tanso
See also: tần số
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tanˈsoʔ/ [tan̪ˈsoʔ]
- Hyphenation: tan‧so
Noun
tansô (Basahan spelling ᜆᜈ᜔ᜐᜓ)
See also
Cuyunon
Noun
tanso
Japanese
Romanization
tanso
Portuguese
Etymology
Unknown.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɐ̃.su/
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃su
- Hyphenation: tan‧so
Noun
tanso m (plural tansos, feminine tansa, feminine plural tansas)
- (colloquial) fool, idiot
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiota
- (colloquial) sucker
- 2016 November 16, Leonete Botelho, ““As pessoas votam nos palhaços porque se revêem neles””, in Público[2]:
- 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…
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Adjective
tanso (feminine tansa, masculine plural tansos, feminine plural tansas, comparable)
- (colloquial) silly, dumb, stupid
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiota
- (colloquial) gullible
Sambali
Noun
tansô
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- tangso — obsolete
Etymology
Possibly from Hokkien 銅索 / 铜索 (tâng soh, “copper wire”)[1] or Hokkien 銅線 / 铜线 (tâng-sòaⁿ, “copper wire”).[2] Compare Kapampangan tangsu, Remontado Agta tansu, and Yogad tansu.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /tanˈsoʔ/ [t̪ɐn̪ˈsoʔ]
- Rhymes: -oʔ
- Syllabification: tan‧so
Noun
tansô (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜈ᜔ᜐᜓ)
- copper
- Synonym: kobre
- (colloquial) swindling; defrauding
- Synonyms: gantso, paggantso, pagkagantso, panununba
- (loosely) bronze; brass
- Synonyms: bronse, tansong pula, tansong dilaw
- act of removing something on a hook
Derived terms
- manananso
- mananso
- panananso
- taeng-tanso
- tansong dilaw
- tansong pula
- tansuin
See also
Adjective
tansô (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜈ᜔ᜐᜓ)
- made of copper
- removed from a hook
- (colloquial) false; fake
- Synonyms: peke, huwad, espuryo, palsipikado
References
- ^ Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980) “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics, volume B, number 71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 144
- ^ Lim, Vicente (1941) Chinese-English-Tagalog-Spanish Business conversation and social contact with Amoy pronunciation[1], Manila: Poc Bon Book Co., page 103
Further reading
- “tanso”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018