vassa

From Arabic وَصَّى (waṣṣā).

vassa II (present pivassi) (transitive)

1. to advise, to inform

• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 464

From Old French vassal, from Early Medieval Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish uassos (“young man, squire”).

vassa m (plural vassaux)

1. (Jersey) vassal

• vasse (e-infinitive)

From Old Norse *vaðsa, from vaða. Compare Faroese vassa.

• IPA^(key): /²vasːa/

vassa (present tense vassar, past tense vassa, past participle vassa, passive infinitive vassast, present participle vassande, imperative vassa/vass)

1. to wade

   Synonym: vada

• “vassa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Inherited from Sanskrit वर्ष (varṣa).

vassa m or n

1. rain
2. year

When the gender is neuter, the nominative, vocative and accusative are declined somewhat differently:

Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “vassa”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

vassa

1. inflection of vass:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

• savas

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Cognate with Finnish vastaan and Ingrian vastaa.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈvɑsːɑː/, [ˈvɑsːɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑsːɑː
• Hyphenation: vas‧sa

vassa (genitive + ~)

1. across (from)
2. against

vassa (~ + genitive)

1. across (from)
2. against

vassa

1. at one (e.g. of a person that one comes across when moving)

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “vassaa”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn