santa

• IPA^(key): /sʌnˈtʌ/
• Hyphenation: san‧ta

santá f (plural sánot m)

1. bag, sack

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “santa”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

santa f (plural santes)

1. saint (woman proclaimed as saint)

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈsan.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈsan.ta/

santa

1. feminine singular of sant

santa f (plural santes)

1. female equivalent of sant

Borrowed from Swedish sand.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑntɑ/, [ˈs̠ɑn̪t̪ɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑntɑ
• Syllabification^(key): san‧ta

santa

1. sand (usually meaning slightly wet sand)

   Synonym: hiekka

• ansat, nasta, natsa, sanat, tasan

santa

1. feminine singular of santo

santa f (plural santas)

1. female equivalent of santo

Borrowed from Esperanto sankta, English saint, French saint, German Sankt, Italian santo, Spanish santo..

• IPA^(key): /ˈsanta/

santa

1. holy

• santeso

From Portuguese santa (“female saint”), from Old Portuguese santa, from Latin sānctus, perfect passive participle of sanciō (“consecrate, appoint as sacred”), from Proto-Indo-European *sān- (“healthy, happy”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈsan.ta]
• Hyphenation: san‧ta

santa (first-person possessive santaku, second-person possessive santamu, third-person possessive santanya)

1. saint (female)

• “santa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsan.ta/
• Rhymes: -anta
• Hyphenation: sàn‧ta

santa f sg

1. feminine singular of santo (“holy”)

santa f (plural sante)

1. saint
2. Saint (before a name of a saint or in place names, as Santa )

• Nasta, Satàn, stana, tansa

santa

1. feminine singular of sant

santa

1. present active participle of atthi (“to be”)
   • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎ (in Pali), page 6; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:

     या च पन सक्कतगन्थेसु समञ्ञा घोसाति वाघोसाति वा ता पयोगे सति एत्थापि पयुज्जते

     Yā ca pana sakkataganthesu samaññā ghosāti vāghosāti vā tā payoge sati etthāpi payujjate.

     And moreover that designation either 'voiced' or 'unvoiced' which is in Sanskrit texts is applied even here when there is occasion.

2. true
3. good

In the locative absolute, the locative singular form is sati irrespective of gender.

santa

1. past participle of sammati (“to be calmed; to dwell”)
2. calmed
3. tranquil

santa

1. past participle of sammati (“to be tired”)
2. tired, exhausted

• Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875, page 461.
• Pali Text Society (1921-1925), “santa”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃tɐ
• Hyphenation: san‧ta

santa f (plural santas)

1. saintess; female equivalent of santo
2. (figuratively, often ironically) a good or kind woman

santa

1. feminine singular of santo

sȃnta f (Cyrillic spelling са̑нта)

1. iceberg

santa f (plural santi)

1. female equivalent of santu

From Old Spanish sancta, from Latin sānctus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsanta/ [ˈsãn̪.t̪a]

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• Rhymes: -anta
• Syllabification: san‧ta

santa f (plural santas)

1. saintess; female equivalent of santo

santa

1. feminine singular of santo

• Semana Santa

• “santo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from Portuguese santa or less probably Spanish santa.

santa

1. holy

• Santa Yeye

santa

1. saint

Borrowed from Spanish santa, feminine of santo.

• Hyphenation: san‧ta
• IPA^(key): /ˈsanta/, [ˈsan.tɐ]

santa

1. feminine of santo: referring to an important figure, item, or event which had a feminine gender in Spanish: holy; sacred (used in certain expressions)

   Synonym: banal

• santisimo
• santisima
• San

santa

1. feminine of santo: female saint
2. feminine of santo: image or statue of a female saint