# kesa
## 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)
* 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.

### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Noun

kesa (genitive kesa, partitive kesa)
* fallow

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

## Iban
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [kəsaʔ]
* Rhymes: -saʔ

### Noun

kesa
* fire ant (Solenopsis spp. (tropical fire ants))

## Japanese
### Romanization

kesa
* Rōmaji transcription of けさ

## Maltese

* Root
* k-s-j
* 3 terms

### Etymology

From Arabic كَسَا (kasā).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɛ.sa/

### Verb

kesa (imperfect jiksi, past participle miksi, verbal noun kisi)
* to cover
    Synonym: għatta
* (construction) to plaster

#### Conjugation

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

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 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
* hair (of the head)

#### Derived terms

* kesadhātu

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kêsa/
* Hyphenation: ke‧sa

### Noun

kȅsa f (Cyrillic spelling ке̏са)
* (regional in Croatia, otherwise general) pouch
* (regional in Croatia, otherwise general) sack, bag
    Synonyms: vreća, vrećica, džak

#### Declension
## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

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

### Conjunction

kesa (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜒᜐ)
* Pronunciation spelling of kaysa.

## Zazaki
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Iranian *kacyápah.

### Noun

kesa f
* 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