tanso

tanso

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Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tan‧so
• IPA^(key): /tanˈsoʔ/

Noun

tansô

1. brass

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Cuyunon

Noun

tanso

1. copper

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Japanese

Romanization

tanso

1. Rōmaji transcription of たんそ

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɐ̃.su/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃su
• Hyphenation: tan‧so

Noun

tanso m (plural tansos)

1. (colloquial) fool, idiot

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiota

2. (colloquial) sucker
   • 2016 November 16, Leonete Botelho, ““As pessoas votam nos palhaços porque se revêem neles””, in Público‎:

     É exactamente na percepção que as pessoas estão a formar de que não serve de nada votar porque há um conjunto de regras não escritas que está completamente enraizado e que faz com que as instituições não cumpram o seu papel. E o eleitor sente que é pouco mais que um tanso…

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

Adjective

tanso (feminine tansa, masculine plural tansos, feminine plural tansas, comparable)

1. (colloquial) silly, dumb, stupid

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiota

2. (colloquial) gullible

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Sambali

Noun

tansô

1. copper; brass

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Tagalog

Alternative forms

• tangso – obsolete

Etymology

Possibly from Hokkien 銅索 (tâng-soh, “copper wire”)[1] or 銅線 (tâng-sòaⁿ, “copper wire”).[2] Compare Kapampangan tangsu, Remontado Agta tansu, and Yogad tansu.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tan‧so
• IPA^(key): /tanˈsoʔ/, [tɐnˈsoʔ]

Noun

tansô

1. copper

   Synonym: kobre

2. (colloquial) swindling; defrauding

   Synonyms: gantso, paggantso, pagkagantso, panununba

3. (in general) bronze; brass

   Synonyms: bronse, tansong pula, tansong dilaw

4. act of removing something on a hook

Derived terms

• manananso
• mananso
• panananso
• taeng-tanso
• tansong dilaw
• tansong pula
• tansuin

 

See also

• tumbaga

Adjective

tansô

1. made of copper
2. removed from a hook

References

1. Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980), “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics‎ (PDF), volume B, issue 71, Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 144
2. Lim, Vicente (1941) Chinese-English-Tagalog-Spanish Business conversation and social contact with Amoy pronunciation‎, Manila: Poc Bon Book Co., page 103