gansa

English

Etymology 1

Noun

gansa (plural gansas)

1. Alternative form of ganza (“kind of wild goose”)

References

• “gansa”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Etymology 2

Noun

gansa (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of ganza (“type of metal”)

Anagrams

• Agans, Angas, Nāgas, Sagan, Sanga, nagas, nāgas, sagan, sanga

Asi

Noun

gansa

1. goose

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• gangsa

Etymology

From Spanish gansa, feminine of ganso, from Gothic *𐌲𐌰𐌽𐍃 (*gans, “goose”), from Proto-Germanic *gans (“goose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰans-. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) Doublet of hansa. See also Tagalog gansa.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: gan‧sa

Noun

gansa

1. a goose

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑ̃.sa/

Verb

gansa

1. third-person singular past historic of ganser

Hiligaynon

Noun

gansa

1. gander, goose

Northern Catanduanes Bicolano

Noun

gansa

1. goose

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɐ̃.sɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃sɐ
• Hyphenation: gan‧sa

Noun

gansa f (plural gansas)

1. female equivalent of ganso

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡansa/ [ˈɡãn.sa]
• Rhymes: -ansa
• Syllabification: gan‧sa

Noun

gansa f (plural gansas)

1. female equivalent of ganso
2. goose (female in contrast with male gander)

Adjective

gansa f

1. feminine singular of ganso

Further reading

• “ganso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Malay gangsa, variant of angsa (“goose”), from Sanskrit हंस (haṃsa), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰansás (“goose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns (“goose”). Compare Kapampangan galsa, Bikol Central gangsa, Waray-Waray gangsa, Tausug angsa', Malay angsa, Javanese ꦒꦁꦱ (gangsa), Burmese ဟင်္သာ (hangsa), and Hindi हंस (hans). Some sources think it is from Spanish gansa (“female goose”) (also related to Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns), but this is rejected by Potet (2016) and Zorc (1982).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɡanˈsaʔ/ [ɡɐn̪ˈsaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: gan‧sa

Noun

gansâ (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜈ᜔ᜐ)

1. goose; gander

Alternative forms

• gangsa — obsolete

Derived terms

• gansaan

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɡansa/ [ˈɡan̪.sɐ]
• Rhymes: -ansa
• Syllabification: gan‧sa

Noun

gansa (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜈ᜔ᜐ)

1. Alternative form of gangsa

Further reading

• “gansa”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “gansa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier, page 120: “GANGSA. pc. ganso.”
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[2], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 328: “Ganſo) Gangſa [(pc)] C. grande [que los] traen [de china]”
• Zorc, David Paul (1982) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 3, page 133
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 282

Anagrams

• agnas, angas, sanga