# sasa
## Cebuano
### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: sa‧sa

### Noun

sasa
* the barred garfish (Hemiramphus far)

## Hungarian
### Etymology

sas +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈʃɒʃɒ]
* Hyphenation: sa‧sa

### Noun

sasa
* third-person singular single-possession possessive of sas

#### Declension
## Japanese
### Romanization

sasa
* Rōmaji transcription of ささ

## Malagasy
### Verb

sasa
* to wash

#### Related terms
## North Moluccan Malay
### Etymology

From Malay sesak.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /saˈsa/
* Hyphenation: sa‧sa

### Adjective

sasa
* tight
    Kita pe calana lama so sasa.My old pants are already tight.

## Northern Valley Yokuts
### Etymology

From Proto-Yokuts *sasa- ("eye").

### Noun

sasa
* (Dumna) eye

### References

* Studies in American Indian Languages (Jesse O. Sawyer (editor), 1971) and Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology (2007), both citing Kroeber
* Catherine Callaghan, Proto Utian Grammar and Dictionary: With Notes on Yokuts

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀲𑀲 (Brahmi script)
* सस (Devanagari script)
* সস (Bengali script)
* සස (Sinhalese script)
* သသ (Burmese script)
* สส (Thai script)
* ᩈᩈ (Tai Tham script)
* ສສ or ສະສະ (Lao script)
* សស (Khmer script)
* 𑄥𑄥 (Chakma script)

### Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit शश (śaśa).

### Noun

sasa m
* hare

#### Declension
### References

Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875, page 465.

## Quechua
### Adjective

sasa
* difficult, hard to understand

## Southern Valley Yokuts
### Etymology

From Proto-Yokuts *sasa- ("eye").

### Noun

sasa
* (Yawelmani) eye

### References

* Studies in American Indian Languages (Jesse O. Sawyer (editor), 1971) and Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology (2007), both citing Kroeber
* Catherine Callaghan, Proto Utian Grammar and Dictionary: With Notes on Yokuts

## Swahili
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic [Term?].

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Adverb

sasa
* now

#### Derived terms

* kisasa (“modern, current”)
* sasa hivi (“right now”)

### Interjection

sasa (plural saseni)
* (Sheng) hello, what's up
    Synonyms: vipi, niaje

## Tagalog
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sasah (“cut or collect palm leaves for roofing”). Compare Cebuano salasa.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /saˈsa/ [sɐˈsa]
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: sa‧sa

#### Noun

sasá (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜐ)
* nipa; nipa palm (Nypa fruticans)
    Synonyms: pawid, nipa

##### Derived terms

* manasa

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog)
** IPA: /saˈsaʔ/ [sɐˈsaʔ] (adjective)
*** Rhymes: -aʔ
** IPA: /ˈsasaʔ/ [ˈsaː.sɐʔ] (noun)
*** Rhymes: -asaʔ
* Syllabification: sa‧sa

#### Adjective

sasâ (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜐ)
* enjoying great abundance
    Synonyms: sagana, masagana
* satiated; supplied with too much
    Synonym: sawa

#### Noun

sasà (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜐ)
* abundance (of supplies, etc.)
    Synonyms: kasaganaan, pagkasagana
* feeling of having had too much of something
    Synonyms: sawa, pagsasawa

##### Derived terms

* kasasaan
* magpasasa
* masasaan
* pagpapasasa
* pasasa
* pasasaan

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /saˈsaʔ/ [sɐˈsaʔ]
* Rhymes: -aʔ
* Syllabification: sa‧sa

#### Noun

sasâ (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜐ)
* intensity; gravity; brunt
    Synonyms: sasal, tindi, sidhi, grabedad, pagkagrabe

##### Derived terms

* masasaan

### Etymology 4
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog)
** IPA: /ˈsasa/ [ˈsaː.sɐ]
*** Rhymes: -asa
** IPA: /ˈsasaʔ/ [ˈsaː.sɐʔ] (obsolete)
* Syllabification: sa‧sa

#### Noun

sasa (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜐ)
* cleaving in the middle
* cleave someone with a knife downwards [16th–17th c.]

##### Derived terms

* sasahin
* sumasa

### Etymology 5
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /saˈsaʔ/ [sɐˈsaʔ]
* Rhymes: -aʔ
* Syllabification: sa‧sa

#### Noun

sasâ (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜐ)
* (obsolete) name of the Baybayin letter ᜐ, corresponding to "sa"

#### See also

* sa

### Further reading

* “sasa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
* San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎, La Noble Villa de Pila
** page 349: “Hender) Saſa (pp) de vna cuchillada a alguno de alto abajo”
** page 444: “Nipa) Saſa (pc) con q̃ cubren las caſas, ſacã vino della”
** page 461: “Palma) Saſa (pc) baja como mata, hecha vn tallo que cultiuado almodo de las palmas de cocos da vn licor de que ſe haçe mejor [y mas] ſano vino que de las de cocos.”
** page 538: “S) Saſa (pc) deſta lengua Tagala.|. ſaſa yaon .|. ᜐ . ygava mo aco dito nang iſang ſaſa, haz me aqui vna letra .S. di ſaſa, ang ypinaſulat co [ſa iyo]? note mande eſcriuir vna .S?”

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsa.sa]

### Verb

sasa
* (intransitive) to creep, crawl

#### Conjugation
### References

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