# lesa
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈlɛ.zə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈlə.zə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈle.za]

### Adjective

lesa
* feminine singular of les

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlɛsa]
* Rhymes: -ɛsa
* Hyphenation: le‧sa

### Noun

lesa
* genitive singular of les

### Anagrams

* Elsa, sela

## Faroese
### Etymology

From Old Norse lesa, from Proto-Germanic *lesaną.

### Verb

lesa (third person singular past indicative las, third person plural past indicative lósu, supine lisið)
* to read
* to pray
* to study (university)

#### Conjugation
## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse lesa, from Proto-Germanic *lesaną.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɛːsa/
* Rhymes: -ɛːsa

### Verb

lesa (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative las, third-person plural past indicative lásu, supine lesið)
* to read [intransitive or with accusative]
    Ég er að lesa bók um forritun.I'm reading a book on programming.
    Þá var bréfið lesið upphátt fyrir allan bekkinn.The letter was then read aloud in front of the entire class.
* to study [intransitive or with accusative]
* to gather, pick (usually berries, etc.) [with accusative]

#### Derived terms

* les- (“read-only”)
* lesa fyrir bréf (“to dictate a letter”)
* lesa saman (“to compare”)
* lesa spjaldanna á milli
* lesa upp (“to recite”)
* lesa upphátt (“to read aloud”)
* lesblinda
* lesblindur

#### Related terms

* lestur

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈle.za/
* Rhymes: -eza
* Hyphenation: lé‧sa

### Participle

lesa f sg
* feminine singular of leso

### Adjective

lesa f sg
* feminine singular of leso

### References

* ↑ leso in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* Ales, Elsa, elsa, sale

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* låsså (dialectal)

### Etymology

From Old Norse lesa, from Proto-Germanic *lesaną.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²leːsɑ/

### Verb

lesa (present tense les, past tense las, supine lese, past participle lesen, present participle lesande, imperative les)
* a-infinitive and split infinitive form of lese

### References

* “lesa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* Asle, Elsa, elas, esla, lase, leas, lesa, sale, sela

## Old Frisian
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *lausijan (“to release”). Cognates include Old English līesan and Old Saxon lōsian.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈleːsa/, [ˈlɛːsa]

### Verb

lēsa
* (transitive) to redeem

#### References

* Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 28

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lesaną. The sense “read” is derived from West Germanic (Old Saxon or Old High German), a semantic loan of Latin legō (“gather, read”); for reading the Germanic runes, which were in use before the adoption of the Latin alphabet, the usual verb had been ráða (same as English read).

### Verb

lesa (singular past indicative las, plural past indicative lásu, past participle lesinn)
* to gather, pick
* to read

#### Related terms

* lestr

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: lesa
* Faroese: lesa
* Norwegian Nynorsk: lesa, lese
* Norwegian Bokmål: lese
* Danish: læse
* Swedish: läsa

### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “lesa”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

### Anagrams

* sela

## Papiamentu
### Etymology

From Dutch lezen.

### Verb

lesa
* to read

#### Derived terms

* lesadó

## Portuguese
### Verb

lesa
* inflection of lesar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

lesa f (Cyrillic spelling леса)
* (Kajkavian) a large gate (to the house, yard, city etc.)
    Synonym: kàpija

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlesa/ [ˈle.sa]
* Rhymes: -esa
* Syllabification: le‧sa

### Adjective

lesa
* feminine singular of leso

## Swazi
### Etymology

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

### Pronoun

lesa
* that over there, yonder; class 7 remote demonstrative.