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# Emesa
## English
### Alternative forms

* Emessa

### Etymology

From Latin Emesa, from Ancient Greek Ἔμεσα (Émesa), ultimately from Aramaic חֲמָת (Ḥamāth, “hindrance, frustration, fortress”) + צובָא (Ṣōwḇā, “near, surrounding, station”). Doublet of Homs.

### Pronunciation

* (British) IPA: /ˈɛmɛsə/, /ˈɛməsə/
* (US) IPA: /ˈɛməsə/

### Proper noun

Emesa
* (historical) Former name of Homs, a city in Syria.

#### Derived terms

* Emesan

#### Related terms

* Emesene
* Emesenian

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ “Emesa”, in Collins English Dictionary.
* ↑ “Emesa”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* ↑ “Emesa”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
* Worcester, Joseph E. (1861) An Elementary Dictionary of the English Language‎, Boston: Swan, Brewer & Tileston, page 334

### Anagrams

* Amees, Aseem, Eames, Maese, Mease, Samee, amese, eames, mease

## Czech
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἔμεσα (Émesa).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɛmɛsa]

### Proper noun

Emesa f (relational adjective emeský)
* Emesa

#### Declension

This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.

## German
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἔμεσα (Émesa).

### Proper noun

Emesa n (proper noun, genitive Emesas or (optionally with an article) Emesa)
* Emesa (ancient city in modern Syria; modern Homs)

#### Derived terms

* Emeser

#### Related terms

* Emesene
* Emesener
* emesenisch

## Italian
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἔμεσα (Émesa).

### Proper noun

Emesa f
* Emesa

#### Related terms

* emesena
* Emesene
* emeseno
* emeseniana
* emeseniano

### Anagrams

* esame

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* Emesus
* Emisa
* Emissa

### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἔμεσα (Émesa).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈe.me.sa/, [ˈɛmɛs̠ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈe.me.sa/, [ˈɛːmes̬ä]

### Proper noun

Emesa f sg (genitive Emesae); first declension
* Emesa

#### Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

#### Related terms

* emesēnus

### References

* Emesa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “Emesa”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Emesa, from Ancient Greek Ἔμεσα (Émesa).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛˈmɛ.sa/
* Rhymes: -ɛsa
* Syllabification: E‧me‧sa

### Proper noun

Emesa f
* (historical) Emesa

#### Related terms

* emeseński

### Further reading

* Emesa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
# αὐχμός
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

According to Beekes, a compound of αὖος (aûos, “dry”) and an element "-χμ-" from the word for earth (see χθών (khthṓn, “ground, soil”)). A similar formation can be found in νεοχμός (neokhmós, “new”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /au̯kʰ.mós/ → /aɸxˈmos/ → /afxˈmos/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /au̯kʰ.mós/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /aʍkʰˈmos/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /aɸxˈmos/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /afxˈmos/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /afxˈmos/

### Noun

αὐχμός • (aukhmós) m (genitive αὐχμοῦ); second declension
* drought, dearth
* squalor, as effect of drought
* dryness, meagreness (of style)
* thirst

#### Derived terms

* αὐχμαλέος (aukhmaléos)
* αὐχμέω (aukhméō)
* αὐχμή (aukhmḗ)
* αὐχμήεις (aukhmḗeis)
* αὐχμηρός (aukhmērós)
* αὐχμώδης (aukhmṓdēs)
* αὔχμωσις (aúkhmōsis)

### Further reading

* “αὐχμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “αὐχμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* αὐχμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* αὐχμός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
* Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
# nito
## Cebuano
### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ni‧to

### Noun

nito
* any of several climbing fern species:
** Japanese climbing fern (Lygodium japonicum)
** red finger fern (Lygodium circinnatum)
** maidenhair creeper (Lygodium flexuosum)
** scansorial climbing fern (Lygodium scandens)

#### Derived terms

* nito pula
* nito puti

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From German Niet and Polish nit.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈnito]
* Rhymes: -ito
* Hyphenation: ni‧to

### Noun

nito (accusative singular niton, plural nitoj, accusative plural nitojn)
* rivet

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Possibly from ng +‎ ito. See also ng (n-ang), ni (n-i), niyan (n-iyan), and other Tagalog demonstrative pronouns.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /niˈto/ [n̪ɪˈt̪o]
* Rhymes: -o
* Syllabification: ni‧to

