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See also: Ganza and ganzá

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish gansa, feminine form of ganso (goose).

Alternative forms

Noun

ganza (plural ganzas)

  1. A kind of wild goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world.

Etymology 2

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “H-J says: The word is evidently Sanskrit kaṉsa, 'bell-metal,' whence Malay gangsa, which last is probably the word which travellers picked up.”

Alternative forms

Noun

ganza (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) A metal, possibly lead or an alloy, formerly used as an inferior currency in Pegu.
References

Anagrams

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old High German ganz (whole, sound, healthy, complete), from Proto-West Germanic *gant (whole, healthy; all, complete).

Adverb

ganza

  1. (Carcoforo) always

References

Italian

Adjective

ganza

  1. feminine singular of ganzo

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English ganja.

Pronunciation

Noun

ganza f (plural ganzas)

  1. (colloquial) ganja; joint
  2. (colloquial, by extension) trip; high
    Synonyms: moca, pedrada

Etymology 2

Verb

ganza

  1. inflection of ganzar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative