acca

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See also: Acca

English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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acca (plural accas)

  1. (slang) An accumulator bet.

Etymology 2

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Noun

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acca (plural accas)

  1. (Australia, slang) An academic.
    • 1979, Meanjin, volume 38, page 184:
      [] a faintly anglophiliac university atmosphere: the polarities threaten to split the character apart. The tensions would have been particularly interesting if the accas hadn't been so corrupt.
    • 2011, Don Graham, State of Minds: Texas Culture and Its Discontents, page 155:
      [] academics (or accas as the Aussies call them) []

Anagrams

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Hausa

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Etymology

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Cognate with Mangas asha, Bura acà.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʔát͡ʃ.t͡ʃàː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [ʔát.t͡ʃàː]
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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accā̀ f (possessed form accàr̃)

  1. acha, fonio (Digitaria exilis)

Descendants

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  • English: acha

References

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  • Paul Newman, A Hausa-English Dictionary (2007)

Italian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *acca (aitch).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈak.ka/
  • Rhymes: -akka
  • Hyphenation: àc‧ca

Noun

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acca f (invariable)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter H/h.; aitch

See also

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Anagrams

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Old Irish

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Verb

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·acca

  1. first/second-person singular preterite/perfect prototonic of ad·cí

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
·acca
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged ·n-acca
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scots

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Noun

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acca (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of ackwa

References

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