gasa

See also: gåsa, gaša, and gasà

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَزّ (qazz, “silk, silkware”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡa.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɡa.za]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

gasa f (plural gases)

1. gauze

Further reading

• “gasa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Dupaningan Agta

Noun

gasa

1. lung

Esperanto

Etymology

From gaso +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɡasa/
• Rhymes: -asa
• Hyphenation: ga‧sa

Adjective

gasa

1. gaseous; related to gas

Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡàː.sáː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ɡàː.sáː]

Noun

gā̀sā f (possessed form gā̀sar̃)

1. competition, contest

References

• Newman, Paul (2007), A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 71.

Icelandic

Noun

gasa n

1. indefinite genitive plural of gas

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈɡasˠiː/^[1] (as if spelled gasaí)

Noun

gasa

1. plural of gas

Mutation

Mutated forms of gasa

radical	lenition	eclipsis
gasa	ghasa	ngasa

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Italian

Verb

gasa

1. inflection of gasare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• saga

Kashubian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Gasse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.sa/
• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: ga‧sa

Noun

gasa f

1. (dated) street

   Synonym: sztrasa

Further reading

• Stefan Ramułt (1993) [1893], “gasa”, in Jerzy Trepczyk, editor, Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), 3 edition
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “ulica”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎
• “gasa”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Latin

Noun

gasa

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of gasum
2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of gas

See also: reza, rezá, řezá, rēzā, and Reza

Slovene

Etymology

Borrowed from German Gasse, from Middle High German gazze, from Old High German gazza, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡáːsa/

Noun

gȃsa f

1. (dated) street

   Synonym: úlica

Declension

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Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	gása
gen. sing.	gáse
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	gása	gási	gáse
genitive (rodȋlnik)	gáse	gás	gás
dative (dajȃlnik)	gási	gásama	gásam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	gáso	gási	gáse
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	gási	gásah	gásah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	gáso	gásama	gásami

Further reading

• “gasa”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

Spanish

Etymology

From Classical Arabic قَزّ (qazz, “silk, silkware”); see there for more. Doublet of quej and ques (“a sort of wool”), a direct borrowing from it.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡasa/ [ˈɡa.sa]
• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: ga‧sa
• Homophones: (Latin America) gaza, Gaza

Noun

gasa f (plural gasas)

1. gauze
2. chiffon

Further reading

• “gasa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Swedish

Etymology

gas +‎ -a

Verb

gasa (present gasar, preterite gasade, supine gasat, imperative gasa)

1. to accelerate, to hit the gas (increase the speed of a car)
2. gas (subject to poison gas)

Usage notes

In the vehicular sense typically with the preposition på. In the extermination sense typically with the prepositions bort or ihjäl.

Conjugation

Conjugation of gasa (weak)

	active		passive
infinitive	gasa		gasas
supine	gasat		gasats
imperative	gasa		—
imper. plural1	gasen		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	gasar	gasade	gasas	gasades
ind. plural1	gasa	gasade	gasas	gasades
subjunctive2	gase	gasade	gases	gasades
present participle		gasande
past participle		gasad

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Derived terms

• gasning

See also

• börna (“burn rubber”)

References

• gasa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• gasa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• gasa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)