bansa

bansa

1. Alternative spelling of bánsa

From Malay bangsa, from Sanskrit वंश (vaṃśá, “offspring, lineage, collection”).

• IPA^(key): /ban.sa/

bansa

1. race; ethnicity
2. species
3. sort; kind
4. class; rank; caste

From Malay bangsa, from Sanskrit वंश (vaṃśá, “offspring, lineage”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wanćás (“ceiling beam”).

bansa

1. reputation

bansa

1. unless

From Malay bangsa, from Sanskrit वंश (vaṃśá, “offspring, lineage”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wanćás (“ceiling beam”).

bansa

1. rank, worth

From Kongo mbasa, plural of lubasa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbãsa/

bansa

1. the stem of a palm frond
2. a hook made with the stem of a palm frond

From Kongo lubanji. Compare Aukan bánsa, Saramaccan bandya, Kwinti bandya.

• IPA^(key): /bãˈsa/

bansa

1. rib (curved bone extending from the spine)

• “bansa” in Carlos de Sousa Ferreira Fontes, Estudo do léxico do são-tomense com dicionário (2007).

Borrowed from Malay bangsa, from Sanskrit वंश (vaṃśá, “offspring, lineage, collection”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *wanćás (“ceiling beam”). Introduced by Eusebio T. Daluz in the early 20th century[1] as counterpart to the Spanish nación (“nation”), as it was deemed that there was no native Tagalog word that adequately expressed the concept, since the nearest counterpart, bayan, had other meanings that deviate from the modern concept of nationhood, as it is also used to refer to a town or a municipality, similar to Spanish pueblo.

• Hyphenation: ban‧sa
• IPA^(key): /banˈsaʔ/, [bɐnˈsaʔ]
• IPA^(key): /banˈsa/, [bɐnˈsa]

bansâ or bansá (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜈ᜔ᜐ)

1. nation

   Synonyms: nasyon, bayan

2. country