tassa

tassa (plural tassas)

1. A large Indian drum, traditionally played at weddings.
   • 1999, Kenrick P. Thomas, Panriga: Tacarigua's Contribution to the Evolution of the Steelband Phenomenon in Trinidad and Tobago:

     African men in the district also excelled on the tassa drums at the Indian weddings and hosay festivals, playing alongside their Indian fellow villagers.

   • 2006, Hemchand Gossai, River Crossings: Memories of a Journey, →ISBN:

     He was widely recognized as the finest tassa player in the area. Some may be skilled, but his was a gift.

   • 2013, King Liar, →ISBN, page 106:

     Together, the four tassa players produced an intoxicating rhythm that held the visitors almost entranced. A group of old Indian women in bright coloured saris were waiting for the tassa group to finish their performance so that they might start singing the traditional wedding songs.

• ASATs, StaaS, Astas

Borrowed from Arabic طاسة (ṭāsa).

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

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -asa

tassa f (plural tasses)

1. cup, mug
2. basin, bowl (of a toilet)

• “tassa”, 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
• “tassa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “tassa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tassa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

tassa

1. third-person singular past historic of tasser

tassa (plural tassas)

1. cup

• IPA^(key): /ˈtas.sa/
• Rhymes: -assa
• Hyphenation: tàs‧sa

From Latin taxa.

tassa f (plural tasse)

1. tax, duty, dues

• esentasse

• tassabile
• tassametro
• tassare
• tassazione

• imposta
• tasso

tassa

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

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

• stasa

tassa

1. masculine/neuter genitive/dative singular of ta (“that”)

tassa

1. (demonstrative) to him, to it, to that
2. (demonstrative) his, its, of that
3. therefore

tass +‎ -a, or onomatopoeic.

tassa (present tassar, preterite tassade, supine tassat, imperative tassa)

1. to walk quietly (for example so as to not wake up someone asleep)

• tassa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tassa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tassa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• satsa