nosa

See also: nôșa, носа, and ноша

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin nausia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈnɔ.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈnɔ.za]

Noun

nosa f (plural noses)

1. nuisance, encumbrance

Fala

Alternative forms

• nossa (Frades Gaspar's form)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese nossa, from Latin nostram.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnosa/
• Rhymes: -osa
• Syllabification: no‧sa

Determiner

nosa f sg

1. feminine singular of nosu (“our”)
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme II, Chapter 2: Recunquista:

     Non poemos analizar con pormenoris estis siglos, pero tampoco se debi toleral que, sin fundamentus, se poña en duda algo que a Historia documentá nos lega sobre nossa terra.

     We can’t thoroughly analyse these centuries, but one mustn’t tolerate that, unfoundedly, something documented history tells us about our land be questioned.

Pronoun

nosa f sg

1. feminine singular of nosu (“ours”)

See also

Fala possessive determiners and pronouns

			possessee
			singular		plural
			masculine	feminine	masculine	feminine
possessor	first person	singular	mei	miña	meis	miñas
		plural	nosu	nosa	nosus	nosas
	second person	singular	tei	túa, tu1	teis	túas, tus1
		plural	vosu	vosa	vosus	vosas
	third person		sei	súa, su1	seis	súas, sus1

¹ Determiner forms used in Lagarteiru before a noun.

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese nossa, from Vulgar Latin *nossa, from Latin nostra(m), feminine of noster (“ours”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔsɐ/

Pronoun

nosa f (masculine singular noso, masculine plural nosos, feminine singular nosa, feminine plural nosas)

1. (possessive) ours

See also

• Appendix:Galician pronouns

Further reading

• “nosa”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnɔsa]

Noun

nosa

1. genitive singular of nos
2. nominative dual of nos
3. accusative dual of nos

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• nosen

Noun

nosa m or f

1. definite feminine singular of nos

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

nosa f

1. definite singular of nos

Old English

Noun

nosa

1. inflection of nosu:
   1. accusative/genitive/dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ.sa/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔsa
• Syllabification: no‧sa

Noun

nosa m inan

1. genitive singular of nos

Swedish

Etymology

nos +‎ -a

Verb

nosa (present nosar, preterite nosade, supine nosat, imperative nosa)

1. to sniff (especially of an animal)

   Hunden nosade på honom

   The dog sniffed him

2. (figuratively) to snoop (look at (or investigate) things (which may be out of one's business))

   nosa i andras affärer

   go snooping in other people's business

3. to briefly try to do something to see if one likes it

Conjugation

Conjugation of nosa (weak)

	active		passive
infinitive	nosa		nosas
supine	nosat		nosats
imperative	nosa		—
imper. plural1	nosen		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	nosar	nosade	nosas	nosades
ind. plural1	nosa	nosade	nosas	nosades
subjunctive2	nose	nosade	noses	nosades
present participle		nosande
past participle		nosad

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Related terms

• nos
• uppnosig

References

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

Anagrams

• onas, sona