bangsi

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• mangsi

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bang‧si

Noun

bangsi

1. a flying fish; a tropical marine fish of the family Exocoetidae

Icelandic

Noun

bangsi m (genitive singular bangsa, nominative plural bangsar)

1. teddy bear

Declension

Declension of bangsi (masculine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bangsi	bangsinn	bangsar	bangsarnir
accusative	bangsa	bangsann	bangsa	bangsana
dative	bangsa	bangsanum	böngsum	böngsunum
genitive	bangsa	bangsans	bangsa	bangsanna

Further reading

• “bangsi” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Sanskrit वंशी (vaṃśī).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbaŋsi/ [ˈbaŋ.si]
• Rhymes: -aŋsi
• Syllabification: bang‧si

Noun

bangsi (plural bangsi-bangsi)

1. (dialectal) Synonym of seruling (“flute”)

Further reading

• “bangsi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• bansi

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay bangsi, ultimately from Sanskrit वंशी (vaṃśī, “pipe; flute”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /baŋˈsiʔ/ [bɐn̪ˈsiʔ]
• Rhymes: -iʔ
• Syllabification: bang‧si

Noun

bangsî (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜅ᜔ᜐᜒ)

1. straw or glass tube (for sipping liquid from any container)

   Synonyms: sipsipan, istro

2. (music) native flute (made of reed or rice stalk)
3. flying fish

   Synonyms: isdanglawin, balang, barongoy, bolador

Derived terms

• bangsian
• bangsiin
• bangsing-tao
• magbangsi
• panday-bangsi

 

See also

• bulubudyong
• halusan
• huwaho
• istro
• panipsip
• plawta
• tambuli
• turotot

 

Further reading

• “bangsi”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “bangsi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[1], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 321: “Flauta) Bangſi (pc) de Igleſia”

Anagrams

• bangis