# dusa
## Bikol Central
### Etymology

Borrowed from Malay dosa (“sin”), from Sanskrit दोष (doṣa, “deficiency, damage, harm”), through semantic change.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdusa/ [ˈd̪u.sa]
* Hyphenation: du‧sa

### Noun

dúsa (Basahan spelling ᜇᜓᜐ)
* lament
    Synonyms: sambitan, panambitan
* suffering, grief
    Synonyms: tios, penitensiya

#### Derived terms

* magdusa
* padusa

## Latvian
### Etymology

From the same stem as dusēt, made into a feminine fourth declension noun (ending -a).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [dusa]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

dusa f (4th declension)
* (poetic) sleep (the act of sleeping)
    saldu dusu! ― sleep well! (lit. sweet sleep)
    ar gaiļa dziesmu piecēlos no dusas ― with the cock's song (= at cockcrow) I woke up from sleep
    jutos gurdens un gāju taisni klētiņā uz dusu ― I felt weary and went directly to the little barn to sleep
* (poetic) rest, piece
    mūsu paaudze dusas nezināja ― our generation knew no rest
    lieli tauriņi, kā dusas meklēdami, laižas pa stiebriem un grīšļiem ― large butterflies, as if looking for rest, fly through grass stalks and sedge leaves
* (poetic, figuratively) death
    mūža dusa ― eternal sleep (= death)
    no beigu dusas nevar modināt! ― (one) cannot wake up (someone) from the final sleep (= death)

#### Synonyms

* miegs

#### Related terms

* aizdusa
* dusēt

### References

* ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “dusēt”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎ (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀤𑀼𑀲 (Brahmi script)
* दुस (Devanagari script)
* দুস (Bengali script)
* දුස (Sinhalese script)
* ဒုသ or ၻုသ (Burmese script)
* ทุส or ทุสะ (Thai script)
* ᨴᩩᩈ (Tai Tham script)
* ທຸສ or ທຸສະ (Lao script)
* ទុស (Khmer script)
* 𑄘𑄪𑄥 (Chakma script)

### Etymology

Extracted from the prefix dus- and verbs such as dussati and dūseti.

### Noun

dusa ?
* The Pali root dus
** c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎ (overall work in Pali), page 291; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:गुहदुसानं दीघं ॥५॥ गुह, दुस, इच्चेतेसं धातूनं सरो दीघं आपज्जते कारिते । गूहयति ; दूसयति ॥5. Guhadusānaṃ dīghaṃ Guha, dusa, iccetesaṃ dhātūnaṃ saro dīghaṃ āpajjate kārite. gūhayati; dūsayati.5. Length from guha and dusa Guha, dusa: For these roots, the vowel exhibits length in the causative. .Exx: gūhayati; dūsayati.

#### Usage notes

Plural forms have only been observed in dvandas.

#### Declension
## Tagalog
### Alternative forms

* rusa — dialectal, Rizal, informal

### Etymology

Borrowed from Malay dosa (“sin”), from Sanskrit दोष (doṣa, “deficiency, damage, harm”) with semantic shift.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈdusa/ [ˈd̪uː.sɐ]
* Rhymes: -usa
* Syllabification: du‧sa

### Noun

dusa (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜐ)
* suffering; affliction
    Synonyms: hirap, sakit, pagtitiis
* grief; sorrow
    Synonyms: dalamhati, pighati, lungkot
* penance; penitence
    Synonyms: pagpapakasakit, penitensiya
* punishment
    Synonym: parusa

#### Derived terms

* kaparusahan
* magdusa
* magparusa
* maparusahan
* pagdurusa
* pagdusahan
* pagpaparusa
* papagdusahin
* parusa
* parusahan

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* usad

## Tausug
### Etymology

From Malay dosa, from Sanskrit दोष (doṣa).

### Pronunciation

* (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA: /dusa/ [d̪ʊˈsa]
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: du‧sa

### Noun

dusa (Sulat Sūg spelling دُسَ)
* sin
* crime
* guilt, fault

#### Derived terms

* baldusa (“sinner”)