tsa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tsa"

Cebuano

Etymology

Ultimately borrowed from Cantonese 茶 (caa⁴), possibly via Portuguese chá and next via Philippine Spanish cha.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtsa/ [ˈt̪s̪a]
• Hyphenation: tsa

Noun

tsá (Badlit spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐ)

1. tea

Highland Popoluca

Noun

tsa

1. stone

References

• Elson, Benjamin F., Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)‎^[2] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 110

Japanese

Romanization

tsa

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

Sambali

Etymology

From Chinese 茶 (chá).

Noun

tsa

1. tea

Tagalog

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃa/ [ˈt͡ʃa]
  • IPA^(key): (no yod coalescence) /ˈtsa/ [ˈt̪sa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: tsa

Noun

tsa (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐ)

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

   Anong tsa, mare?

   What's the tea, girl?

Derived terms

• eladong tsa
• magtsa
• pagtsatsa
• tsaang-gubat
• tsaang-parang
• tsarera

 

Related terms

• tekwan

 

Further reading

• “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.‎^[3], 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 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Anagrams

• Sta., tas

Tarifit

Alternative forms

• tassa

Etymology

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Noun

tsa f (Tifinagh spelling ⵜⵙⴰ, plural tisawin)

1. liver
2. (figuratively) love, tenderness

Declension

Declension of tsa
	Singular	Plural
free state	tsa	tisawin
construct state	tsa	tsawin