sisa

sisa

1. (Chulamni) eye

• Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology (2007), citing Kroeber

Attested since the 14th century. From Old French assise (“tax, imposition”). Cognate with Spanish sisa and English assize.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈsisa̝/

sisa f (plural sisas)

1. (historical) assize (a statute or ordinance, especially one regulating weights and measures)
   • 1439, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 419:

     Sisa das olas: Iten, ordenaron que qual quer persona que trouxer carga d'olas de fora parte a vender aa dita çidade, que page de cada carga d'olas, duas brancas e de un costal d'olas, hua branca, e do feixe das olas que trouxer en collo, un diñeyro, e de cada qántara, dous diñeiros

     Assize of the pots: Item, they ordered that any person who brings a load of pots from the outside for selling inside this city, that they shall pay two white coins for each load; and a white coin for a sack; and for the lot that they carry in their arms, a coin; an two coins for each amphora

2. (historical) tax, imposition or surcharge on sale good
   • 1341, M. J. Portela Silva (ed.), Documentos da catedral de Lugo. Século XIV, doc. 415:

     que de cada carrega de vino que se vender paguen viinte soldos, et la meytat desta sisa que se assi tirar seia para prol do dito conçello, et la otra meytade para nos

     of each load of wine that is sold, they shall pay twenty solidi; and half of this tax so obtained must be for the city council, and the other half for us [the bishop and chapter]

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “sisa”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sisa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “sisa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Malay sisa, from Sanskrit शेष (śeṣa, “remaining”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈsisa]
• Hyphenation: si‧sa

sisa (first-person possessive sisaku, second-person possessive sisamu, third-person possessive sisanya)

1. residue, leftover, remains

• “sisa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Compare Albanian sisë, Serbo-Croatian sȉsa／си̏са. Compare also Italian zizza.

sisa f (plural sise)

1. (especially central Italy, colloquial) teat, nipple

   Synonym: capezzolo

• sisa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Sanskrit शेष (śeṣa, “remaining”).

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /si.sə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /si.sa/
• Rhymes: -isə, -sə
• Rhymes: -a

sisa (Jawi spelling سيسا, plural sisa-sisa, informal 1st possessive sisaku, 2nd possessive sisamu, 3rd possessive sisanya)

1. residue, leftover, remains

• Indonesian: sisa

• "sisa" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, →ISBN, 2005.
• “sisa” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈsisa/

sisa

1. into, inside
2. into among

• sis-

sisa

1. into, inside
2. into among

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

sisa

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

sisa

1. flower, bloom
2. pollen, glue

• sisay

• IPA^(key): /si.ˈsa/, [ɕi.ˈsa]

sisa

1. so; therefore

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sisa.

sȉsa f (Cyrillic spelling си̏са)

1. woman's breast

• IPA^(key): /ˈsisa/ [ˈsi.sa]
• Rhymes: -isa
• Syllabification: si‧sa

sisa f (plural sisas)

1. armhole (in clothing)
2. filching

sisa

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

• “sisa”, 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

From English sister or from Dutch zuster.

sisa

1. sister

From si- +‎ umusa.

sîsá class 7 (plural tîsá class 8)

1. compassion

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Onomatopoeic.

sisa (present sisar, preterite sisade, supine sisat, imperative sisa)

1. hiss, chirp, whistle

Particularly common to describe the mating call of a heather cock.

• sis
• sisning

• sisa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sisa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sisa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)