kesa

From Japanese 袈裟 (けさ, kesa), from Middle Chinese 袈裟 (kˠa ʃˠa), from Sanskrit काषाय (kāṣāya).

kesa (plural kesas or kesa)

1. A robe worn by Buddhist monks and nuns.

• KEAS, saké, akes, seak, aske, Kase, sake, Seka, keas

From Proto-Finnic *kesä. Cognate with Finnish kesä, Veps keza, Võro kesä.

kesa (genitive kesa, partitive kesa)

1. fallow

Declension of kesa (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		kesa	kesad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	kesa
genitive			kesade
partitive		kesa	kesasid
illative		kessa kesasse	kesadesse
inessive		kesas	kesades
elative		kesast	kesadest
allative		kesale	kesadele
adessive		kesal	kesadel
ablative		kesalt	kesadelt
translative		kesaks	kesadeks
terminative		kesani	kesadeni
essive		kesana	kesadena
abessive		kesata	kesadeta
comitative		kesaga	kesadega

• kesakuu

• “kesa”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “kesa”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• kesa in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

kesa

1. The name of the Latin-script letter X/x.

• IPA^(key): [kəsaʔ]
• Rhymes: -saʔ

kesa

1. fire ant (Solenopsis spp. (tropical fire ants))

kesa

1. Rōmaji transcription of けさ

Root
k-s-j
3 terms

From Arabic كَسَا (kasā).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.sa/

kesa (imperfect jiksi, past participle miksi, verbal noun kisi)

1. to cover

   Synonym: għatta

2. (construction) to plaster

Conjugation of kesa
		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
perfect	m	ksejt	ksejt	kesa		ksejna	ksejtu	ksew
	f			ksiet
imperfect	m	niksi	tiksi	jiksi		niksu	tiksu	jiksu
	f			tiksi
imperative			iksi				iksu

Inherited from Sanskrit केश (keśa).

kesa m

1. hair (of the head)

• kesadhātu

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish كیسه (kîse) (Turkish kese), from Persian کیسه (kise).

• IPA^(key): /kêsa/
• Hyphenation: ke‧sa

kȅsa f (Cyrillic spelling ке̏са)

1. (regional in Croatia, otherwise general) pouch
2. (regional in Croatia, otherwise general) sack, bag

   Synonyms: vreća, vrećica, džak

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkesa/ [ˈkɛː.sɐ]
• Rhymes: -esa
• Syllabification: ke‧sa

kesa (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜒᜐ)

1. Pronunciation spelling of kaysa.

Inherited from Proto-Iranian *kacyápah.

kesa f

1. tortoise

   Synonym: kesakosi

• Şenateş, Şaban (2022) “kesa”, in Ferhengê Zazakî [Dimilî, Kirmancî, Kirdî] Türkçe Açıklamalı [Zazaki dictionary with explanations in Turkish] (in Zazaki), Istanbul: Nûbihar, page 957a