### Determiner

nitó (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜒᜆᜓ)
* its

#### Derived terms

* anito

### Pronoun

nitó (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜒᜆᜓ)
* this

#### See also

| | Direct (ang) | Indirect (ng) | Oblique (sa) | Locative (nasa) | Existential | Manner (gaya ng) |
| Near speaker* | ari/are, iri/ire/idi, yari** | nari/nare, niri/nire/nidi, niyari$^†$ | dini/dine | nandini, narini, nairi/naidi, naari | ere/eri, here/heri, ayri | ganari, ganiri, garini(garni), gayari$^†$ |
| Near speaker and listener* | ito | nito | dito | nandito, narito, naito** | heto, eto, ayto$^†$ | ganito, garito(garto)** |
| Near listener | iyan, yaan | niyan | diyan/diyaan | nandiyan/nandiyaan, nariyan(naryan), nayan/nayaan**, naiyan$^‡$ | hayan, ayan | ganiyan(ganyan), gay-an**, gariyan** |
| Remote | iyon, yoon, yaon$^†$ | niyon, noon, niyaon$^†$ | doon | nandoon, naron/naroon**, nayon/nayoon**, nayaon$^‡$ | hayon/hayun, ayon/ayun | ganoon, gayon, gay-on, gayoon$^‡$,garoon$^‡$ |
| *These two series have merged in modern Tagalog. The first row is used in some dialects, the second row is used anywhere else. **These pronouns are used in some dialects. $^†$These pronouns are not commonly used in casual speech but more prevalent in literature. $^‡$Rare in text. |||||||

### Further reading

* “nito”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

### Anagrams

* tino
# Komantsi
## Hopi
### Alternative forms

* Kumantsi

### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish comanche.

### Noun

Komantsi (plural Komantsim)
* A Comanche person.
* A type of Hopi dancer who impersonates a Comanche.

#### Derived terms

* Komantsitikive
* komatsiwùukukiʼyta

### Proper noun

Komantsi
* A kachina.

### References

* Hopi Dictionary Project, The (1998) Hopi Dictionary: Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni: A Hopi Dictionary of the Third Mesa Dialect with an English-Hopi Finder List and a Sketch of Hopi Grammar, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, page 147
# hoonaw
## Hopi
### Alternative forms

* hoonawu

### Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *hula-wït, augmentative of *hula (“bear; badger”). Cf. honani (“badger”).

### Noun

hoonaw (plural hoohont)
* bear

#### Derived terms

* honawhoya
* honhokyasmi
* honmaqtö
* Honngyam
* honngàapi
* honsoki
* honsuru
* Honwungwa
* Hoonàwpa
* Hònkatsina
* hònkuku
* hònkwita
* hònpukya

### References

* Albert, Roy, Shaul, David Leedom (1985) A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 23
* Hopi Dictionary Project, The (1998) Hopi Dictionary: Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni: A Hopi Dictionary of the Third Mesa Dialect with an English-Hopi Finder List and a Sketch of Hopi Grammar, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, page 97
# αὐχμηρός
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From αὐχμ(ός) (aukhm(ós)) +‎ -ηρός (-ērós).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /au̯kʰ.mɛː.rós/ → /aɸx.miˈros/ → /afx.miˈros/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /au̯kʰ.mɛː.rós/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /aʍkʰ.me̝ˈros/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /aɸx.miˈros/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /afx.miˈros/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /afx.miˈros/

### Adjective

αὐχμηρός • (aukhmērós) m (feminine αὐχμηρᾱ́, neuter αὐχμηρόν); first/second declension
* dry, parched, without rain
* dry, rough, squalid
* miserable, wretched

#### Derived terms

* αὐχμηρόβιος (aukhmēróbios)
* αὐχμηροκόμης (aukhmērokómēs)
* αὐχμηρότης (aukhmērótēs)
* αὐχμηρώδης (aukhmērṓdēs)

### Further reading

* “αὐχμηρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* αὐχμηρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* αὐχμηρός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
# Malayo
## Tagalog
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish malayo, from Malay Melayu. Doublet of Malay.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /maˈlajo/ [mɐˈlaː.jo]
* Rhymes: -ajo
* Syllabification: Ma‧la‧yo

#### Proper noun

Malayo (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜎᜌᜓ)
* Malay (language)
    Synonym: Malay

#### Noun

Malayo (feminine Malaya, Baybayin spelling ᜋᜎᜌᜓ)
* Malay (person)
    Synonym: Malay

#### Adjective

Malayo (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜎᜌᜓ)
* Malay (pertaining to Malays)
    Synonym: Malay

