pesa

• IPA^(key): [pesa]

pesa

1. stone

• Leenhardt, M. (1935) Vocabulaire et grammaire de la langue Houaïlou, Paris: Institut d'ethnologie. Cited in: "Houaïlou" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "Ajiø" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈpɛ.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈpə.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpe.za]
• Rhymes: -ɛza

pesa

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛsa]
• Rhymes: -ɛsa
• Hyphenation: pe‧sa

pesa

1. inflection of peso:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

• (plural forms): pesos

• pase

From Proto-Finnic *pesä, from Proto-Uralic *pesä. Cognate with Finnish pesä and Hungarian fészek.

pesa (genitive pesa, partitive pesa)

1. nest

Declension of pesa (ÕS type 17i/pesa, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		pesa	pesad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	pesa
genitive			pesade
partitive		pesa	pesi pesasid
illative		pessa pesasse	pesadesse pesisse
inessive		pesas	pesades pesis
elative		pesast	pesadest pesist
allative		pesale	pesadele pesile
adessive		pesal	pesadel pesil
ablative		pesalt	pesadelt pesilt
translative		pesaks	pesadeks pesiks
terminative		pesani	pesadeni
essive		pesana	pesadena
abessive		pesata	pesadeta
comitative		pesaga	pesadega

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pesa

1. third-person singular past historic of peser

• sape

pesa

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.za/, (traditional) /ˈpe.sa/^[1]
• Rhymes: -eza, (traditional) -esa
• Hyphenation: pé‧sa

Deverbal from pesare +‎ -a.

pesa f (plural pese)

1. weighing
2. weighbridge
3. weighing machine

pesa f sg

1. feminine singular of peso

pesa

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

• aspe, sape

pesa

1. to give

pesa

1. to give

pesa

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

• paisa (Rumantsch Grischun)
• peisa (Sursilvan, Surmiran)

From Vulgar Latin *pēsum (with a later change of gender), from Latin pēnsum.

pesa f

1. (Sutsilvan) weight

• (Puter, Vallader) pais

• IPA^(key): /ˈpesa/ [ˈpe.sa]
• Rhymes: -esa
• Syllabification: pe‧sa

From peso.

pesa f (plural pesas)

1. weight (object cf. peso)
2. (exercise) dumbbell
3. (Latin America) balance, scales

   Synonym: báscula

• romana
• balanza

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pesa

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

• “pesa”, 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

Borrowed from Hindi पैसा (paisā) / Urdu پَیسَہ (paisa).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛ.sa/

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pesa class V or IX (plural mapesa class VI or pesa class X)

1. money

   Synonyms: fedha, (Tanzania) hela

2. (history) paisa (unit of Indian currency)

Clipping of Hokkien 白煠魚 / 白煠鱼 (pe̍eh-sa̍h hî, literally “blanched / boiled fish”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpesaʔ/ [ˈpɛː.sɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -esaʔ
• Syllabification: pe‧sa

pesà (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐ)

1. fish boiled in rice with ginger and vegetables

Borrowed from Spanish pesa.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpesa/ [ˈpɛː.sɐ]
• Rhymes: -esa
• Syllabification: pe‧sa

pesa (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐ)

1. weight used on scales

• “pesa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980) “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics, volume B, number 71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 139
• Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 44