken in chips and splinters, and many shields smashed down, and many coats broken and unmailed, and many swords bathed in blood
- Et alí ueeriades muytos ferros de muytas lanças agudas entrar per peytos et per adágaras et per uentres, et muytas lanças caer en achas et en tranções, et muytos escudos quebrantados, et moytas lorigas rrotas et desmalladas, et muytas espadas banadas en sange
- 1555, Hernán Núñez, Refranes o proverbios en romance:
- A acha tira pra racha (proverb)
- a chip off the old block
- A acha tira pra racha (proverb)
- 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 613:
- billet (piece of wood used as firewood)
- Synonym: racha
Related terms
References
- Template:R:DDGM
- “acha” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- Template:R:DDLG
- Template:R:TILG
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “acha”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Morelos Nahuatl
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish hacha, from French hache, from Frankish [Term?].
Noun
acha
References
- Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C. (2005) Pequeño diccionario ilustrado: Náhuatl de Cuentepec, Morelos[1], segunda edición edition, Tlalpan, D.F., México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., published 2006, page 22
Portuguese
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: a‧cha
Etymology 1
Inflected form of achar (“to find; to think”).
Verb
acha
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Etymology 2
From Old Galician-Portuguese acha, from Vulgar Latin *ascla (“sliver”), from Latin astula.
Noun
acha f (plural s)
Etymology 3
From Old Galician-Portuguese acha, from Old French hache (“battle-axe”), from Frankish.
Noun
acha f (plural s)
- battle-axe (axe for use in battle)
See also
Further reading
Swahili
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *-dáca.
Pronunciation
Verb
-acha (infinitive kuacha)
- to leave
- 1975, Taarifa ya mwaka ya Tume ya Kudumu ya Uchunguzi[2], page 37:
- Aliacha milango ya chumba chake imefungwa kwa kufuli lililo madhubuti.
- He left the door to his room closed with a secure padlock.
- to cease
- to allow
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Further reading
- acha in Swahili Oxford Living Dictionaries, Oxford University Press
Welsh
Etymology
From ar (“on”) + uchaf (“highest, top”).
Pronunciation
Preposition
acha
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Usage notes
- Acha is used with indefinite nouns. Its equivalent for definite nouns is ar.
References
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “acha”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
Western Apache
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish hacha
Noun
acha
Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish hacha, from French hache, from Frankish [Term?].
Noun
acha
References
- Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C. (2006) Pequeño diccionario ilustrado: Náhuatl de los municipios de Zacatlán, Tepetzintla y Ahuacatlán[3], segunda edición edition, Tlalpan, D.F. México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 22
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- Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl lemmas
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