desa

desa

1. alternative spelling of désa

desa

1. village

• Antoinette Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1 (2014), p. 165

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈdɛ.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈdə.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈde.za]

desa

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

From Malay desa, from Sanskrit देश (deśa).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈdɛsa/ [ˈdɛ.sa]

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• Rhymes: -ɛsa
• Syllabification: de‧sa

dèsa (plural desa-desa)

1. village
   1. (government) rural fourth-level division in Indonesia

      Hyponym: kalurahan

2. rural area
3. country

• Desa was sixth-level administrative division in Java, Dutch East Indies, which was replaced by Japanese 區, 区 (ku) during Japanese occupation
• Desa is used for denoting rural fourth-level administrative division in Indonesia, which is a continuation from previous Dutch and Japanese administration division
• due to special status of Yogyakarta, rural fourth-level division is called kalurahan, an unadapted borrowing, which is known as desa (literally “village”) in other part of Indonesia, while the urbanized one kept the adapted spelling of kelurahan

• “desa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Proto-Baltic *deš-, from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to cut, to sever, to split into fibers”). A minority opinion derives desa from a different stem *deḱ- (“to remove, to take out”). Cognates include Lithuanian dešrà, dialectal dešerà, Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐌻 (tagl, “hair”), Old Norse tagl (“horsehair”), Old High German zagal (“tail, rod”), Old English tægl (“tail”), English tail, Sanskrit देशा (deśā, “fringe of cloth; lamp wick”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [dæsa]

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desa f (4th declension)

1. sausage (meat product made of ground meat and seasonings stuffed into an animal's intestine or some similar cylindrical material)

   cūkgaļas desa ― pork sausage

   aknu desa ― liver sausage

   žāvētās desas ― dried sausages

   desās pārstrādā gaļu un iekšējos orgānus ― one processes meat and internal organs into sausages

   brālis skubināja, lai pamērcējot desu sinepēs ― the brother urged for the sausage to be seasoned in mustard

• (dated) desinieks, desiniece
• (colloquial) desot
• (colloquial) muļķadesa, muļķa desa

From Sanskrit देश (deśa).

desa (Jawi spelling ديسا, plural desa-desa)

1. country
2. town, village

• kampung

• Indonesian: desa
• → Min Nan: 禮些 / 礼些 (lése)^[1]

• “desa” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Inherited from Sanskrit देश (deśa).

desa m

1. point
2. place, region
3. country

• → Burmese: ဒေသ (desa.)
• → Thai: เทศ (têet)
• → Khmer: ទេស (teeh)

Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875, page 114.

• preposition de + pronoun esa

desa

1. (obsolete) of that, from that (followed by a feminine noun in singular)

• “dese”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024