risa

From Latin rīsa, feminine past participle of rīdeō.

risa f (plural rises)

1. laugh

• rir

• Hyphenation: ri‧sa
• IPA^(key): /ˈɾisa/ [ˈɾi.sa]

rísa

1. to notice; to discern; to detect; to perceive

   Synonyms: malisya, riparo

From Latin risa, feminine past participle of rideo. Cognates include Italian riso and Spanish risa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrisa/
• Hyphenation: ri‧sa

risa f (plural rise)

1. laughter

• “risa” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
• Mathée Giacomo-Marcellesi (1997), Corse, LINCOM, →ISBN, page 4

risa

1. nit; louse egg

• IPA^(key): /ˈrisɑ/, [ˈris̠ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -isɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ri‧sa
• Hyphenation^(key): ri‧sa

Either a back-formation from risahtaa, like etymology 2, and/or a borrowing from Old Swedish bris, vris (whence Swedish bräss and also related to German Bries).

risa

1. (anatomy) tonsil

• tonsilla

• “2. risa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

Probably a back-formation from risahtaa.

risa (comparative risampi or risempi, superlative risoin or risin) (colloquial)

1. broken

• rikkinäinen

risa (colloquial)

1. shred, scrap

• “1. risa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

• Arsi, Sari, rasi, rias, sari

risa

1. indefinite genitive plural of ris

• IPA^(key): /ˈri.za/, (traditional) /ˈri.sa/^[1]
• Rhymes: -iza, (traditional) -isa
• Hyphenation: rì‧sa

risa f

1. plural of riso (“laugh”)

risa

1. feminine singular of riso

risa

1. misspelling of risà (third-person singular present indicative of risapere)

• arsi, rais, rasi, sari

rīsa

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

rīsā

1. ablative feminine singular of rīsus

From Old Norse rísa. Akin to English rise.

• rise

• IPA^(key): /²riːsɑ/

risa (present tense ris, past tense reis, past participle rise, present participle risande, imperative ris)

1. to rise, stand up, get up

   Eg ris alltid tidleg om morgonen.

   I always get up early in the morning.

From the noun ris.

• rise

• IPA^(key): /²riːsɑ/

risa (present tense risar, past tense risa, past participle risa, passive infinitive risast, present participle risande, imperative risa/ris)

1. to spank

• IPA^(key): /ˈriːsɑ/

risa n

1. definite plural of ris

• “risa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse rísa, from Proto-Germanic *rīsaną.

rīsa

1. to rise

• Swedish: risa

risa (Cyrillic spelling риса)

1. genitive/accusative singular of ris

Inherited from Latin rīsa, neuter plural perfect passive participle of rīdeō. Also possibly gender-flipped from risus, which means "laughter".

• IPA^(key): /ˈrisa/ [ˈri.sa]

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• Rhymes: -isa
• Syllabification: ri‧sa

risa f (plural risas)

1. laugh, laughter (sound of laughing)

   Me das risa ― You make me laugh

2. laughter (movement of the face)

• “risa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• asir
• irás
• iras

ris +‎ -a

risa (present risar, preterite risade, supine risat, imperative risa)

1. to criticize, to give negative criticism (to)

   Antonym: rosa

   Nisse har både risats och rosats för sina uttalanden kring kriminalvården

   Nisse has both been criticized and (been) praised for his statements surrounding the correctional system

2. to cover (something) with brushwood
3. to spank, to birch (spank (someone) with a bundle of twigs)

• risa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• risa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• risa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)