xa

From Portuguese chá, from Cantonese 茶 (caa⁴, “tea”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la.

xa

1. tea

Borrowed from Persian شاه (šâh).

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

xa m (plural xas)

1. shah (a king of Persia or Iran)

• “xa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “xa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “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.

xa

1. water

• James Mack Crawford, Cocopa Dictionary (1989)

From Proto-Pomo *ʔahqʰá (“water”).

xa

1. water

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃa/ [ˈʃa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: xa

From Old Galician-Portuguese ja, from Latin iam.

xa

1. already

xa

1. sometimes … sometimes

   Synonym: ora

   Xa ri, xa chora. ― Sometimes they laugh, other times they cry.

From and older *jãa, from Latin Diāna. Cognate with Asturian xana, Old French gene, Romanian zână.

• xan

xa f (plural xas)

1. (folklore) ghost, phantom
2. (folklore) fairy
   • 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.

Ultimately from Persian شاه (šâh).

xa m (plural xas)

1. shah (title of Persian kings)

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ja”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “xa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “xa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• Xans on the Galician Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gl

• hà (Nigeria)

• IPA^(key): /xà/

xà (Benin)

1. basket

xa

1. water

xa ?

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

• (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

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /siˈa/ [ˈʃa]
  • IPA^(key): (no palatal assimilation) /siˈa/ [ˈsja]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: xa

xa (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜌ) (text messaging, Internet slang)

1. alternative form of siya

From Proto-Tai *kraᴬ (“to seek”). Cognate with Northern Thai ᩉᩣ, Lao ຫາ (hā), Lü ᦠᦱ (ḣaa), Tai Dam ꪬꪱ, Shan ႁႃ (hǎa), Tai Nüa ᥑᥣᥴ (xáa), Ahom 𑜁𑜡 (khā) or 𑜁𑜞𑜠 (khra), Zhuang ra, Saek หร่า, Thai หา (hǎa).

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [saː˧˧]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [saː˦˥]

xa (賒,車,俥)

1. to search, look for

   xa pi̱ noọng ― to search for brothers

   xa fừn ― to gather firewood

   xa chèn ― to earn money

2. to want

   Mầư xa thai lỏ?

   You wanna die?

• tím
• thắp

• Hoàng Văn Ma, Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội
• Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[1][2] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
• Dương Nhật Thanh, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[3] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]

xa

1. (Jamul) water

• Amy Miller, A Grammar of Jamul Tipay

xa

1. to dry up

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

• Audio (Saigon):

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 賒.

Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) as 可耶 (MC khaX yae) (modern SV: khả da), 可賒 (MC khaX syae) (modern SV: khả xa) and 可車 (MC khaX tsyhae) (modern SV: khả xa).

Displaced native ngái in the major dialects.

xa

1. far

   Synonym: ngái

   Antonym: gần

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

Sino-Vietnamese word from 車. Compare hè and hạ, chè and trà.

xa

1. (xiangqi, chess) rare form of xe

Sino-Vietnamese word from 奢.

xa

1. (only in compounds) extravagant, wasteful

• IPA^(key): [kǁá]

xá

1. when, if [with participial]