xa

See also: XA, xA, xá, xà, xã, and xả

Apalaí

Etymology

From Portuguese chá, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Chinese.

Noun

xa

1. tea

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Catalan

Etymology

From Persian شاه (šâh).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈʃa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈt͡ʃa]

Noun

xa m (plural xas)

1. shah (a king of Persia or Iran)

Further reading

• “xa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “xa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “xa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “xa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Cocopa

Noun

xa

1. water

References

• James Mack Crawford, Cocopa Dictionary (1989)

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Eastern Pomo

Noun

xa

1. water

References

• Sally McLendon, A grammar of Eastern Pomo (1975)

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Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese ja, from Latin iam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃa/

Adverb

xa

1. already

Conjunction

xa

1. sometimes … sometimes

   Xa ri, xa chora. ― Sometimes they laughs, others they cries.

   Synonym: ora

Etymology 2

From and older *jãa, from Latin Diāna. Cognate with Asturian xana.

Alternative forms

• xan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃa/

Noun

xa f (plural xas)

1. (folklore) ghost, phantom
   • 1886, M. Nunez González, O muíño dos tíos Mariquiñas:

     un térmeno medio entre os trasnos e as almas en pena; pero que participaban un pouco máis desta última condición, sólo que eran moi pacífecas, pois nunca se soubo que se metesen con nadie non metendose primeiro con elas. A estas pantasmas chamabanlle xás; abundaban como as moscas no mes da Agosto, e eran pola súa bondá, pouco temidas dos labregos.

     ... a middle term in between elves and banshees, but a little closer to the latter ones and more peaceful, since they never messed with nobody if not disturbed first. These ghosts were called xas; they abounded as flies in August, and, because of they good temper, they were little feared by the peasants.

Etymology 3

Ultimately from Persian شاه (šāh).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃa/

Noun

xa m (plural xas)

1. shah (title of Persian kings)

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• Template:R:TILG
• “xa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• Xans on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

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Somali

Noun

xa ?

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

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) ba, ta, jeem, xa, kha, deel, ra, siin, shiin, dha, cayn, gayn, fa, qaff, kaaf, laan, miim, nun, waw, ha, ya, a, e, i, o, u

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Southern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian [Term?] (compare Persian خایه (xâye), Kurdish, Ossetian айк (ajk), Avestan 𐬀𐬉𐬨 (aēm, aiam)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hāwyám, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”) (compare Armenian ձու (ju), English egg, Italian uovo, Russian яйцо́ (jajcó)).

Noun

xa (Arabic خا)

1. egg

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Tipai

Noun

xa

1. (Jamul) water

References

• Amy Miller, A Grammar of Jamul Tipay

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Venda

Verb

xa

1. to dry up

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [saː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [saː˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [saː˧˧]

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 賒.

Adjective

xa

1. far

   rất gần rất xa ― so close, (yet) so far [song name]

Synonyms

• ngái

Antonyms

• gần

Derived terms

Derived terms

• xa lộ
• xa xôi

 

Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from 車. Compare hè and hạ.

Noun

xa

1. (xiangqi, chess) Rare form of xe.

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Xhosa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kǁá]

Conjunction

xá

1. when, if [+participial]