vasa

From Malagasy vaza.^[1]

vasa (plural vasas)

1. Any parrot of the genus Coracopsis, native to Madagascar.

From Latin vāsa.

vasa

1. plural of vas

• AVAS, AAVs, AVAs, Sava

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑsɑ/, [ˈʋɑ̝s̠ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑsɑ
• Syllabification^(key): va‧sa
• Hyphenation^(key): va‧sa

From Proto-Finnic *vasa, from Proto-Finno-Permic *wasa, borrowed from Proto-Iranian *wacáh (“yearling calf”).^[1]

vasa

1. fawn, calf (of e.g. a deer, elk or antelope)
2. (rare, dialectal) synonym of vasikka (“calf (of a cow)”)

• kili
• pentu
• poikanen
• varsa

• “1. vasa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

Borrowed from Swedish vase (Finnish Swedish vasa).

vasa

1. joist

   Synonym: vuoliainen

• “2. vasa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

vas +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɒʃɒ]
• Hyphenation: va‧sa

vasa

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of vas

vasa

1. indefinite accusative/dative/genitive singular of vasi
2. indefinite accusative/genitive plural of vasi

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwaː.sa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvaː.s̬a]

vāsa

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of vāsum
2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of vās

• "vasa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

vasa

1. imperative active second-person singular of vasati (“to dwell”)
2. imperative active second-person singular of vasati (“to clothe”)

vasa ?

2. the Pali root vas (to dwell)
   • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎^[4] (overall work in Pali), page 291; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:

     वचवसवहादीनं उकारो वस्स ये ॥६॥
     वच, वस, वह इच्चेवमादीनं धातूनं वकारस्स उकारो होति य पच्चये परे । उच्चते, वुच्चति; वुस्सति; वुय्हति ॥

     6. Vacavasavahādīnaṃ ukāro vassa ye
     Vaca, vasa, vaha iccevamādīnaṃ dhātūnaṃ vakārassa ukāro hoti ya paccaye pare.Uccate, vuccate; vussati; vuyhati.

     Vac, vas, vah etc. which have 'u' for 'va'
     Roots vac, vas, vah and so on etc. have 'u' from 'va' next to the ending 'ya'.
     Exx: uccate, vuccate; vussati; vuyhati.

4. the Pali root vas (to clothe)

From Proto-Oceanic (compare Fijian wasa).

vasa

1. ocean

• IPA^(key): /vaˈsɑː/^[1]

vasa

1. huh? what did you say? contraction of vad sade du/ni

• hursa
• va

• avas, sava

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)basəq.

vasa

1. wet

From va (“bird”) +‎ sa (“meat”).

• IPA^(key): /và.sǎ/
• Hyphenation: va‧sa

vasá

1. meat of a bird

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 64