losa

See also: lôa, lósa, lòsa, loša, lösa, and losaʼ

Chickasaw

Etymology

Cognate with Choctaw losa, Alabama loca, Mikasuki looci, Creek lasti

Adjective

losaCategory:Chickasaw lemmas#LOSACategory:Chickasaw adjectives#LOSACategory:Chickasaw entries with incorrect language header#LOSACategory:Pages with entries#LOSACategory:Pages with 11 entries#LOSA

  1. black

Verb

losa (stative)Category:Chickasaw lemmas#LOSACategory:Chickasaw verbs#LOSACategory:Chickasaw entries with incorrect language header#LOSACategory:Pages with entries#LOSACategory:Pages with 11 entries#LOSA

  1. to be black

Inflection

Choctaw

Alternative forms

Etymology

Cognate with Chickasaw losa, Alabama loca, Mikasuki looci, Creek lasti

Pronunciation

Noun

losaCategory:Choctaw lemmas#LOSACategory:Choctaw nouns#LOSACategory:Choctaw entries with incorrect language header#LOSACategory:Pages with entries#LOSACategory:Pages with 11 entries#LOSA

  1. black, blackness
  2. smut, soil, blot

Adjective

losaCategory:Choctaw lemmas#LOSACategory:Choctaw adjectives#LOSACategory:Choctaw entries with incorrect language header#LOSACategory:Pages with entries#LOSACategory:Pages with 11 entries#LOSA

  1. black, dark

Verb

losaCategory:Choctaw lemmas#LOSACategory:Choctaw verbs#LOSACategory:Choctaw entries with incorrect language header#LOSACategory:Pages with entries#LOSACategory:Pages with 11 entries#LOSA

  1. to be black

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

losa m animCategory:Czech non-lemma forms#LOSACategory:Czech noun forms#LOSACategory:Czech entries with incorrect language header#LOSACategory:Pages with entries#LOSACategory:Pages with 11 entries#LOSA

  1. genitive/accusative singular of los

Icelandic

Etymology

See laus (“loose”).

Pronunciation

Verb

losa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative losaði, supine losað)Category:Icelandic lemmas#LOSACategory:Icelandic verbs#LOSACategory:Icelandic weak verbs#LOSACategory:Icelandic entries with incorrect language header#LOSACategory:Pages with entries#LOSACategory:Pages with 11 entries#LOSA

  1. to loosen
    Synonyms: leysa, losna
  2. to extricate, unfasten
    Synonym: leysa
  3. to empty

Conjugation

losa – active voice (germynd)
infinitive nafnháttur að losa
supine sagnbót losað
present participle
lýsingarháttur nútíðar
 losandi
indicative
framsöguháttur
 subjunctive
viðtengingarháttur
present
nútíð
 past
þátíð
 present
nútíð
 past
þátíð
singular ég losa losaði losi losaði
þú losar losaðir losir losaðir
hann, hún, það losar losaði losi losaði
plural við losum losuðum losum losuðum
þið losið losuðuð losið losuðuð
þeir, þær, þau losa losuðu losi losuðu
imperative boðháttur
singular þú losa (þú), losaðu
plural þið losið (þið), losiði1
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
losast – mediopassive voice (miðmynd)
infinitive nafnháttur að losast
supine sagnbót losast
present participle
lýsingarháttur nútíðar
 losandist (rare; see appendix)
indicative
framsöguháttur
 subjunctive
viðtengingarháttur
present
nútíð
 past
þátíð
 present
nútíð
 past
þátíð
singular ég losast losaðist losist losaðist
þú losast losaðist losist losaðist
hann, hún, það losast losaðist losist losaðist
plural við losumst losuðumst losumst losuðumst
þið losist losuðust losist losuðust
þeir, þær, þau losast losuðust losist losuðust
imperative boðháttur
singular þú losast (þú), losastu
plural þið losist (þið), losisti1
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
losaður — past participle (lýsingarháttur þátíðar)
strong declension
(sterk beyging)		 singular (eintala) plural (fleirtala)
masculine
(karlkyn)		 feminine
(kvenkyn)		 neuter
(hvorugkyn)		 masculine
(karlkyn)		 feminine
(kvenkyn)		 neuter
(hvorugkyn)
nominative
(nefnifall)		 losaður losuð losað losaðir losaðar losuð
accusative
(þolfall)		 losaðan losaða losað losaða losaðar losuð
dative
(þágufall)		 losuðum losaðri losuðu losuðum losuðum losuðum
genitive
(eignarfall)		 losaðs losaðrar losaðs losaðra losaðra losaðra
weak declension
(veik beyging) 		singular (eintala) plural (fleirtala)
masculine
(karlkyn)		 feminine
(kvenkyn)		 neuter
(hvorugkyn)		 masculine
(karlkyn)		 feminine
(kvenkyn)		 neuter
(hvorugkyn)
nominative
(nefnifall)		 losaði losaða losaða losuðu losuðu losuðu
accusative
(þolfall)		 losaða losuðu losaða losuðu losuðu losuðu
dative
(þágufall)		 losaða losuðu losaða losuðu losuðu losuðu
genitive
(eignarfall)		 losaða losuðu losaða losuðu losuðu losuðu

