kesa

See also: kesä and kęsa

English

Etymology

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

Noun

kesa (plural kesas or kesa)

1. A robe worn by Buddhist monks and nuns.

Anagrams

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

Estonian

Etymology

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

Noun

kesa (genitive kesa, partitive kesa)

1. fallow

Inflection

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

Derived terms

• kesakuu

Further reading

• “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)

Hawaiian

Noun

kesa

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

Iban

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kəsaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ

Noun

kesa

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

Japanese

Romanization

kesa

1. Rōmaji transcription of けさ

Kapampangan

Etymology

Borrowed from Tagalog kaysa.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkesə/ [ˈkɛː.sə]

Conjunction

késa

1. than

   Synonym: kingsa

   Mas malagu ku kesa keka.

   I'm more beautiful than you.

Derived terms

• kesa kang
• kesa kari
• kesa king
• kesamo

Preposition

késa

1. rather than; instead of

   Synonyms: kingsamo, kingsaman

Maltese

Root
k-s-j
3 terms

Etymology

Inherited from Arabic كَسَا (kasā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.sa/
• Rhymes: -ɛsa

Verb

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

1. to cover

   Synonym: għatta

2. (construction) to plaster

Conjugation

Conjugation of kesa (Form I)

positive forms
		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

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀓𑁂𑀲 (Brahmi script)
• केस (Devanagari script)
• কেস (Bengali script)
• කෙස (Sinhalese script)
• ကေသ or ၵေသ (Burmese script)
• เกส or เกสะ (Thai script)
• ᨠᩮᩈ (Tai Tham script)
• ເກສ or ເກສະ (Lao script)
• កេស (Khmer script)
• 𑄇𑄬𑄥 (Chakma script)

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit केश (keśa).

Noun

kesa m

1. hair (of the head)

Declension

Declension table of "kesa" (masculine)

Case / Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	keso	kesā
Accusative (second)	kesaṃ	kese
Instrumental (third)	kesena	kesehi or kesebhi
Dative (fourth)	kesassa or kesāya or kesatthaṃ	kesānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	kesasmā or kesamhā or kesā	kesehi or kesebhi
Genitive (sixth)	kesassa	kesānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	kesasmiṃ or kesamhi or kese	kesesu
Vocative (calling)	kesa	kesā

Derived terms

• kesadhātu

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

kȅsa f (Cyrillic spelling ке̏са)

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

   Synonyms: vreća, vrećica, džak

Declension

Declension of kesa

	singular	plural
nominative	kȅsa	kese
genitive	kese	kȇsā
dative	kesi	kesama
accusative	kesu	kese
vocative	keso	kese
locative	kesi	kesama
instrumental	kesom	kesama

Further reading

• “kesa”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Tagalog

Pronunciation

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

Conjunction

kesa (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜒᜐ)

1. pronunciation spelling of kaysa

Zazaki

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Iranian *kacyápah.

Noun

kesa f

1. tortoise

   Synonym: kesakosi

References

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