kansa

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnsɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑnsɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): kan‧sa

From Proto-Finnic *kansa, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *hansō (earlier *hansā).^[1] Cognate with Livvi kanzu, Veps kanz.

kansa

1. people, nation (community of people united by shared culture or ethnicity, or the inhabitants of a country)

   Synonym: kansakunta (see usage notes)

2. people, populace (the inhabitants of a region)
3. people (an undefined mass of people)

   Torilla on tänään paljon kansaa.

   There are a lot of people in the market today.

4. people (the common people)

   Synonym: rahvas (relatively derogatory)

   Hän nousi kansan riveistä politiikan huipulle.

   He rose from the ranks of the common people to the top of politics.

• In the sense "nation, people" the terms kansa and kansakunta are nearly synonymous, although kansa tends to refer to a cultural or ethnic entity and kansakunta to a political entity.

• “kansa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

From kanssa. Compare kans.

kansa (dialectal)

1. Alternative form of kanssa.

• kasan, sakan, sanka

From Proto-Finnic *kansa, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *hansō. Cognates include Finnish kansa and Veps kanz.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnsɑ/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnsɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑns, -ɑnsɑ
• Hyphenation: kan‧sa
• Homophone: kans

kansa

1. people, nation
   • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 3:

     Iƶorat laatiit kansan, kumpa keelen poolest kuuluu läns-fenniläisiin kansoin gruppaa ja sil viisii i iƶoroin keeli kuuluu läns-fenniläisee keelisisteemaa.

     The Ingrians make up a people, that based on their language belongs to the group of Finnic peoples and as such the language of Ingrians also belongs to the Finnic language family.

• rahvas

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 132
• Olga I. Konkova, Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎, →ISBN, page 53

kansa

1. Rōmaji transcription of かんさ

Cognate to Finnish kanssa.

kansa

1. also

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kansa

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kansa class IX (plural kansa class X)

1. cancer (disease of uncontrolled cellular proliferation)

• saratani

kansa (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜈ᜔ᜐ)

1. metal