tsa

Ultimately borrowed from Cantonese 茶 (caa⁴), possibly via Portuguese chá and next via Philippine Spanish cha.[1][2]

tsa

1. tea

tsa

1. stone

• 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

tsa

1. Rōmaji transcription of つぁ
2. Rōmaji transcription of ツァ

From Chinese 茶 (chá).

tsa

1. tea

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

Ultimately from Chinese, either through:

• Cantonese 茶 (caa⁴), possibly via Macau Portuguese chá and next via Philippine Spanish cha as recorded in Abella (1874).
• Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 茶 (chʻa²) according to Manuel (1948)

The sense "gossip" is a semantic loan from English tea (“information; gossip”) as in spill the tea.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃa/ [ˈt͡ʃa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: tsa

tsa (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐ)

1. tea (plant, leaves, and drink)
2. (slang) tea (information, especially gossip)

   Anong tsa, mare?

   What's the tea, girl?

• “tsa” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino‎, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
• “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.
• Venancio M. de Abella (1874) Vade-Mecum Filipino ó manual de la conversacion familiar Español-Tagalog‎, 12.ᵃ edition (overall work in Spanish and Tagalog), Escolta, Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier, page 115
• “cha”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• tassa

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

tsa f (Tifinagh spelling ⵜⵙⴰ, plural tisawin)

1. liver
2. (figuratively) love, tenderness