• Homophones: frasas, frasât

frasa

1. third-person singular past historic of fraser

From earlier form frase, from Dutch frase, from Late Latin phrasis (“diction”), from Ancient Greek φράσις (phrásis, “manner of expression”), from φράζω (phrázō, “I tell, express”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈfrasa]
• Hyphenation: fra‧sa
• Rhymes: -sa, -a

frasa (plural frasa-frasa)

1. phrase: a word or group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, usually consisting of a head, or central word, and elaborating words

• frase

• “frasa”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Old Norse fræs f (“whizzing, hissing”).

frasa (present frasar, preterite frasade, supine frasat, imperative frasa)

1. to rustle (like something dry and brittle, for example dry leaves)
2. to crunch (of something airy and crispy)

• fras
• frasig

• “frasa”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “frasa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “frasa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

• faras, farsa, fasar