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za Z0000350 (zä)n. Slang Pizza.
[Shortening and alteration of pizza.]Our Living Language When people speak casually of ordering a za, "pizza," they are unwittingly producing an expression that language historians find interesting. Za derives from the full form pizza by a process known as clipping. Two types of clipping are common in English: dropping the unstressed syllables or syllables not receiving the primary word stress, as in fridge from refrigerator; and dropping all syllables after the first syllable, as in ab, dis, porn, and vibe, whether or not the first syllable was originally stressed. In the case of za, the syllable that was dropped was originally stressed and was the first syllable, which is unusual. Rents from parents and nads from gonads are other examples of the same kind of clipping. Interestingly, we don't need to stay in the realm of contemporary slang to see the results of this unusual process. The words phone, bus, and wig (from telephone, omnibus, periwig) belong to Standard English but had their start as slangy or catchy neologisms formed by clipping their most strongly stressed syllable, just like za.za the internet domain name for (Computer Science) South Africa
ZA abbreviation for (Automotive Engineering) South Africa (international car registration) [from Afrikaans Zuid Afrika]za (zɑ)
n. Slang. pizza. [1965–70, Amer.; by shortening] za
za (networking)The country code for South Africa.Za organizations of artisans and merchants in medieval Japan, similar to medieval European guilds. They existed mainly from the 12th century to the 16th. They paid tribute to their feudal lords for protection and for the maintainance of their monopoly rights to produce and sell goods in a particular region. At the end of the 16th century Nobunaga Oda and Hideyoshi Toyotomi abolished many of the ia. Between the 17th and 19th centuries they were for the most part replaced by other monopoly organizations, such as the nakama and kabunakama. REFERENCEIskenderov, A. A. Feodal’nyi gorod laponii XVI stoletiia. Moscow, 1961.MedicalSeeimpedanceZA
ZAThe two-character ISO 3166 country code for SOUTH AFRICA.ZA1. ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for the Republic of South Africa. This is the code used in international transactions to and from South African bank accounts.
2. ISO 3166-2 geocode for South Africa. This is used as an international standard for shipping to South Africa. Each province has its own code with the prefix "ZA." For example, the code for Free State is ISO 3166-2:ZA-FS.ZA
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