##### Related terms

* Malay
* Malaya
* Malaybalay
* Malaysia

### Etymology 2

From malayo (“far”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /maˈlajoʔ/ [mɐˈlaː.joʔ]
* Rhymes: -ajoʔ
* Syllabification: Ma‧la‧yo

#### Proper noun

Malayò (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜎᜌᜓ)
* a surname from Tagalog

### Further reading

* “Malayo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
# δημαγωγός
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From δῆμος (dêmos, “people”) +‎ ᾰ̓γωγός (ăgōgós, “leading, guiding”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɛː.ma.ɡɔː.ɡós/ → /ði.ma.ɣoˈɣos/ → /ði.ma.ɣoˈɣos/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /dɛː.ma.ɡɔː.ɡós/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /de̝.ma.ɡoˈɡos/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ði.ma.ɣoˈɣos/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ði.ma.ɣoˈɣos/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ði.ma.ɣoˈɣos/

### Noun

δημᾰγωγός • (dēmăgōgós) m (genitive δημᾰγωγοῦ); second declension
* a popular leader
** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Collected Works 184D
** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 178.33
** (in a bad sense) a leader of the mob, an unprincipled, factious orator, demagogue
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.21
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 2.3.27
*** 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, Collected Works 32.37:λόγοι δημαγωγοῦ, ἔργα τυράννουlógoi dēmagōgoû, érga turánnou
*** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 5.11.12:ἔστι γὰρ ὁ δημαγωγὸς τοῦ δήμου κόλαξésti gàr ho dēmagōgòs toû dḗmou kólax

#### Synonyms

* δημηγόρος (dēmēgóros)

#### Derived terms

* δημᾰγωγῐ́ᾱ (dēmăgōgĭ́ā)
* δημᾰγωγῐκός (dēmăgōgĭkós)

### References

* “δημαγωγός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “δημαγωγός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* δημαγωγός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* δημαγωγός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. agitator idem, page 19.demagogue idem, page 209.people idem, page 604.ranter idem, page 672.

## Greek
### Etymology

From the Ancient Greek δημαγωγός (dēmagōgós).

### Noun

δημαγωγός • (dimagogós) m (plural δημαγωγοί)
* demagogue
# wommanhede
## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* wommanhed, womanhede, whommanhede, whommanhed, wommonhede, wommonhed, womonhede, womonhed, wommanhod, wommanhode, whomanhod, whomanhode, wymmenhod, wymmenhode, wommanhiede

### Etymology

From womman +‎ -hede.

### Noun

wommanhede (uncountable)
* The state of being a woman; womanhood.
* The female sex in general.
* The traits or qualities characteristic of women; femininity, womanliness.
* (by extension) In men: effeminacy.
* (with possessive determiner) A general honorific title for a woman.
** John Lydgate, Troy Book
    Ne did servise to ȝoure wommanhed.

#### Related terms

* manhede
* womman
* wommankin
* wommankynde
* wommanles
* wommanly
* wommanyssh

#### Descendants

* English: womanhood; womanhead

### References

* “wommanhed(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 April 2018.
# wommankin
## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* womman-kin, wommenkyn, wimmannkinn, wifmannkinn

### Etymology

From womman +‎ kin.

### Noun

wommankin (uncountable)
* The female sex in general; womankind.
* The side of one's extended family connected by one's mother.

#### Synonyms

* wommankynde
* wifkin

#### Related terms

* womman
* wommanhede
* wommankynde
* wommanles
* wommanly
* wommanyssh

### References

* “wǒmman-kin, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 April 2018.
# బాహువు
## Telugu
### Etymology

From Sanskrit बाहु (bāhu, “arm”) +‎ -వు (-vu).

### Noun

బాహువు • (bāhuvu) ? (plural బాహువులు)
* (anatomy) arm

#### Derived terms

* ఆజానుబాహుడు (ājānubāhuḍu)
* బాహుజుడు (bāhujuḍu)
* బాహుదండము (bāhudaṇḍamu)
* బాహుదము (bāhudamu)
* బాహుపురి (bāhupuri)
* బాహుమూలము (bāhumūlamu)
* బాహుయుద్ధము (bāhuyuddhamu)
* బాహుశాలి (bāhuśāli)

### References

* "బాహువు" in Charles Philip Brown (1903) A Telugu-English dictionary, Madras: Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 881
# wommanles
## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* See womman and -les for alternative forms and spellings.

