santa

santa (plural santas)

1. (informal) Alternative letter-case form of Santa (noun).

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

santá f (plural sánot m)

1. bag, sack

Declension of santá
absolutive	santá
predicative	santá
subjective	santá
genitive	santá
Postpositioned forms l-case santál k-case santák t-case santát h-case santáh

• 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)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

santa f (plural santes)

1. saint (woman proclaimed as saint)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsan.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsan.ta]

santa

1. feminine singular of sant

santa f (plural santes)

1. female equivalent of sant

Borrowed from Proto-Norse [Term?] (compare Old Norse sandr, Swedish sand).

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

santa

1. sand (usually slightly wet sand)

   Synonym: hiekka

   • unknown, unknown, “Oi kallis kotimaa”, in "Sotilaspoika", editor, Suomen sotilaan lauluja, 4th edition, Porvoo: Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö, published 1933:

     Poikia on haudattu Balkanin santaan
     Toiselle puolelle Tonavan.

     (Our) boys have been buried in Balkan sand
     on the other side of the Danube

• “santa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• ansat, nasta, natsa, sanat, tasan

santa (Old Beaujolais)

1. Alternative form of santât (“health”)

• santa in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

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

Borrowed from Portuguese santa (“female saint”), from Old Galician-Portuguese santa. See the entry santo for more information.

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

santa f

1. feminine of santo (“saint”)

• 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

From Portuguese santo.

santa

1. holy

santa

1. saint

santa

1. feminine singular of sant

santa f sg

1. feminine singular of santo

Inherited from Sanskrit सन्त् (sant).

santa

1. present active participle of atthi (“to be”)
   • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎^[3] (overall work 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) “sant”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead
• 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

• sancta (obsolete)

Inherited 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

• “santo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Borrowed from Portuguese santa or less probably Spanish santa.

santa

1. holy

• Santa Yeye

santa

1. saint

Borrowed from Spanish santa, feminine of santo.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsanta/ [ˈsan̪.t̪ɐ], /sanˈta/ [sɐn̪ˈt̪a]
• Rhymes: -anta, -a
• Syllabification: san‧ta

santa or santá (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜈ᜔ᜆ)

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

santa or santá (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜈ᜔ᜆ)

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

• “santa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• antsa, antas