lesa

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈlɛ.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈlə.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈle.za]

lesa

1. feminine singular of les

From les (“width”) +‎ -a. Cognate with Welsh lledu.

lesa

1. expand, spread

   Synonyms: efani, omlesa

2. unfold

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛsa]
• Rhymes: -ɛsa
• Hyphenation: le‧sa

lesa

1. genitive singular of les

• Elsa, sela

From Old Norse lesa, from Proto-Germanic *lesaną.

lesa (third person singular past indicative las, third person plural past indicative lósu, supine lisið)

1. to read
2. to pray
3. to study (university)

From Old Norse lesa, from Proto-Germanic *lesaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛːsa/
• Rhymes: -ɛːsa

lesa (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative las, third-person plural past indicative lásu, supine lesið)

1. to read [intransitive or with accusative]

   Ég er að lesa bók um forritun.

   I'm reading a book on programming.

   Þá var bréfið lesið upphátt fyrir allan bekkinn.

   The letter was then read aloud in front of the entire class.

2. to study [intransitive or with accusative]
3. to gather, pick (usually berries, etc.) [with accusative]

• lestur

• IPA^(key): /ˈle.za/^[1]
• Rhymes: -eza
• Hyphenation: lé‧sa

lesa f sg

1. feminine singular of leso

lesa f sg

1. feminine singular of leso

• Ales, Elsa, elsa, sale

• låsså (dialectal)

From Old Norse lesa, from Proto-Germanic *lesaną.

• IPA^(key): /²leːsɑ/

lesa (present tense les, past tense las, supine lese, past participle lesen, present participle lesande, imperative les)

1. a-infinitive and split infinitive form of lese

• “lesa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• Asle, Elsa, elas, esla, lase, leas, lesa, sale, sela

From Proto-West Germanic *lausijan (“to release”). Cognates include Old English līesan and Old Saxon lōsian.

• IPA^(key): /ˈleːsa/, [ˈlɛːsa]

lēsa

1. (transitive) to redeem

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 28

From Proto-Germanic *lesaną. The sense “read” is derived from West Germanic (Old Saxon or Old High German), a semantic loan of Latin legō (“gather, read”); for reading the Germanic runes, which were in use before the adoption of the Latin alphabet, the usual verb had been ráða (same as English read).

lesa (singular past indicative las, plural past indicative lásu, past participle lesinn)

1. to gather, pick
2. to read

• lestr

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “lesa”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

• sela

From Dutch lezen.

lesa

1. to read

• lesadó

lesa

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

lesa f (Cyrillic spelling леса)

1. (Kajkavian) a large gate (to the house, yard, city etc.)

   Synonym: kàpija

• IPA^(key): /ˈlesa/ [ˈle.sa]
• Rhymes: -esa
• Syllabification: le‧sa

lesa

1. feminine singular of leso

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lesa

1. that over there, yonder; class 7 remote demonstrative.