ganta

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English

Etymology

From Spanish ganta, from Cebuano gantang, from Malay gantang. Doublet of gantang.

Noun

ganta (plural gantas)

  1. (Philippines, historical) A unit of volume equivalent to eight chupas.

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin ganta.

Pronunciation

Noun

ganta f (plural gantes)

  1. stork
    Synonym: cigonya

Further reading

French

Verb

ganta

  1. third-person singular past historic of ganter

Anagrams

Komering

Adverb

ganta

  1. now

Latin

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰans-. Cognate with Latin ānser.

Pronunciation

Noun

ganta f (genitive gantae); first declension

  1. a goose of Germany

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative ganta gantae
genitive gantae gantārum
dative gantae gantīs
accusative gantam gantās
ablative gantā gantīs
vocative ganta gantae

Descendants

  • Catalan: ganta

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)

  1. (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)

  1. ganta (unit of grain measure of approximately three liters)
    Synonym: salop
See also

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Adjective

gantá (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜈ᜔ᜆ)

  1. divided and cut into minute parts
See also

Anagrams

Yogad

Noun

ganta

  1. ganta (twenty-five of which makes one kaban)
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