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English
Etymology
From Spanish ganta, from Cebuano gantang, from Malay gantang. Doublet of gantang.
Noun
ganta (plural gantas)
- (Philippines, historical) A unit of volume equivalent to eight chupas.
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Latin ganta.
Pronunciation
Noun
ganta f (plural gantes)
- stork
- Synonym: cigonya
Further reading
French
Verb
ganta
- third-person singular past historic of ganter
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰans-. Cognate with Latin ānser.
Pronunciation
Noun
ganta f (genitive gantae); first declension
- a goose of Germany
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “ganta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ganta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Cebuano gantang, from Malay gantang.
Noun
ganta f (plural gantas)
- (Philippines, historical) a ganta
Descendants
Further reading
Tagalog
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Spanish ganta, from Cebuano gantang, from Malay gantang.
Pronunciation
Noun
ganta (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜈ᜔ᜆ)
- ganta (unit of grain measure of approximately three liters)
- Synonym: salop
See also
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Adjective
gantá (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜈ᜔ᜆ)
- divided and cut into minute parts
See also
Anagrams
Yogad
Noun
ganta
- ganta (twenty-five of which makes one kaban)