Further reading

Irish

Noun

losa mCategory:Irish non-lemma forms#LOSACategory:Irish noun forms#LOSACategory:Irish entries with incorrect language header#LOSACategory:Pages with entries#LOSACategory:Pages with 11 entries#LOSA

  1. (nonstandardCategory:Irish nonstandard terms#LOSA) inflection of lus (“plant, herb”):
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative plural

Noun

losa mCategory:Irish non-lemma forms#LOSACategory:Irish noun forms#LOSACategory:Irish entries with incorrect language header#LOSACategory:Pages with entries#LOSACategory:Pages with 11 entries#LOSA

  1. inflection of los (“point, tip; tail; natural increase, produce; result; terminal”):
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative plural

References

Kituba

Verb

losaCategory:Kituba lemmas#LOSACategory:Kituba verbs#LOSACategory:Kituba entries with incorrect language header#LOSACategory:Pages with entries#LOSACategory:Pages with 11 entries#LOSA

  1. to throw

Kongo

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-BantuCategory:Kongo terms inherited from Proto-Bantu#LOSACategory:Kongo terms derived from Proto-Bantu#LOSA *-dùc.

Verb

losaCategory:Kongo lemmas#LOSACategory:Kongo verbs#LOSACategory:Kongo entries with incorrect language header#LOSACategory:Pages with entries#LOSACategory:Pages with 11 entries#LOSA

  1. to throw

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

losa (present tense losar/loser, past tense losa/loste, past participle losa/lost, passive infinitive losastCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk links with redundant wikilinks#LOSACategory:Norwegian Nynorsk links with redundant alt parameters#LOSA, present participle losandeCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk links with redundant wikilinks#LOSACategory:Norwegian Nynorsk links with redundant alt parameters#LOSA, imperative losa/los)Category:Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas#LOSACategory:Norwegian Nynorsk verbs#LOSACategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#LOSACategory:Pages with entries#LOSACategory:Pages with 11 entries#LOSACategory:Norwegian Nynorsk weak verbs

  1. alternative spelling of lóse
  2. alternative spelling of lòse

Old English

Pronunciation

Verb

losaCategory:Old English non-lemma forms#LOSACategory:Old English verb forms#LOSACategory:Old English entries with incorrect language header#LOSACategory:Pages with entries#LOSACategory:Pages with 11 entries#LOSA

  1. singular imperative of losian

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

losa (Cyrillic spelling лоса)Category:Serbo-Croatian non-lemma forms#LOSACategory:Serbo-Croatian noun forms#LOSACategory:Requests for accents in Serbo-Croatian noun form entries#LOSACategory:Serbo-Croatian entries with incorrect language header#LOSACategory:Pages with entries#LOSACategory:Pages with 11 entries#LOSA

  1. genitive/accusative singular of lȍs

Spanish

Etymology

From LatinCategory:Spanish terms derived from Latin#LOSA lausia, of CelticCategory:Spanish terms derived from Celtic languages#LOSA origin, from GaulishCategory:Spanish terms derived from Gaulish#LOSA or CeltiberianCategory:Spanish terms derived from Celtiberian#LOSA *lausia, from Proto-CelticCategory:Spanish terms derived from Proto-Celtic#LOSA *plousā (“stone slab”), of uncertain ultimate origin; possibly from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#LOSA *pleus (“to pluck out”) (cognate with Old Norse flus (“peelings”)), or from Proto-BasqueCategory:Spanish terms derived from Proto-Basque#LOSA *plausa (“stone slab”).

Pronunciation

Noun

losa f (plural losas)Category:Spanish lemmas#LOSACategory:Spanish nouns#LOSACategory:Spanish countable nouns#LOSACategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#LOSACategory:Spanish feminine nouns#LOSACategory:Pages with entries#LOSACategory:Pages with 11 entries#LOSA

  1. flagstone, paving stone, slab, tile (flat, rectangular piece of rock or stone)
    Synonym: baldosa

Verb

losaCategory:Spanish non-lemma forms#LOSACategory:Spanish verb forms#LOSACategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#LOSACategory:Pages with entries#LOSACategory:Pages with 11 entries#LOSA

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

References

  • “losa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
  • Hickey & Puppel (1997): Language History and Linguistic Modelling: A Festschrift for Jacek Fisiak on his 60th Birthday, p. 884

Further reading

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