acha

From Hausa acca.

acha (uncountable)

1. fonio, esp. Digitaria exilis (white fonio) (a cereal cultivated in western Africa)

• fonio

• Digitaria exilis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Digitaria exilis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• acha at USDA Plants database

• Aach

• IPA^(key): /ˈat͡ʃa/ [ˈa̠.t͡ʃɐ]
• Rhymes: -atʃa
• Hyphenation: a‧cha

13th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese acha (Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin ascla, from Latin assula. Cognate with Portuguese acha.

acha f (plural achas)

1. chip, sliver, splinter

   Synonyms: cavaco, estela, racho

   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 613:

     Et alí ueeriades muytos ferros de muytas lanças agudas entrar per peytos et per adágaras et per uentres, et muytas lanças caer en achas et en tranções, et muytos escudos quebrantados, et moytas lorigas rrotas et desmalladas, et muytas espadas banadas en sange

     And you would have seen there many irons and many spears to enter in breasts and shields and bellies, and many spears to fell broken in chips and splinters, and many shields smashed down, and many coats broken and unmailed, and many swords bathed in blood

   • 1555, Hernán Núñez, Refranes o proverbios en romance:

     A acha tira pra racha (proverb)

     a chip off the old block

2. billet (piece of wood used as firewood)

   Synonym: racha

• estela
• racha
• rachar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “acha”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “acha” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “acha”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (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), “acha”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “acha”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

acha

1. inflection of achar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Spanish hacha, from French hache, from Frankish [Term?].

acha

1. axe

• Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C. (2005) Pequeño diccionario ilustrado: Náhuatl de Cuentepec, Morelos‎^[1], segunda edición edition, Tlalpan, D.F., México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., published 2006, page 22

acha f (plural achas)

1. aitch (the letter h, H)

Inherited from Old Polish aha.

• IPA^(key): /aˈxa/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: a‧cha

acha

1. alternative spelling of aha

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.xa/
• Rhymes: -axa
• Syllabification: a‧cha

acha

1. third-person singular present of achać

• acha in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

• Rhymes: -aʃɐ
• Hyphenation: a‧cha

From Old Galician-Portuguese acha, from Late Latin ascla (“sliver”), from Latin astula.

acha f (plural achas)

1. billet (piece of wood used as firewood)

   Synonyms: cavaco, estilha, lenha

From Old Galician-Portuguese acha, from Old French hache (“battle-axe”), from Frankish.

acha f (plural achas)

1. battle-axe (axe for use in battle)

• machado

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

acha

1. inflection of achar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “acha”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

From Proto-Bantu *-dáca.

• (Unguja standard) IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.tʃɑ/

• Audio (Kenya):

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-acha (infinitive kuacha)

1. to leave
   • 1975, Taarifa ya mwaka ya Tume ya Kudumu ya Uchunguzi‎^[2], page 37:

     Aliacha milango ya chumba chake imefungwa kwa kufuli lililo madhubuti.

     He left the door to his room closed with a secure padlock.

2. to stop, cease, quit
3. to allow

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -achia
  • Causative: -achisha
  • Passive: -achwa
  • Reciprocal: -achana
  • Stative: -achika
  • Other formations: -achilia

• acha in Swahili Oxford Living Dictionaries, Oxford University Press

From ar (“on”) +‎ uchaf (“highest, top”).

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈaχa/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈa(ː)χa/

acha

1. (South Wales, colloquial) on

   Synonyms: ar, ar gefn

   • 2016, David Thorne, chapter 70, in Gafael mewn Gramadeg, Caerfyrddin: Y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol, page 197:

     Mae e wedi mynd acha beic

     He's gone on a bike

2. (South Wales, colloquial) with (denoting an instrument)

   Synonyms: â, efo, gyda

   • 2016, David Thorne, chapter 70, in Gafael mewn Gramadeg, Caerfyrddin: Y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol, page 197:

     Bydd e'n hollti'r coed acha bwyell

     He'll split the wood with an axe

• Acha is used with indefinite nouns. The equivalent for definite nouns when it means "on" is ar.

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “acha”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Borrowed from Spanish hacha.

acha

1. axe

Borrowed from Spanish hacha, from French hache, from Frankish [Term?].

acha

1. axe

• Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C. (2006) Pequeño diccionario ilustrado: Náhuatl de los municipios de Zacatlán, Tepetzintla y Ahuacatlán‎^[3], segunda edición edition, Tlalpan, D.F. México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 22