gâscă

See also: Gasca, gașca, gașcă, gâsca, and Gâscă

Romanian

gâște

Alternative forms

• гыскэ (gîscă) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Borrowed from Bulgarian гъска (gǎska), from Proto-Slavic *gǫ̑sь, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɨs.kə/

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• Rhymes: -ɨskə
• Hyphenation: gâs‧că

Noun

gâscă f (plural gâște, masculine equivalent gâscan or gânsac)

1. goose (a grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae)
   1. (specifically) female goose
2. (figurative, derogatory) goose (stupid person, especially a woman)

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	gâscă	gâsca		gâște	gâștele
genitive-dative	gâște	gâștei		gâște	gâștelor
vocative	gâscă, gâsco			gâștelor

References

• gâscă in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)