### Etymology

From womman +‎ -les.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈwumanlɛːs/, /ˈwumanlɛs/

### Adjective

wommanles
* Being without women; womanless.
* Being without a woman who would provide a service, e.g. a maidservant or midwife.

#### Related terms

* man
* womman
* wommanhede
* wommankin
* wommankynde
* wommanly
* wommanyssh

#### Descendants

* English: womanless, womenless

### References

* “wǒmmanlē̆s, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 April 2018.
# svedberg
## English
### Alternative forms

* Svedberg

### Etymology

From Swedish Svedberg. Named after the Swedish chemist Theodor Svedberg (1884–1971).

### Noun

svedberg (plural svedbergs)
* A non-SI unit of sedimentation rate (symbol S or Sv), the rate at which particles of a given size and shape travel to the bottom of a tube under centrifugal force.

#### Synonyms

* S
* Sv
* Svedberg unit

#### Derived terms

* S
* Sv
# ensky
## English
### Etymology

From en- +‎ sky.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛnˈskaɪ/

### Verb

ensky (third-person singular simple present enskies, present participle enskying, simple past and past participle enskied or enskyed)
* (poetic, transitive) To place in the sky.
** Late XIX cent, Francis Thompson, Grace of the Way
    I failed against the affluent tide;
    Out of this abject earth of me
    I was translated and enskied
    Into the heavenly-regioned She.
* (poetic, transitive) To exalt.
# dzitni
## Teposcolula Mixtec
### Etymology

From Proto-Mixtec *sitįʔ.

### Noun

dzitni
* nose
    Synonym: (reverential) dutuya

#### Derived terms

* dacadzitni
* dzitni ticoo
* dzitni tnama
* dzitnicuiñe
* dzitnindudziya
* dzitnituu
* yavuidzitni

### References

* Alvarado, Francisco de (1593) Vocabulario en lengua misteca (in Spanish), Mexico: En casa de Pedro Balli, page 154v
* Reyes, Antonio de los (1593) Arte en lengua mixteca (in Spanish), Alençon: Typographie E. Renaut-De Broise, published 1889, page 84
# κρίβανος
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* κλῑ́βανος (klī́banos), κρῑ́βανον (krī́banon)

### Etymology

A technical loan of unknown origin. Walde suggested a connection with Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz (“loaf”), while Lewy proposed a Semitic origin; both proposals are unconvincing. Furnée lists the words among examples of the interchange of "ρ" and "λ" in Pre-Greek words, which is more probable.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /krǐː.ba.nos/ → /ˈkri.βa.nos/ → /ˈkri.va.nos/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /krǐː.ba.nos/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈkri.ba.nos/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈkri.βa.nos/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈkri.va.nos/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈkri.va.nos/

### Noun

κρῑ́βᾰνος • (krī́bănos) m (genitive κρῑβᾰ́νου); second declension
* covered earthen vessel, wherein bread was baked by putting hot embers round it
* funnel-shaped vessel, used for drawing water
* underground channel or vaulted passage, in irrigation works
* hollow, cavern in a rock

#### Derived terms

* κριβανάριος (kribanários)
* κριβανεῖον (kribaneîon)
* κριβανεύς (kribaneús)
* κριβάνη (kribánē)
* κριβανίκιος (kribaníkios)
* κριβάνιον (kribánion)
* κριβάνιος (kribánios)
* κριβανίτης (kribanítēs)
* κριβανοειδής (kribanoeidḗs)
* κριβανωτός (kribanōtós)

#### Descendants

* → Latin: clibanus

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κρῑ́βανος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 715-6

### Further reading

* “κρίβανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “κρίβανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* κρίβανος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* “κρίβανος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
# Palazzolu
## Sicilian
### Alternative forms

* Palizzolu, Palazzuolu
* Palazzolu Acrèiti, Palazzolu 'Crèiti, Palazzolu Acrèidi (hellenized toponym)

### Etymology

From Late Latin Palatiolum, from palatium (“a palace; large residence”) +‎ -olum (diminutive suffix). By surface analysis, palazzu +‎ -olu. Possibly related and/or inherited from a gallo-norman stratum. Cognate with Italian Palazzolo.

