assa

See also: Assã, ässä, and asså

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Noun

assa f (plural asses)

1. summer snowflake, a plant of species Leucojum aestivum

Further reading

• “assa”, 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

Cornish

Interjection

assa

1. how

References

• “assa” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.

Latin

Pronunciation

• assa:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈas.sa]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈas.sa]
• assā:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈas.saː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈas.sa]

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

assa

1. inflection of assus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

Adjective

assā

1. ablative feminine singular of assus

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

assā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of assō

References

• “assa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “assa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "assa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “assa”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “assa”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “assa”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian asse, from Latin axis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈasa/ (Milanese)

Noun

assa f

1. axis, axle

Derived terms

• assada
• asson

Makasar

Etymology

From Malay sah (older spelling: esah), from Arabic صَحّ (ṣaḥḥ, “true, right, valid”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈassa/, [ˈasːa]
• Hyphenation: as‧sa

Adjective

assa (Lontara spelling ᨕᨔ or 𑻱𑻰)

1. valid (especially according to Islamic law)

   Nikka assa

   A valid marriage (according to Islamic law).

   Tena naassa sambayanna

   His ritual prayer is not valid.

2. authentic

   Haʼdeseʼ tena naassa

   A non-authentic hadith.

3. certain; established; official

   Anjo kabaraka tena naassa

   That news is not yet established / is not official.

Derived terms

affixations

• assài
• assàng
• kaassàng
• paassài
• pakaassa
• piassài

Further reading

• Cense, A. A. (1979), Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek [Makasar-Dutch dictionary], 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• ass (main form)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /¹asːa/, [ˈàsːǎ]
• Rhymes: -asːa
• Hyphenation: as‧sa

Adverb

assa

1. (colloquial) alternative form of ass (“really; sentence-final particle used to express or emphasize the speaker's feeling or attitude”)

   Det var skikkelig bra, assa. ― That was really good, seriously.

   • 2002, Jo Nesbø, Sorgenfri, page 242:

     fy faen, jeg begynte å få puls, assa

     damn, I was starting to get worked up, seriously

Usage notes

• Assa is chiefly used in informal speech, especially at the end of an utterance or exclamation. Like ass, it does not normally replace altså (“therefore; thus”) in its logical or consequential senses.

References

• “ass” in Norwegian Academy Dictionary (NAOB).

Old English

Alternative forms

• asse

Etymology

Back-formation from assen, from Celtic (compare Old Irish asan, Old Cornish asen), from Latin asinus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑs.sɑ/

Noun

assa m

1. ass, donkey

Declension

Weak:

	singular	plural
nominative	assa	assan
accusative	assan	assan
genitive	assan	assena
dative	assan	assum

Descendants

• Middle English: asse, has, as, ass (Northern or Late Middle English)
  • English: ass
  • Middle Scots: as, asse
    • Scots: ass
  • Yola: ess

Further reading

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “assa”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sa/

Etymology 1

Univerbation of ass- (“out of”) +‎ a (“his/her/its/their”).

Determiner

assa (‘his’ and ‘its’ trigger lenition; ‘her’ triggers /h/-prothesis; ‘their’ triggers eclipsis)

1. out of his/her/its/their
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 9^d24

     arna dich cách assa dligud i n-adaltras tri láthar demuin et tri bar nebcongabthetit-si

     lest everyone go out of his duty into adultery through the Devil’s machination and through your incontinence

Conjunction

assa

1. Added between two copies of a comparative adjective to indicate a gradual increase of degree: and

   ferr assa ferr

   better and better

   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12^b34a

     Nesso assa nesso, ↄdid·tánicc fessin.

     Nearer and nearer, until [Paul] has come to himself.

Etymology 2

Adjective

assa

1. alternative form of asse (“easy”)

Mutation

Mutation of assa

radical	lenition	nasalization
assa (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	assa	n-assa

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 assa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀅𑀲𑁆𑀲 (Brahmi script)
• अस्स (Devanagari script)
• অস্স (Bengali script)
• අස‍්ස (Sinhalese script)
• အဿ or ဢသ်သ (Burmese script)
• อสฺส or อัสสะ (Thai script)
• ᩋᩔ (Tai Tham script)
• ອສ຺ສ or ອັສສະ (Lao script)
• អស្ស (Khmer script)
• 𑄃𑄥𑄴𑄥 (Chakma script)

Etymology 1

Inherited from Sanskrit अश्व (aśva), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos.

Noun

assa m

1. a horse

Declension

Declension table of "assa" (masculine)

Case / Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	asso	assā
Accusative (second)	assaṃ	asse
Instrumental (third)	assena	assehi or assebhi
Dative (fourth)	assassa or assāya or assatthaṃ	assānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	assasmā or assamhā or assā	assehi or assebhi
Genitive (sixth)	assassa	assānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	assasmiṃ or assamhi or asse	assesu
Vocative (calling)	assa	assā

Etymology 2

Inherited from Sanskrit अस्य (asya).

Adjective

assa

1. masculine/neuter genitive/dative singular of ima (“this”)

Pronoun

assa

1. masculine/neuter genitive/dative singular of ima (“this”)

Etymology 3

Verb

assa

1. second/third-person singular optative active of atthi (“to be”)

Further reading

• Pali Text Society (1921–1925), “assa”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.sɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈa.sɐ/

• Hyphenation: as‧sa
• Rhymes: -asɐ

Verb

assa

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