# nusa
## Balinese
### Romanization

nusa
* Romanization of ᬦᬸᬲ

## Chiquihuitlán Mazatec
### Noun

nusa
* sweet potato

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Inherited from Malay nusa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nusa.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈnusa/ [ˈnu.sa]
* Rhymes: -usa
* Syllabification: nu‧sa

### Noun

nusa
* (rare, poetic) Synonym of pulau (“island”)

#### Related terms

* Nusantara

### References

* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*nusa”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

## Japanese
### Romanization

nusa
* Rōmaji transcription of ぬさ

## Javanese
### Romanization

nusa
* Romanization of ꦤꦸꦱ (“island”)

## Malay
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *nusa, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *nusa, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *nusa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nusa.

### Pronunciation

* (Riau-Lingga) IPA: /ˈnusa/ [ˈnu.sa]
* (Johor-Selangor) IPA: /ˈnusə/ [ˈnu.sə]
* Rhymes: -usə, -sə, -ə
* Hyphenation: nu‧sa

### Noun

nusa (Jawi spelling نوسا, plural nusa-nusa, informal 1st possessive nusaku, 2nd possessive nusamu, 3rd possessive nusanya)
* island (area of land completely surrounded by water)

#### Synonyms

* pulau / ڤولاو

### Further reading

* “nusa” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Nupe
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nũ̄.sā/

### Noun

nusa (plural nusazhì)
* elder
    Synonym: jìgbán
    Antonym: egi
* old age

#### Derived terms

* jin nusa (“to be old”)

## Sangir
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *nusa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nusa.

### Noun

nusa
* island (area of land completely surrounded by water)

## Sundanese
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nusa.

### Noun

nusa
* island (area of land completely surrounded by water)

### Further reading

* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*nusa₁”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

-nusa (infinitive kunusa)
* to sniff

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -nusa :
| Positive present | -nanusa |
| Subjunctive | -nuse |
| Negative | -nusi |
| Imperative singular | nusa |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kunusa |
| Negative | kutonusa |
Imperatives :
| Singular | nusa |
| Plural | nuseni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hunusa |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -linusa |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kunusa |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tanusa |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tanusa |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sinuse |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngenusa |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singenusa |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalinusa |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalinusa |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -menusa |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshanusa |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -janusa |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kinusa |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -siponusa |
| Consecutive | kanusa / positive subject concord + -kanusa |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kanuse |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :