borsa

Inherited from Late Latin bursa. Doublet of bossa (“bag”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈbor.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈboɾ.sa]

borsa f (plural borses)

1. (archaic) synonym of bossa
2. stock exchange

• borsari
• borsista
• emborsar

• “borsa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• “borsa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “borsa”, 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

bors +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈborʃɒ]
• Hyphenation: bor‧sa

borsa

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

Inherited from Late Latin bursa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbor.sa/

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• Rhymes: -orsa
• Hyphenation: bór‧sa

borsa f (plural borse)

1. bag, handbag, purse, briefcase

   Synonym: borsetta

2. scholarship, bursary
3. stock market

   Synonym: borsa valori

4. (by extension) market, exchange
5. (anatomy) bursa
6. (zoology) pouch

   Synonym: marsupio

7. (ecclesiastical) burse
8. sporran (bag attached on kilt front side)

• → Amharic: ቦርሳ (borsa)
• → Arabic: بورصة
• → Armenian: բորսա (borsa)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پارسه (parsa), پارسا (parsa)
  • Turkish: parsa
• → Ottoman Turkish: بورسه (borsa), بورسا (borsa)
  • Turkish: borsa
• → Slovene: borša
• → Tigrinya: ቦርሳ (borsa)

• borsa¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• borsa² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• braso, brasò, sorba

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بورسه (borsa), from French bourse.

borsa (definite accusative borsayı, plural borsalar)

1. stock market

• “borsa”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu