Etymology

Borrowed from JapaneseCategory:English terms borrowed from Japanese#KISSACategory:English terms derived from Japanese#KISSA 喫茶 (kissa, “tea house”).

Noun

kissa (plural kissa)Category:English lemmas#KISSACategory:English nouns#KISSACategory:English countable nouns#KISSACategory:English nouns with irregular plurals#KISSACategory:English indeclinable nouns#KISSACategory:English entries with incorrect language header#KISSACategory:Pages with entries#KISSACategory:Pages with 10 entries#KISSA

1. Synonym of kissaten, a type of Japanese café.

   jazz kissaCategory:English terms with collocations#KISSA

   • 2023 October 5, Philip Arneill, “One kissa is all it takes: Tokyo’s finest jazz haunts – in pictures”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Jazz kissa are niche Japanese cafes stacked with whisky, vinyl and high-end audio systems.

     Category:English terms with quotations#KISSA

Etymology

Borrowed from SwedishCategory:Finnish terms borrowed from Swedish#KISSACategory:Finnish terms derived from Swedish#KISSA kisse, kissa (“cat”), with other dialectal forms including kise, kiss.^[1] Probably ultimately from a cat call "kis-kis-kis" used throughout Europe (see kis; also compare Russian ки́са (kísa)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkisːɑ/, [ˈk̟is̠ːɑ̝]Category:Finnish 2-syllable words#KISSACategory:Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation#KISSA
• Rhymes: -isːɑCategory:Rhymes:Finnish/isːɑ#KISSACategory:Rhymes:Finnish/isːɑ/2 syllables#KISSA
• Syllabification^(key): kis‧sa
• Hyphenation^(key): kis‧sa

Noun

kissaCategory:Finnish lemmas#KISSACategory:Finnish nouns#KISSACategory:Finnish entries with incorrect language header#KISSACategory:Pages with entries#KISSACategory:Pages with 10 entries#KISSA

1. cat (Felis catus)

   Synonyms: (colloquial) katti, (specific) kesykissa, kotikissa, (diminutive) mirri, kissimirri, (childish) kissi, kisu

2. synonym of kissaeläin (“feline”)
3. (slangCategory:Finnish slang#KISSA) cat, chick, fox (a sexy young woman)

References

Further reading

• “kissa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

Anagrams

• Saksi, aksis, kassi, saksi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kís.sà/Category:Hausa terms with IPA pronunciation#KISSA
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [cɪ́s.sə̀]Category:Hausa terms with IPA pronunciation#KISSA

Noun

kissà f (plural kissōshī, possessed form kissàr̃)Category:Hausa lemmas#KISSACategory:Hausa nouns#KISSACategory:Hausa entries with incorrect language header#KISSACategory:Hausa feminine nouns#KISSACategory:Pages with entries#KISSACategory:Pages with 10 entries#KISSA

1. intrigue, underhand dealing, any deceitful means to accomplishing something

Etymology

Borrowed from an Indo-EuropeanCategory:Ingrian terms borrowed from Indo-European languages#KISSACategory:Ingrian terms derived from Indo-European languages#KISSA language (compare Swedish kisse and Russian киса (kisa)). Cognates include Finnish kissa and Karelian kišša.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkisːɑ/, [ˈkis̠ː]Category:Ingrian terms with IPA pronunciation#KISSA
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkisːɑ/, [ˈkiʃːɑ]Category:Ingrian terms with IPA pronunciation#KISSA
• Rhymes: -isː, -isːɑCategory:Rhymes:Ingrian/isː#KISSACategory:Rhymes:Ingrian/isː/2 syllables#KISSACategory:Rhymes:Ingrian/isːɑ#KISSACategory:Rhymes:Ingrian/isːɑ/2 syllables#KISSA
• Hyphenation: kis‧sa

Noun

kissaCategory:Ingrian lemmas#KISSACategory:Ingrian nouns#KISSACategory:Ingrian entries with incorrect language header#KISSACategory:Pages with entries#KISSACategory:Pages with 10 entries#KISSA

1. cat
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 23:

     Kiko ono kissa. Emma ono hiiri.

