acha

From Hausa acca.

acha (uncountable)

1. fonio, esp. Digitaria exilis (white fonio) (a cereal cultivated in western Africa)

fonio

• Digitaria exilis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Digitaria exilis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• acha at USDA Plants database

• Aach

13th century. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese acha (Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Late Latin ascla, from Latin assula. Cognate with Portuguese acha.

• IPA^(key): /ˈat͡ʃa/

acha f (plural achas)

1. chip, sliver, splinter
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 613:

     Et alí ueeriades muytos ferros de muytas lanças agudas entrar per peytos et per adágaras et per uentres, et muytas lanças caer en achas et en tranções, et muytos escudos quebrantados, et moytas lorigas rrotas et desmalladas, et muytas espadas banadas en sange

     And you would have seen there many irons and many spears to enter in breasts and shields and bellies, and many spears to fell broken in chips and splinters, and many shields smashed down, and many coats broken and unmailed, and many swords bathed in blood

   • 1555, Hernán Núñez, Refranes o proverbios en romance:

     A acha tira pra racha (proverb)

     a chip off the old block

   Synonyms: cavaco, estela, racho

2. billet (piece of wood used as firewood)

   Synonym: racha

• estela
• racha
• rachar

• “acha” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “acha” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “acha” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “acha” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “acha” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed from Spanish hacha, from French hache, from Frankish [Term?].

acha

1. axe

• Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C. (2005) Pequeño diccionario ilustrado: Náhuatl de Cuentepec, Morelos‎, segunda edición edition, Tlalpan, D.F., México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., published 2006, page 22

acha f (plural achas)

1. aitch (the letter h, H)

• IPA^(key): /aˈxa/

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• Rhymes: -axa
• Syllabification: a‧cha

acha

1. Alternative spelling of aha.

acha

1. third-person singular present of achać

• acha in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

• Rhymes: -aʃɐ
• Hyphenation: a‧cha

From Old Portuguese acha, from Late Latin ascla (“sliver”), from Latin astula.

acha f (plural achas)

1. billet (piece of wood used as firewood)

   Synonyms: cavaco, estilha, lenha

From Old Portuguese acha, from Old French hache (“battle-axe”), from Frankish.

acha f (plural achas)

1. battle-axe (axe for use in battle)

• machado

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

acha

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

• “acha” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

From Proto-Bantu *-dáca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.tʃɑ/

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-acha (infinitive kuacha)

1. to leave
   • 1975, Taarifa ya mwaka ya Tume ya Kudumu ya Uchunguzi‎, page 37:

     Aliacha milango ya chumba chake imefungwa kwa kufuli lililo madhubuti.

     He left the door to his room closed with a secure padlock.

2. to cease
3. to allow