bansa

bansa

Aukan

Noun

bansa

1. Alternative spelling of bánsa

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Iban

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ban.sa/

Noun

bansa

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

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Mansaka

Etymology

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

Noun

bansa

1. reputation

Conjunction

bansa

1. unless

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Maranao

Etymology

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

Noun

bansa

1. rank, worth

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Sãotomense

FWOTD – 15 September 2015

Etymology 1

From Kongo mbasa, plural of lubasa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbãsa/

Noun

bansa

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

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bãˈsa/

Noun

bansa

1. rib (curved bone extending from the spine)

References

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

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Tagalog

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bansâ or bansá (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜈ᜔ᜐ)

1. nation

   Synonyms: nasyon, bayan

2. country

Derived terms

• Batasang Pambansa
• isabansa
• kabansaan
• magsabansa
• makabansa
• Mga Bansang Pinagbuklod
• Mga Nagkakaisang Bansa
• pagkabansa
• pagkakasabansa
• pagsasabansa
• pakikipamansaan
• pamansaan
• pambansa
• pambansa-bansa
• pambansang seguridad
• wikang pambansa

 

References

1. Morrow, Paul (2017), “The Filipino language that might have been (Third of a three-part series)”, in Canadian Filipino Net‎