     Kiko is a cat. Emma is a mouse.

     Category:Ingrian terms with quotations#KISSA

   • 1937, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 86:

     A siä miks kissaa obiƶoitat?

     And why do you offend a cat?

     Category:Ingrian terms with quotations#KISSA

References

• Fedor Tumansky (1790), “кисса”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 679
• V. I. Junus (1936), Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 8

Romanization

kissaCategory:Japanese non-lemma forms#KISSACategory:Japanese romanizations#KISSACategory:Japanese terms with non-redundant manual script codes#KISSACategory:Japanese entries with incorrect language header#KISSACategory:Pages with entries#KISSACategory:Pages with 10 entries#KISSA

1. Rōmaji transcription of きっさ

Noun

kissa (genitive kissan, partitive kissua)Category:Karelian lemmas#KISSACategory:Karelian nouns#KISSACategory:Karelian entries with incorrect language header#KISSACategory:Pages with entries#KISSACategory:Pages with 10 entries#KISSA

1. superseded spelling of kiššaCategory:Karelian superseded forms#KISSA

References

• P. Zaykov; L. Rugoyeva (1999), “kissa”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN

Etymology

Inherited from FinnishCategory:Kven terms inherited from Finnish#KISSACategory:Kven terms derived from Finnish#KISSA kissa (“cat”), from SwedishCategory:Kven terms derived from Swedish#KISSA kissa (“(female) cat”), feminine form of kisse (“cat, kitty”), from the interjection kiss.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkisːɑ/Category:Kven terms with IPA pronunciation#KISSA

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• Rhymes: -isːɑCategory:Rhymes:Kven/isːɑ#KISSA
• Hyphenation: kis‧sa

Noun

kissa (genitive kissan, partitive kissaa)Category:Kven lemmas#KISSACategory:Kven nouns#KISSACategory:Kven entries with incorrect language header#KISSACategory:Pages with entries#KISSACategory:Pages with 10 entries#KISSA

1. a cat (a domesticated species (Felis catus) of feline animal, commonly kept as a house pet.) (Can we add an example for this sense?)Category:Requests for example sentences in Kven#KISSA
2. a female cat (This entry needs quotations to illustrate usage. If you come across any interesting, durably archived quotes, then please add them!)Category:Requests for quotations in Kven#KISSA

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Alternative forms

Pronoun

kissaCategory:Pali non-lemma forms#KISSACategory:Pali pronoun forms#KISSACategory:Pali interrogative pronouns#KISSACategory:Pali pronoun forms in Latin script#KISSACategory:Pali entries with incorrect language header#KISSACategory:Pages with entries#KISSACategory:Pages with 10 entries#KISSA

1. masculine/neuter genitive/dative singular of ka

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɪsˌa/Category:Swedish terms with IPA pronunciation#KISSA

Etymology 1

OnomatopoeicCategory:Swedish onomatopoeias#KISSA based on pissa.

Etymology 2

Feminine form of kisse.

References

• “kissa”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “kissa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “kissa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Anagrams

• Isaks

Etymology

Borrowed from MalayCategory:Yakan terms borrowed from Malay#KISSACategory:Yakan terms derived from Malay#KISSA kisah, from Classical MalayCategory:Yakan terms derived from Classical Malay#KISSA kissah, from ArabicCategory:Yakan terms derived from Arabic#KISSA قِصَّة (qiṣṣa), possibly via PersianCategory:Yakan terms derived from Persian#KISSA قصه (qesse).

Noun

kissaCategory:Yakan lemmas#KISSACategory:Yakan nouns#KISSACategory:Yakan entries with incorrect language header#KISSACategory:Pages with entries#KISSACategory:Pages with 10 entries#KISSA

1. folktale

Verb

kissaCategory:Yakan lemmas#KISSACategory:Yakan verbs#KISSACategory:Yakan entries with incorrect language header#KISSACategory:Pages with entries#KISSACategory:Pages with 10 entries#KISSA

1. to tell (a fictitious story)