# tsa
## Babine-Witsuwit'en
### Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *tshaʼ (“beaver”). Cognate with Hän tsà’, Sarcee tsxa, Navajo chaaʼ, Chipewyan tsáá, Beaver chááʼ, Carrier tsaa, Ahtna tsaʼ.

### Noun

tsa
* beaver

### References

* Sharon Hargus, Keren Rice (2005) Athabaskan Prosody, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 12

## Cebuano
### Etymology

Ultimately borrowed from Cantonese 茶 (caa$^4$), possibly via Portuguese chá and next via Philippine Spanish cha.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtsa/ [ˈt̪s̪a]
* Hyphenation: tsa

### Noun

tsá (Badlit spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐ)
* tea

### References

* ↑ Abella, Venancio María de (1874) Vade-Mecum Filipino ó manual de la conversacion familiar Español-Tagalog. Seguido de un curioso Vocabulario de Modismos Manileños.‎, 12.ᵃ edition (overall work in Spanish and Tagalog), Escolta, Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier, á cargo de C. Miralles., page 115
* ↑ “cha”, 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

## Highland Popoluca
### Noun

tsa
* stone

### References

* Elson, Benjamin F., Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)‎ (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 110

## Japanese
### Romanization

tsa
* The katakana syllable ツァ (tsa) in Hepburn-like romanization.

## Sambali
### Etymology

From Chinese 茶 (chá).

### Noun

tsa
* tea

## Tagalog
### Alternative forms

* sa — obsolete
* cha
* saa, tsaa, chaa

### Etymology

Ultimately from Chinese, either through:
* Cantonese 茶 (caa$^4$), possibly via Macau Portuguese chá and next via Philippine Spanish cha as recorded in Abella (1874).
* Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 茶 (chʻa$^2$) according to Manuel (1948)
The sense "gossip" is a semantic loan from English tea (“information; gossip”) as in spill the tea.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃa/ [ˈt͡ʃa]
** IPA: (no yod coalescence) /ˈtsa/ [ˈt͡sa]
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: tsa

### Noun

tsa (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐ)
* tea (plant, leaves, and drink)
* (slang) tea (information, especially gossip)
    Anong tsa, mare?What's the tea, girl?

#### Derived terms

* eladong tsa
* magtsa
* pagtsatsa
* tsaang-gubat
* tsaang-parang
* tsarera

#### Related terms

* tekwan

### Further reading

* “tsa”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
* “tsa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* 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 65
* Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 1307.
* Abella, Venancio María de (1874) Vade-Mecum Filipino ó manual de la conversacion familiar Español-Tagalog. Seguido de un curioso Vocabulario de Modismos Manileños.‎, 12.ᵃ edition (overall work in Spanish and Tagalog), Escolta, Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier, á cargo de C. Miralles., page 115
* “cha”, 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

### Anagrams

* Sta., tas

## Tarifit
### Alternative forms

* tassa

### Etymology

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### Noun

tsa f (Tifinagh spelling ⵜⵙⴰ, plural tisawin)
* liver
* (figuratively) love, tenderness