sasa

• Hyphenation: sa‧sa

sasa

1. the barred garfish (Hemiramphus far)

sas +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

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

sasa

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

sasa

1. Rōmaji transcription of ささ

sasa

1. to wash

From Malay sesak.

• IPA^(key): /saˈsa/
• Hyphenation: sa‧sa

sasa

1. tight

   Kita pe calana lama so sasa.

   My old pants are already tight.

From Proto-Yokuts *sasa- ("eye").

sasa

1. (Dumna) eye

• Studies in American Indian Languages (Jesse O. Sawyer (editor), 1971) and Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology (2007), both citing Kroeber
• Catherine Callaghan, Proto Utian Grammar and Dictionary: With Notes on Yokuts

Inherited from Sanskrit शश (śaśa).

sasa m

1. hare

Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875, page 465.

sasa

1. difficult, hard to understand

From Proto-Yokuts *sasa- ("eye").

sasa

1. (Yawelmani) eye

• Studies in American Indian Languages (Jesse O. Sawyer (editor), 1971) and Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology (2007), both citing Kroeber
• Catherine Callaghan, Proto Utian Grammar and Dictionary: With Notes on Yokuts

Borrowed from Arabic [Term?].

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sasa

1. now

• kisasa (“modern, current”)
• sasa hivi (“right now”)

sasa (plural saseni)

1. (Sheng) hello, what's up

   Synonyms: vipi, niaje

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sasah (“cut or collect palm leaves for roofing”). Compare Cebuano salasa.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /saˈsa/ [sɐˈsa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: sa‧sa

sasá (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜐ)

1. nipa; nipa palm (Nypa fruticans)

   Synonyms: pawid, nipa

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /saˈsaʔ/ [sɐˈsaʔ] (adjective)
    • Rhymes: -aʔ
  • IPA^(key): /ˈsasaʔ/ [ˈsaː.sɐʔ] (noun)
    • Rhymes: -asaʔ
• Syllabification: sa‧sa

sasâ (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜐ)

1. enjoying great abundance

   Synonyms: sagana, masagana

2. satiated; supplied with too much

   Synonym: sawa

sasà (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜐ)

1. abundance (of supplies, etc.)

   Synonyms: kasaganaan, pagkasagana

2. feeling of having had too much of something

   Synonyms: sawa, pagsasawa

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /saˈsaʔ/ [sɐˈsaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: sa‧sa

sasâ (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜐ)

1. intensity; gravity; brunt

   Synonyms: sasal, tindi, sidhi, grabedad, pagkagrabe

• masasaan

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈsasa/ [ˈsaː.sɐ]
    • Rhymes: -asa
  • IPA^(key): /ˈsasaʔ/ [ˈsaː.sɐʔ] (obsolete)
• Syllabification: sa‧sa

sasa (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜐ)

1. cleaving in the middle
2. cleave someone with a knife downwards [16th–17th c.]

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /saˈsaʔ/ [sɐˈsaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: sa‧sa

sasâ (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜐ)

1. (obsolete) name of the Baybayin letter ᜐ, corresponding to "sa"

• “sasa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[2], La Noble Villa de Pila
  • page 349: “Hender) Saſa (pp) de vna cuchillada a alguno de alto abajo”
  • page 444: “Nipa) Saſa (pc) con q̃ cubren las caſas, ſacã vino della”
  • page 461: “Palma) Saſa (pc) baja como mata, hecha vn tallo que cultiuado almodo de las palmas de cocos da vn licor de que ſe haçe mejor [y mas] ſano vino que de las de cocos.”
  • page 538: “S) Saſa (pc) deſta lengua Tagala.|. ſaſa yaon .|. ᜐ . ygava mo aco dito nang iſang ſaſa, haz me aqui vna letra .S. di ſaſa, ang ypinaſulat co [ſa iyo]? note mande eſcriuir vna .S?”

• IPA^(key): [ˈsa.sa]

sasa

1. (intransitive) to creep, crawl

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh