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Borrowed from Swedish 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)).

  • IPA(key): /ˈkisːɑ/, [ˈk̟is̠ːɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -isːɑ
  • Hyphenation(key): kis‧sa

kissa

  1. cat (Felis catus)
    Synonyms: (colloquial) katti, (specific) kesykissa, kotikissa, (diminutive) mirri, kissimirri, (childish) kissi, kisu
  2. Synonym of kissaeläin (“feline”)
  3. (slang) cat, chick, fox (a sexy young woman)
  1. ^ Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN
  • IPA(key): /kís.sà/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [cɪ́s.sə̀]

kissà f (plural kissōshī, possessed form kissàr̃)

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

Borrowed from an Indo-European language (compare Swedish kisse and Russian киса (kisa)). Cognates include Finnish kissa and Karelian kišša.

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.

    • 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?
Declension of kissa (type 3/kana, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative kissa kissat
genitive kissan kissoin
partitive kissaa kissoja
illative kissaa kissoi
inessive kissaas kissois
elative kissast kissoist
allative kissalle kissoille
adessive kissaal kissoil
ablative kissalt kissoilt
translative kissaks kissoiks
essive kissanna, kissaan kissoinna, kissoin
exessive1) kissant kissoint
1) obsolete
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.
  • 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[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 8

kissa

  1. Rōmaji transcription of きっさ

kissa (genitive kissan, partitive kissua)

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 Superseded spelling of kišša.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

Inherited from Finnish kissa (“cat”), from Swedish kissa (“(female) cat”), feminine form of kisse (“cat, kitty”), from the interjection kiss.

  • Rhymes: -isːɑ
  • Hyphenation: kis‧sa

kissa (genitive kissan, partitive kissaa)

  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?)
  2. a female cat
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kissa

  1. masculine/neuter genitive/dative singular of ka

Onomatopoeic based on pissa.

kissa (present kissar, preterite kissade, supine kissat, imperative kissa)

  1. to pee
    Synonyms: pinka, pissa
Conjugation of kissa (weak)
active passive
infinitive kissa —
supine kissat —
imperative kissa —
imper. plural1 kissen —
present past present past
indicative kissar kissade — —
ind. plural1 kissa kissade — —
subjunctive2 kisse kissade — —
present participle kissande
past participle —

Feminine form of kisse.

kissa c

  1. (colloquial, endearing) (female) cat, pussy-cat
    Synonym: katta

kissa

  1. folktale

kissa

  1. to tell (a fictitious story)

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