different between fonio vs acha

English

Etymology

From French fonio, from Wolof foño.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f??nj??/

Noun

fonio (uncountable)

1. Digitaria exilis, a cereal cultivated in western Africa; white fonio

   Synonym: hungry rice

2. Digitaria iburua, a cereal cultivated in western Africa, black fonio

Synonyms

• acha

Hypernyms

• (grain crop): grain, cereal

Coordinate terms

• (Cereals) cereal; barley, fonio, maize/corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, teff, triticale, wheat

Translations

References

• fonio on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Digitaria exilis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Digitaria iburua on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Digitaria exilis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Digitaria exilis at USDA Plants database

Finnish

Noun

fonio

1. fonio (white and black)

Declension

Hypernyms

• hirssi

Anagrams

• fooni

French

Etymology

From Wolof foño.

Noun

fonio m (plural fonios)

1. Digitaria exilis, a cereal cultivated in western Africa

English

Etymology

From Hausa acca

Noun

acha (uncountable)

1. fonio, esp. Digitaria exilis (white fonio) (a cereal cultivated in western Africa)

Synonyms

fonio

Further reading

• Digitaria exilis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Digitaria exilis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• acha at USDA Plants database

Anagrams

• Aach

Galician

Etymology

13th century. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese acha (Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Vulgar Latin *ascla, from Latin assula. Cognate with Portuguese acha.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?at??a/

Noun

acha f (plural achas)

1. chip, sliver, splinter
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 613:

     Et alí ueeriades muytos ferros de muytas lanças agudas entrar per peytos et per adágaras et per uentres, et muytas lanças caer en achas et en tranções, et muytos escudos quebrantados, et moytas lorigas rrotas et desmalladas, et muytas espadas banadas en sange

     And you would have seen there many irons and many spears to enter in breasts and shields and bellies, and many spears to fell broken in chips and splinters, and many shields smashed down, and many coats broken and unmailed, and many swords bathed in blood

   • 1555, Hernán Núñez, Refranes o proverbios en romance:

     A acha tira pra racha (proverb)

     a chip off the old block

   Synonyms: cavaco, estela, racho

2. billet (piece of wood used as firewood)

   Synonym: racha

Related terms

• estela
• racha
• rachar

References

• “acha” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “acha” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “acha” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “acha” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “acha” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Morelos Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish hacha, from French hache, from Frankish [Term?].

Noun

acha

1. axe

References

• Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C. (2005) Pequeño diccionario ilustrado: Náhuatl de Cuentepec, Morelos?^[1], segunda edición edition, Tlalpan, D.F., México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., published 2006, page 22

Occitan

Noun

acha f (plural achas)

1. aitch (the letter h, H)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?a.??/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?a.?a/, /?a.??/
• Hyphenation: a?cha

Etymology 1

Inflected form of achar (“to find; to think”).

Verb

acha

1. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present indicative of achar
2. Second-person singular (tu) affirmative imperative of achar

Etymology 2

From Old Portuguese acha, from Vulgar Latin *ascla (“sliver”), from Latin astula.

Noun

acha f (plural achas)

1. billet (piece of wood used as firewood)

   Synonyms: cavaco, estilha, lenha

Etymology 3

From Old Portuguese acha, from Old French hache (“battle-axe”), from Frankish.

Noun

acha f (plural achas)

1. battle-axe (axe for use in battle)

See also

• machado

Further reading

• “acha” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Swahili

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-dáca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.t??/

Verb

-acha (infinitive kuacha)

1. to leave
2. to cease
3. to allow

Conjugation

Further reading

• acha in Swahili Oxford Living Dictionaries, Oxford University Press

Welsh

Etymology

From ar (“on”) +? uchaf (“highest, top”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?a/

Preposition

acha

1. (South Wales, colloquial) on

   Synonyms: ar, ar gefn

2. (South Wales, colloquial) with (denoting an instrument)

   Synonyms: â, efo, gyda

Usage notes

• Acha is used with indefinite nouns. The equivalent for definite nouns when it means "on" is ar.

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “acha”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Western Apache

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish hacha

Noun

acha

1. axe

Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish hacha, from French hache, from Frankish [Term?].

Noun

acha

1. axe

References

• Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C. (2006) Pequeño diccionario ilustrado: Náhuatl de los municipios de Zacatlán, Tepetzintla y Ahuacatlán?^[3], segunda edición edition, Tlalpan, D.F. México: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 22