xaa

Initialism of English Andalusian Arabic with x as a placeholder.

xaa

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Andalusian Arabic terms

From Proto-Cushitic. Cognates include Iraqw tlaa, Oromo dhagaa, Somali dhagax and Saho dhaa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɖaː/ [ˈɖaː]
• Hyphenation: xaa

xáa m (plural xéet m)

1. stone

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “xàa”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 170

• chá

Borrowed from Portuguese chá, itself from Cantonese 茶 (caa⁴, “tea”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la.

• IPA^(key): [ʃaˈʔa]

xaa (plural xaa-itá)

1. tea
   • 2001, Abrão Alvares Muniz, edited by Gilvan Miiller de Oliveira, Terra das Línguas (overall work in Portuguese), Manaus: SEDUC, page 92:

     Yapisika karayurú rawa, yamunhã aé chá rã, asuí yameẽ kunhã uú rã.

     We took the carajura leaves, prepared them as tea, and gave to the woman to drink.

• Aline da Cruz (2014) “Reduplication in Nheengatu” (chapter 5), in Gale Goodwin Gómez, Hein van der Voort, editors, Reduplication in Indigenous Languages of South America, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 119