tsa

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Cebuano

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Etymology

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Ultimately borrowed from Cantonese (caa4), possibly via Portuguese chá and next via Philippine Spanish cha.[1][2]

Noun

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tsa

  1. tea

References

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  1. ^ Abella, Venancio María de (1874) Vade-Mecum Filipino ó manual de la conversacion familiar Español-Tagalog. Seguido de un curioso Vocabulario de Modismos Manileños.[1], 12.ᵃ edition (overall work in Spanish and Tagalog), Escolta, Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier, á cargo de C. Miralles., page 115
  2. ^ cha”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Highland Popoluca

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Noun

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tsa

  1. stone

References

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  • Elson, Benjamin F., Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)‎[2] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 110

Japanese

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Romanization

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tsa

  1. The katakana syllable ツァ (tsa) in Hepburn-like romanization.

Sambali

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Etymology

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From Chinese (chá).

Noun

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tsa

  1. tea

Tagalog

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Chinese, either through:

The sense "gossip" is a semantic loan from English tea (information; gossip) as in spill the tea.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tsa (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐ)

  1. tea (plant, leaves, and drink)
  2. (slang) tea (information, especially gossip)
    Anong tsa, mare?
    What's the tea, girl?

Derived terms

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Further reading

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Anagrams

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Tarifit

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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tsa f (Tifinagh spelling ⵜⵙⴰ, plural tisawin)

  1. liver
  2. (figuratively) love, tenderness

Declension

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    Declension of tsa
Singular Plural
free state tsa tisawin
construct state tsa tsawin