ganta

From Spanish ganta, from Cebuano gantang, from Malay gantang. Doublet of gantang.

ganta (plural gantas)

1. (Philippines, historical) A unit of volume equivalent to eight chupas.

• tanga

Inherited from Latin ganta.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡan.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈɡan.ta]

ganta f (plural gantes)

1. stork

   Synonym: cigonya

• “ganta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

ganta

1. third-person singular past historic of ganter

• tanga

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰans-. Cognate with Latin ānser.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡan.ta/, [ˈɡän̪t̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡan.ta/, [ˈɡän̪t̪ä]

ganta f (genitive gantae); first declension

1. a goose of Germany

First-declension noun.

• Catalan: ganta

• “ganta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ganta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from Cebuano gantang, from Malay gantang.

ganta f (plural gantas)

1. (Philippines, historical) a ganta

• → English: ganta
• → Tagalog: ganta

• “ganta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from Spanish ganta, from Cebuano gantang, from Malay gantang.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɡanta/ [ˈɡan.tɐ]
• Rhymes: -anta
• Syllabification: gan‧ta

ganta (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜈ᜔ᜆ)

1. ganta (unit of grain measure of approximately three liters)

   Synonym: salop

• gantang
• gatang
• tsupa

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɡanˈta/ [ɡɐnˈta]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: gan‧ta

gantá (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜈ᜔ᜆ)

1. divided and cut into minute parts

• tadtad
• durog

ganta

1. ganta (twenty-five of which makes one kaban)