parsa

Hebrew פרסה (parsa)

parsa (plural parsas)

1. A Hebrew measure of itinerant distance: one parsa is about four kilometers, approximately the distance a man can walk in 72 minutes; a parasang.

• Psara, Raaps, apars, apsar, paras.

Borrowed from Russian спа́ржа (spárža), from Italian spáragio, from Latin asparagus, from Ancient Greek ἀσπάραγος (aspáragos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑrsɑ/, [ˈpɑ̝rs̠ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑrsɑ
• Syllabification^(key): par‧sa

parsa

1. Synonym of ruokaparsa (“asparagus plant, Asparagus officinalis”).
2. asparagus (edible young shoot of Asparagus officinalis)
3. (in the plural) Asparagus (genus)

• “parsa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (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

• paras

• IPA^(key): /ˈpar.sa/
• Rhymes: -arsa
• Hyphenation: pàr‧sa

parsa f sg

1. feminine singular of parso

• aspra, raspa, saprà, spara

parsa

1. inflection of parsus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

parsā

1. ablative feminine singular of parsus

parsa

1. Misspelling of parça.