### Proper noun

Palazzolu m
* A town in Syracuse, Sicily, Italy: Palazzolo Acreide.
* (toponym) Several places in Italy. The major are: Palazzolo sull'Oglio, Palazzolo dello Stella, Palazzolo Vercellese.
* a habitational surname
    Synonym: Palazzuolu

#### Derived terms

* palazzulata
* palazzulisa
* palazzulisi

#### Related terms

* a Ferra
* Buscema
* Janiattini
* Notu
* Palagunìa
* Saragusa
* u Càssaru
* vaḍḍu di Notu

#### See also

* spàraciu
* trunzu
# kuasa
## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Malay kuasa, ke- +‎ *wasa, from Javanese ꦏꦸꦮꦱ (kuwasa), ꦏꦮꦱ (kawasa), from Old Javanese kawaśa, from Sanskrit वश (vaśa, “authority, power, control, dominion”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [kuˈasa]
* Rhymes: -sa, -a
* Hyphenation: ku‧a‧sa

### Noun

kuasa (plural kuasa-kuasa)
* power:
** the ability to do or undergo something.
    Synonym: tenaga
** the ability to coerce, influence or control.
** (statistics) the probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.
* authority
    Synonym: otoritas
* (physics) force (anything that has the power to produce a physical effect)
    Synonym: daya (Standard Malay)

#### Derived terms

* berkuasa
* kekuasaan
* menguasai
* menguasakan
* penguasa
* penguasaan
* perkosa
* perkosaan
* sekuasa-kuasanya
* sekuasanya
* terkuasai

#### Related terms

* kawasan

### Further reading

* “kuasa” 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.

## Malay
### Etymology

From Javanese ꦏꦸꦮꦱ (kuwasa), ꦏꦮꦱ (kawasa), from Sanskrit वश (vaśa, “authority, power, control, dominion”). Reconstructed as ke- +‎ *wasa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kuasa/
* Rhymes: -asa, -sa
* Audio (Malaysia):(file)
* Rhymes: -a

### Noun

kuasa (Jawi spelling کواس, plural kuasa-kuasa, informal 1st possessive kuasaku, 2nd possessive kuasamu, 3rd possessive kuasanya)
* power
    Synonym: tenaga
** (mathematics) product of equal factors.
    Synonym: pangkat (Indonesia)
** (physics) rate of doing work or transferring energy.
    Synonym: daya (Indonesia)
* strength
    Synonym: kekuatan
* authority
    Synonym: autoriti

#### Derived terms

Regular affixed derivations:
* kekuasaan [abstract / locative] (ke-an)
* penguasa [agentive / qualitative / instrumental / abstract / measure] (peN-)
* berkuasa [stative / habitual] (beR-)
* menguasai [agent focus + causative (locative) benefactive] (meN- + -i)
* menguasakan [agent focus + causative benefactive] (meN- + -kan)
* kuasaan [timespan / emotion] (-an)

#### Related terms

* kawasan
* kusa / kosa

#### Descendants

* Indonesian: kuasa
* → Min Nan: 掛卅／挂卅 (kòa-sa̍p), 掛些／挂些 (kòa-se), 掛沙／挂沙 (kòa-sa)
* → Tausug: kawasa

### References

* Kosakata Bahasa Sanskerta dalam Bahasa Melayu Masa Kini, Jakarta, Indonesia: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa. Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 1994, →ISBN, pages 100-1
* Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “کواس koewasa”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, pages 91-2
* Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “کواس kuwasa”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 542
* Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “kuasa”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 616

### Further reading

* “kuasa” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
# mamamatay-tao
## Tagalog
### Etymology

From mam- +‎ patay (“kill”) +‎ tao (“person”) with initial reduplication.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /mamaˌmataj ˈtaʔo/ [mɐ.mɐˌmaː.t̪aɪ̯ ˈt̪aː.ʔo]
* Rhymes: -aʔo
* Syllabification: ma‧ma‧ma‧tay-ta‧o

### Noun

mamamatay-tao (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜋᜋᜆᜌ᜔ᜆᜂ)
* murderer; killer; manslayer

#### Related terms

* mamamatay-sunog

### Further reading

* “mamamatay-tao”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
# tnii
## Teposcolula Mixtec
### Alternative forms

* tnij

### Etymology

From Proto-Mixtec *tiyįʔ.

### Noun

tnii
* nail (fingernail or toenail)
    Synonym: (reverential) teyusiya

#### Derived terms

* tniiidzu

### References

* Alvarado, Francisco de (1593) Vocabulario en lengua misteca (in Spanish), Mexico: En casa de Pedro Balli, page 199v: “Vña.tnij.”
* Reyes, Antonio de los (1593) Arte en lengua mixteca (in Spanish), Alençon: Typographie E. Renaut-De Broise, published 1889, page 86