desa

See also: Desa, desà, desā, and de sa

Balinese

Romanization

desa

1. Romanization of ᬤᬾᬰ.

Blagar

Noun

desa

1. village

References

• Antoinette Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1 (2014), p. 165

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈdɛ.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈdə.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈde.za]

Verb

desa

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

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay desa, from Sanskrit देश (deśa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɛ.sa]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -sa, -a
• Hyphenation: dè‧sa

Noun

dèsa (plural desa-desa, first-person possessive desaku, second-person possessive desamu, third-person possessive desanya)

1. village
   1. (government) rural fourth-level division in Indonesia.

      Hyponym: kalurahan

2. rural area
3. country

Usage notes

1. Desa was sixth-level administrative division in Java, Dutch East Indies, which was replaced by Japanese 區, 区 (ku) during Japanese occupation.
2. Desa is used for denoting rural fourth-level administrative division in Indonesia, which is a continuation from previous Dutch and Japanese administration division.
3. Due to special status of Yogyakarta, rural fourth-level division is called kalurahan, an unadapted borrowing, which is known as desa (literally “village”) in other part of Indonesia, while the urbanized one kept the adapted spelling of kelurahan.

Derived terms

• kedesa-desaan
• kedesaan
• pedesaan
• perdesaan
• sedesa

 

• desa abdi
• desa kaputihan
• desa merah
• desa mijen
• desa pakuncen
• desa perdikan
• desa peristiwa
• desa praja
• desa siaga
• desa swadaya
• desa swakarya
• desa swasembada
• desa wisata
• desa wisma

 

Further reading

• “desa” 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.

Latvian

Desas

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *deš-, from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to cut, to sever, to split into fibers”). A minority opinion derives desa from a different stem *deḱ- (“to remove, to take out”). Cognates include Lithuanian dešrà, dialectal dešerà, Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐌻 (tagl, “hair”), Old Norse tagl (“horsehair”), Old High German zagal (“tail, rod”), Old English tægl (“tail”), English tail, Sanskrit देशा (deśā, “fringe of cloth; lamp wick”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dæsa]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

desa f (4th declension)

1. sausage (meat product made of ground meat and seasonings stuffed into an animal's intestine or some similar cylindrical material)

   cūkgaļas desa ― pork sausage

   aknu desa ― liver sausage

   žāvētās desas ― dried sausages

   desās pārstrādā gaļu un iekšējos orgānus ― one processes meat and internal organs into sausages

   brālis skubināja, lai pamērcējot desu sinepēs ― the brother urged for the sausage to be seasoned in mustard

Declension

Declension of desa (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	desa	desas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	desu	desas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	desas	desu
dative (datīvs)	desai	desām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	desu	desām
locative (lokatīvs)	desā	desās
vocative (vokatīvs)	desa	desas

Derived terms

• (dated) desinieks, desiniece
• (colloquial) desot
• (colloquial) muļķadesa, muļķa desa

Malay

Etymology

From Sanskrit देश (deśa).

Noun

desa (Jawi spelling ديسا, plural desa-desa, informal 1st possessive desaku, 2nd possessive desamu, 3rd possessive desanya)

1. country
2. town, village

Synonyms

• kampung

Descendants

• Indonesian: desa
• → Min Nan: 禮些／礼些 (lése)

Further reading

• “desa” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀤𑁂𑀲 (Brahmi script)
• देस (Devanagari script)
• দেস (Bengali script)
• දෙස (Sinhalese script)
• ဒေသ or ၻေသ (Burmese script)
• เทส or เทสะ (Thai script)
• ᨴᩮᩈ (Tai Tham script)
• ເທສ or ເທສະ (Lao script)
• ទេស (Khmer script)
• 𑄘𑄬𑄥 (Chakma script)

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit देश (deśa).

Noun

desa m

1. point
2. place, region
3. country

Declension

Declension table of "desa" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	deso	desā
Accusative (second)	desaṃ	dese
Instrumental (third)	desena	desehi or desebhi
Dative (fourth)	desassa or desāya or desatthaṃ	desānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	desasmā or desamhā or desā	desehi or desebhi
Genitive (sixth)	desassa	desānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	desasmiṃ or desamhi or dese	desesu
Vocative (calling)	desa	desā

Descendants

• → Burmese: ဒေသ (desa.)
• → Thai: เทศ (têet)
• → Khmer: ទេស (teeh)

References

Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875, page 114.

Spanish

Etymology

• preposition de + pronoun esa

Contraction

desa

1. (obsolete) of that, from that (followed by a feminine noun in singular)

Related terms

• desa
• desas
• dese
• deses
• deso
• desos

 

Further reading

• “dese”, 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