# tusa
## Ambonese Malay
### Etymology

Unknown.

### Noun

tusa
* cat
    Synonym: pus
    Tutu pintu jang sampe tusa masu.The door is closed so that the cat does not enter.

### References

* D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia‎, Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

## Baltic Romani
### Pronoun

tusa
* (Litovska) instrumental of tu

#### Declension

* ↑ The ablative is in decline in Lithuanian Romani

## Galician
### Verb

tusa
* inflection of tusir:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Hausa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /túː.sàː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [túː.sàː]

### Noun

tūsā̀ f (possessed form tūsàr̃)
* fart

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtuʃɒ]
* Hyphenation: tu‧sa
* Rhymes: -ʃɒ

### Etymology 1

Back-formation from tusakodik (“to struggle, fight”). Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.

#### Noun

tusa (plural tusák)
* struggle, fight, combat

##### Derived terms

* tusázik
* haláltusa
* lovastusa
* öttusa

### Etymology 2

tus (“Indian ink”) +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

#### Noun

tusa
* third-person singular single-possession possessive of tus

##### Declension
### References

* ↑ tusa in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

### Further reading

* (struggle, combat): tusa in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* ([folksy] butt of a rifle, cf. tus): tusa in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Irish
### Etymology

From Old Irish tussu. By surface analysis, tú +‎ -sa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt̪ˠʊsˠə/

### Pronoun

tusa (conjunctive)
* emphatic form of tú
    you (singular), thou

#### Usage notes

* Also used as the vocative: Haigh tusa! — "Hey you!"

#### Related terms

* thusa

#### See also

| Number | Person (and gender) | Conjunctive (emphatic) | Disjunctive (emphatic) | Possessive determiner |
| Singular | First | mé (mise) | mé (mise) | mo $^L$ m' before vowel sounds |
| Singular | Second | tú (tusa)$^1$ | thú (thusa) | do $^L$ d' before vowel sounds |
| Singular | Third masculine | sé (seisean) | é (eisean) | a $^L$ |
| Singular | Third feminine | sí (sise) | í (ise) | a $^H$ |
| Singular | Third neuter | — | ea | — |
| Plural | First | muid, sinn (muidne, muide), (sinne) | muid, sinn (muidne, muide), (sinne) | ár $^E$ |
| Plural | Second | sibh (sibhse)$^1$ | sibh (sibhse)$^1$ | bhur $^E$ |
| Plural | Third | siad (siadsan) | iad (iadsan) | a $^E$ |
$^L$ Triggers lenition $^E$ Triggers eclipsis $^H$ Triggers h-prothesis
$^1$ Also used as the vocative

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tusa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “tusa”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “tusa”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tú”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Manado Malay
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ternate tusa

### Noun

tusa
* cat (Felis catus)

## Portuguese
### Noun

tusa f (plural tusas)
* (vulgar slang) wood; erection
    Synonym: tesão

## Sakizaya
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tu.ˈsa/, [tu.ˈsa]

### Numeral

tusa
* two

## Scottish Gaelic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt̪us̪ə/
* (Barra) IPA: [ˈt̪us̪ʌ]

### Pronoun

tusa
* (emphatic) Form of thusa (“thou, you”) used after verb forms ending in -n, -s or -dh.

#### See also

$^1$ Used when following a verb ending in -n, -s or -dh. $^2$ sibh and sibhse also act as the polite singular pronouns. To mark a direct object of a verbal noun, the derivatives of gam are used.

### References

* ↑ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
* ↑ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
* ↑ Mac Gill-Fhinnein, Gordon (1966) Gàidhlig Uidhist a Deas, Dublin: Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath
* ↑ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tú”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtusa/ [ˈt̪u.sa]
* Rhymes: -usa
* Syllabification: tu‧sa

### Etymology 1

From tuso (“docked, cropped”).

#### Noun

tusa f (plural tusas)
* (Latin America) stripped corncob
* (Latin America) cigar rolled in a corn husk
* (Chile) cornsilk
* (Chile) mane (of a horse)
* (Colombia) pockmark
* (Colombia) spite, resentment
* (Central America, Cuba) trollop, bitch (woman)

#### Adjective

tusa
* feminine singular of tuso

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

tusa f (plural tusas)
* female equivalent of tuso (“dog”)

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

tusa
* inflection of tusar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “tusa”, 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

## Ternate
### Etymology

Cognate with Ambonese Malay tusa (“cat”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtu.sa/

### Noun

tusa
* cat
    tusa malako ― cat's eye

### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

## West Makian
### Etymology

Cognate with (if not from) Ternate tusa (“cat”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt̪u.s̪a/

### Noun

tusa
* cat

### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics