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Definition 2024


Vasa

Vasa

See also: vasa, vása, våsă, and Váša

Swedish

Proper noun

Vasa

  1. Swedish royal family from 1523 to 1689.
  2. The Swedish name of the city of Vaasa in Finland.

vasa

vasa

See also: Vasa, vása, våsă, and Váša

English

Noun

vasa (plural vasas)

  1. A parrot variety native to Madagascar

Finnish

Noun

vasa

  1. A fawn, or calf (of eg. a deer, elk or antelope).

Usage notes

The calf of a cow is never vasa, but the diminutive form of it, vasikka.

Declension

Inflection of vasa (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative vasa vasat
genitive vasan vasojen
partitive vasaa vasoja
illative vasaan vasoihin
singular plural
nominative vasa vasat
accusative nom. vasa vasat
gen. vasan
genitive vasan vasojen
vasainrare
partitive vasaa vasoja
inessive vasassa vasoissa
elative vasasta vasoista
illative vasaan vasoihin
adessive vasalla vasoilla
ablative vasalta vasoilta
allative vasalle vasoille
essive vasana vasoina
translative vasaksi vasoiksi
instructive vasoin
abessive vasatta vasoitta
comitative vasoineen

Derived terms

See also


Hungarian

Etymology

vas + -a (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvɒʃɒ]
  • Hyphenation: va‧sa

Noun

vasa

  1. third-person singular (single possession) possessive of vas

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative vasa
accusative vasát
dative vasának
instrumental vasával
causal-final vasáért
translative vasává
terminative vasáig
essive-formal vasaként
essive-modal vasául
inessive vasában
superessive vasán
adessive vasánál
illative vasába
sublative vasára
allative vasához
elative vasából
delative vasáról
ablative vasától

Latin

Noun

vāsa

  1. nominative plural of vāsum
  2. accusative plural of vāsum
  3. vocative plural of vāsum

References


Samoan

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic (compare Fijian wasa).

Noun

vasa

  1. ocean

Swedish

Interjection

vasa

  1. huh? what did you say? contraction of vad sade du/ni

Synonyms