kissa

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)

• kissanpentu
• kolli

• Kven: kissa

• “kissa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

• Saksi, aksis, kassi, saksi

• 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

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

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkisːɑ/, [ˈkis̠ː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkisːɑ/, [ˈkiʃːɑ]
• Rhymes: -isː, -isːɑ
• Hyphenation: kis‧sa

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.

• kasi

• 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkisːɑ/

• 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɪsˌa/

Onomatopoeic based on pissa.

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

1. to pee

   Synonyms: pinka, pissa

• kissa på sig

• kissare

• sittkissare
• ståkissare

Feminine form of kisse.

kissa c

1. (colloquial, endearing) (female) cat, pussy-cat

   Synonym: katta

• kissa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• kissa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• kissa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• Isaks

kissa

1. folktale

kissa

1. to tell (a fictitious story)