asá

• asa (Sotavento)

From Portuguese assar.

asá

1. (Barlavento) roast

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN
• Veiga, Manuel (2012) Dicionário Caboverdiano-Português, Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro

asá (first-person singular active indicative asasá, first-person singular negative active indicative n'asasáî, noun asá) (transitive)

1. alternative form of asab

• IPA^(key): /aˈsa/ [aˈsa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: a‧sá

Contrasted with así (“like this”) by analogy with aquí~acá, allí~allá.

asá

1. (nonstandard, humorous) like that (in the second manner specified)
   • 1758, José Francisco de Isla, Historia del famoso predicador Fray Gerundio de Campazas, aliàs Zotes, Madrid: D. Gabriel Ramirez, page 316:

     Què conexion tiene con las virtudes de Santa Oroſia, que la Cathedral de Jaca eſtè en eſte ſitio, ni en el otro, y ſe llame aſſi, ò asà?

     What connexion is there with Santa Orosia's virtues, that Jaca Cathedral is here, not there, and that it's named this, or that way?

   • 2002, Antonio Pizza, Maurici Pla, Viena - Berlín: teoría, arte y arquitectura entre los siglos XIX y XX, Univ. Politèc. de Catalunya, →ISBN, page 77:

     No nos sentamos de tal modo porque un ebanista haya construido un sillón así o asá, sino que el ebanista construye tal sillón porque nosotros queremos sentarnos así o asá.

     We don't sit the way we do because a carpenter built a chair in this or that way; rather the carpenter builds such a chair because we want to sit in this or that way.

asá

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of asar