# pesa
## Ajië
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [pesa]

### Noun

pesa
* stone

### References

* Leenhardt, M. (1935) Vocabulaire et grammaire de la langue Houaïlou, Paris: Institut d'ethnologie. Cited in: "Houaïlou" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
* Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "Ajiø" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈpɛ.zə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈpə.zə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈpe.za]
* Rhymes: -ɛza

### Verb

pesa
* inflection of pesar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpɛsa]
* Rhymes: -ɛsa
* Hyphenation: pe‧sa

### Noun

pesa
* inflection of peso:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative plural

#### Alternative forms

* (plural forms): pesos

### Anagrams

* pase

## Estonian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *pesä, from Proto-Uralic *pesä. Cognate with Finnish pesä and Hungarian fészek.

### Noun

pesa (genitive pesa, partitive pesa)
* nest

#### Declension
## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

pesa
* third-person singular past historic of peser

### Anagrams

* sape

## Galician
### Verb

pesa
* inflection of pesar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpe.za/, (traditional) /ˈpe.sa/
* Rhymes: -eza, (traditional) -esa
* Hyphenation: pé‧sa

### Etymology 1

Deverbal from pesare +‎ -a.

#### Noun

pesa f (plural pese)
* weighing
* weighbridge
* weighing machine

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

pesa f sg
* feminine singular of peso

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

pesa
* inflection of pesare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

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

### Anagrams

* aspe, sape

## Kituba
### Verb

pesa
* to give

## Lingala
### Verb

pesa
* to give

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɛ.zɐ/

### Verb

pesa
* inflection of pesar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* paisa (Rumantsch Grischun)
* peisa (Sursilvan, Surmiran)

### Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *pēsum (with a later change of gender), from Latin pēnsum.

### Noun

pesa f
* (Sutsilvan) weight

#### Synonyms

* (Puter, Vallader) pais

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpesa/ [ˈpe.sa]
* Rhymes: -esa
* Syllabification: pe‧sa

### Etymology 1

From peso.

#### Noun

pesa f (plural pesas)
* weight (object cf. peso)
* (exercise) dumbbell
* (Latin America) balance, scales
    Synonym: báscula

##### Hyponyms

* romana
* balanza

##### Derived terms

* barra con pesas
* pesa rusa

##### Related terms

* pesar
* pesas
* peso

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

pesa
* inflection of pesar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “pesa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swahili
### Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi पैसा (paisā) / Urdu پَیسَہ (paisa).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɛ.sa/
* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

pesa class V or IX (plural mapesa class VI or pesa class X)
* money
    Synonyms: fedha, (Tanzania) hela
* (history) paisa (unit of Indian currency)

## Tagalog
### Etymology 1

Clipping of Hokkien 白煠魚 / 白煠鱼 (pe̍h-sa̍h hî, literally “blanched / boiled fish”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈpesaʔ/ [ˈpɛː.sɐʔ]
* Rhymes: -esaʔ
* Syllabification: pe‧sa

#### Noun

pesà (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐ)
* fish boiled in rice with ginger and vegetables

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish pesa.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈpesa/ [ˈpɛː.sɐ]
* Rhymes: -esa
* Syllabification: pe‧sa

#### Noun

pesa (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜐ)
* weight used on scales

##### Related terms

* piso

### Further reading

* “pesa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980) “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics, volume B, number 71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 139
* Manuel, E. Arsenio (1948) Chinese elements in the Tagalog language: with some indication of Chinese influence on other Philippine languages and cultures and an excursion into Austronesian linguistics, Manila: Filipiniana Publications, page 44