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

• Kase, akes, aske, keas, sake, saké, seak

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Estonian

Etymology

From . 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

• kesakuu

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Hawaiian

Noun

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

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Japanese

Romanization

kesa

1. Rōmaji transcription of けさ

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Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic كَسَا (kasā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛsa/

Verb

kesa (imperfect jiksi, past participle miksi)

1. to cover

   Synonym: għatta

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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)

Noun

kesa m

1. hair (of the head)

Declension

Declension table of "kesa" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	keso	kesā
Accusative (second)	kesaṃ	kese
Instrumental (third)	kesena	kesehi or kesebhi
Dative (fourth)	kesassa or kesāya or kesatthaṃ	kesānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	kesasmā or kesamhā or kesā	kesehi or kesebhi
Genitive (sixth)	kesassa	kesānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	kesasmiṃ or kesamhi or kese	kesesu
Vocative (calling)	kesa	kesā

Derived terms

• kesadhātu

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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. (Bosnia, regional Croatia, Serbia) pouch
2. (Bosnia, regional Croatia, Serbia) 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

• vreća, vrećica

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Westrobothnian

Verb

1. To step.
2. To pull oneself forth with great trouble.