tsa

tsa

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tsaangi.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tsaangi terms

From Proto-Athabaskan *tshaʼ (“beaver”). Cognate with Hän tsà’, Sarcee tsxa, Navajo chaaʼ, Chipewyan tsáá, Beaver chááʼ, Carrier tsaa, Ahtna tsaʼ.

tsa

1. beaver

• Sharon Hargus, Keren Rice (2005) Athabaskan Prosody, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 12

• tsaa, saa

Ultimately from Cantonese 茶 (caa⁴), possibly via Portuguese chá and next via Philippine Spanish cha.^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃa/ [ˈt͡ʃa], /ˈtsa/ [ˈt͡sa]
• Hyphenation: tsa

tsá (Basahan spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐ)

1. tea

Ultimately borrowed from Cantonese 茶 (caa⁴), possibly via Portuguese chá and next via Philippine Spanish cha.^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈtsa/ [ˈt̪s̪a]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: tsa

tsá (Badlit spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐ)

1. tea

tsa

1. stone

• Elson, Benjamin F., Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)‎^[3] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 110

tsa

1. The katakana syllable ツァ (tsa) in Hepburn-like romanization.

From Chinese 茶 (chá).

tsa

1. tea

• sa — obsolete
• cha
• saa, tsaa, chaa

Ultimately from Chinese, either through:

• Cantonese 茶 (caa⁴), possibly via Macau Portuguese chá and next via Philippine Spanish cha as recorded in Abella (1874).
• Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 茶 (chʻa²) according to Manuel (1948)

The sense “gossip” is a semantic loan from English tea (“information; gossip”) as in spill the tea.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃa/ [ˈt͡ʃa]
  • IPA^(key): (no palatal assimilation) /ˈtsa/ [ˈt͡sa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: tsa

tsa (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐ)

1. tea (plant, leaves, and drink)
2. (slang) tea (information, especially gossip)

   Anong tsa, mare?

   What's the tea, girl?

• “tsa”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “tsa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• 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 65
• Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 1307.
• Abella, Venancio María de (1874) Vade-Mecum Filipino ó manual de la conversacion familiar Español-Tagalog. Seguido de un curioso Vocabulario de Modismos Manileños.‎^[4], 12.ᵃ edition (overall work in Spanish and Tagalog), Escolta, Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier, á cargo de C. Miralles., page 115
• “cha”, 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

• Sta., tas

• tassa

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tsa f (Tifinagh spelling ⵜⵙⴰ, plural tisawin)

1. liver
2. (figuratively) love, tenderness