kiesa

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• IPA^(key): /ˈki.sa/

kiesa (present kiesa, present participle kiesaende, past participle gekiesa)

1. (rare) to drizzle, to rain lightly in fine droplets
   • 2018 September 7, Jana Luther, “Jaloersbuie tot komloertjie en dambrekerbuie”, in Beeld:

     Sifreën aan die ander kant, val aanhoudend. Soms kiesa, of kwietsja, dit dae aaneen.

     Mist rain, on the other hand, falls continuously. Sometimes it drizzles, or mizzles, for days on end.

   Synonyms: misreën, motreën, sifreën

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish كیسه‎, from Persian کیسه‎, from Middle Persian *kīsag, from Akkadian 𒋢𒃻𒉌𒌓 (kīsu, “leather bag for weights and silver; silver capital; treasury”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkjɛ.sa/

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• Rhymes: -ɛsa
• Syllabification: kie‧sa

kiesa f (diminutive kieska)

1. (obsolete) pouch

   Synonyms: kabza, mieszek, sakiewka

2. (figurative, literary) assets, capital

   Synonyms: kapitał, majątek, trzos

• kiesa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kiesa in Polish dictionaries at PWN