# gansa
## English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

gansa (plural gansas)
* 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)
* Alternative form of ganza (“type of metal”)

### Anagrams

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

## Asi
### Noun

gansa
* 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
* a goose

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡɑ̃.sa/

### Verb

gansa
* third-person singular past historic of ganser

## Hiligaynon
### Noun

gansa
* gander, goose

## Northern Catanduanes Bicolano
### Noun

gansa
* goose

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɐ̃.sɐ/
* Rhymes: -ɐ̃sɐ
* Hyphenation: gan‧sa

### Noun

gansa f (plural gansas)
* female equivalent of ganso

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡansa/ [ˈɡãn.sa]
* Rhymes: -ansa
* Syllabification: gan‧sa

### Noun

gansa f (plural gansas)
* female equivalent of ganso
* goose (female in contrast with male gander)

### Adjective

gansa f
* 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: /ɡanˈsaʔ/ [ɡɐn̪ˈsaʔ]
* Rhymes: -aʔ
* Syllabification: gan‧sa

#### Noun

gansâ (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜈ᜔ᜐ)
* goose; gander

##### Alternative forms

* gangsa — obsolete

##### Derived terms

* gansaan

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

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

#### Noun

gansa (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜈ᜔ᜐ)
* 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 (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

### Anagrams

* agnas, angas, sanga