gansa

gansa (plural gansas)

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

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

gansa (uncountable)

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

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

gansa

1. goose

• gangsa

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.

• Hyphenation: gan‧sa

gansa

1. a goose

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑ̃.sa/

gansa

1. third-person singular past historic of ganser

gansa

1. gander, goose

gansa

1. goose

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃sɐ
• Hyphenation: gan‧sa

gansa f (plural gansas)

1. female equivalent of ganso

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

gansa f (plural gansas)

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

gansa f

1. feminine singular of ganso

• “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

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”), but this is rejected by Potet (2016) and Zorc (1982).

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

gansâ (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜈ᜔ᜐ)

1. goose; gander

• gangsa — obsolete

Borrowed from Malay gangsa (“bell-metal; bronze”), from Sanskrit कंस (kaṃsa). Compare Kankanaey gangsa, Tausug gangsa', Indonesian kangsa, Javanese ꦒꦁꦱ (gangsa) and Balinese ᬕᬗ᭄ᬲ (gangsa).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɡansa/
• Rhymes: -ansa
• Syllabification: gan‧sa

gansa (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜈ᜔ᜐ) (music)

1. Ifugao brass gong with convex side and forked stick as a handle

• “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 (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, 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

• agnas, angas, sanga