tassa

See also: tässä

English

Noun

tassa (plural tassas)

1. A large Indian drum, traditionally played at weddings.
   • 1999, Kenrick P. Thomas, Panriga: Tacarigua's Contribution to the Evolution of the Steelband Phenomenon in Trinidad and Tobago:

     African men in the district also excelled on the tassa drums at the Indian weddings and hosay festivals, playing alongside their Indian fellow villagers.

   • 2006, Hemchand Gossai, River Crossings: Memories of a Journey, →ISBN:

     He was widely recognized as the finest tassa player in the area. Some may be skilled, but his was a gift.

   • 2013, King Liar, →ISBN, page 106:

     Together, the four tassa players produced an intoxicating rhythm that held the visitors almost entranced. A group of old Indian women in bright coloured saris were waiting for the tassa group to finish their performance so that they might start singing the traditional wedding songs.

Anagrams

• ASATs, StaaS, Astas

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic طاسة (ṭāsa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈta.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈta.sa]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -asa

Noun

tassa f (plural tasses)

1. cup, mug
2. basin, bowl (of a toilet)

Further reading

• “tassa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tassa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “tassa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tassa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Verb

tassa

1. third-person singular past historic of tasser

Interlingua

Noun

tassa (plural tassas)

1. cup

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtas.sa/
• Rhymes: -assa
• Hyphenation: tàs‧sa

Etymology 1

From Latin taxa.

Noun

tassa f (plural tasse)

1. tax, duty, dues

Derived terms

• esentasse

Related terms

• tassabile
• tassametro
• tassare
• tassazione

See also

• imposta
• tasso

Etymology 2

Verb

tassa

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

Further reading

• tassa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• stasa

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀢𑀲𑁆𑀲 (Brahmi script)
• तस्स (Devanagari script)
• তস্স (Bengali script)
• තස‍්ස (Sinhalese script)
• တဿ or တသ်သ (Burmese script)
• ตสฺส or ตัสสะ (Thai script)
• ᨲᩔ (Tai Tham script)
• ຕສ຺ສ or ຕັສສະ (Lao script)
• តស្ស (Khmer script)
• 𑄖𑄥𑄴𑄥 (Chakma script)

Adjective

tassa

1. masculine/neuter genitive/dative singular of ta (“that”)

Pronoun

tassa

1. (demonstrative) to him, to it, to that
2. (demonstrative) his, its, of that
3. therefore

Swedish

Etymology

tass +‎ -a, or onomatopoeic.

Verb

tassa (present tassar, preterite tassade, supine tassat, imperative tassa)

1. to walk quietly (for example so as to not wake up someone asleep)

Conjugation

Conjugation of tassa (weak)

	active		passive
infinitive	tassa		—
supine	tassat		—
imperative	tassa		—
imper. plural1	tassen		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	tassar	tassade	—	—
ind. plural1	tassa	tassade	—	—
subjunctive2	tasse	tassade	—	—
present participle		tassande
past participle		—

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

References

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

Anagrams

• satsa