kansa

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnsɑ/, [ˈkɑ̝ns̠ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑnsɑ
• Syllabification^(key): kan‧sa
• Hyphenation^(key): kan‧sa

From Proto-Finnic *kansa (compare Livvi kanzu, Veps kanz), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *hansō (earlier *hansā, compare Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌽𐍃𐌰 (hansa)).^[1]

kansa

1. people, nation (community of people united by shared culture or ethnicity, or the inhabitants of a country)

   Synonym: kansakunta (see usage notes)

2. people, populace (the inhabitants of a region)
3. people (an undefined mass of people)

   Torilla on tänään paljon kansaa.

   There are a lot of people in the market today.

4. people (the common people)

   Synonym: rahvas (relatively derogatory)

   Hän nousi kansan riveistä politiikan huipulle.

   He rose from the ranks of the common people to the top of politics.

• In the sense "nation, people" the terms kansa and kansakunta are nearly synonymous, although kansa tends to refer to a cultural or ethnic entity and kansakunta to a political entity.

• “kansa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

From kanssa. Compare kans.

kansa (dialectal)

1. alternative form of kanssa

• kasan, sakan, sanka

From Proto-Finnic *kansa, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *hansō. Cognates include Finnish kansa and Veps kanz.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnsɑ/, [ˈkɑns̠]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnsɑ/, [ˈkɑnʒ̥ɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑns, -ɑnsɑ
• Hyphenation: kan‧sa
• Homophone: kans

kansa

1. people, nation
   • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[3], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 3:

     Iƶorat laatiit kansan, kumpa keelen poolest kuuluu läns-fenniläisiin kansoin gruppaa ja sil viisii i iƶoroin keeli kuuluu läns-fenniläisee keelisisteemaa.

     The Ingrians make up a people, that based on their language belongs to the group of Finnic peoples and as such the language of Ingrians also belongs to the Finnic language family.

• rahvas

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 132
• Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014), Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку‎^[4], →ISBN, page 53

kansa

1. Rōmaji transcription of かんさ

Cognate to Finnish kanssa.

kansa

1. also

Borrowed from English cancer.

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kansa class IX (plural kansa class X)

1. cancer (disease of uncontrolled cellular proliferation)

• saratani

Borrowed from Spanish cansar, from Latin campsāre, from Ancient Greek κάμψαι (kámpsai).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kanˈsa/ [kɐn̪ˈsa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: kan‧sa

kansá (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜈ᜔ᜐ)

1. fatigue; tiredness; exhaustion; weariness

   Synonyms: pata, pagod, hapo, pagal

The word is not usually found in old Tagalog dictionaries which suggests this word may have been borrowed from a foreign language. Compare Sanskrit कंस (kaṃsa, “bell-metal; metal vessel”), Indonesian kangsa (“bronze”) / gangsa (“brass; bell-metal”), Balinese gangsa (“bronze”), and Javanese ꦒꦁꦱ (gangsa, “bronze”). See also gangsa (“brass gong”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kanˈsa/ [kɐn̪ˈsa], /ˈkansa/ [ˈkan̪.sɐ]
• Rhymes: -a, -ansa
• Syllabification: kan‧sa

kansá or kansa (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜈ᜔ᜐ) (rare)

1. metal

   Synonym: metal

• “kansa”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “kansa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Santos, Vito C. (1978), Vicassan's Pilipino-English Dictionary, Revised edition (overall work in Tagalog and English), With an Introduction by Teodoro A. Agoncillo, Metro Manila: National Book Store, →ISBN, page 301
• Institute of National Language (Philippines) (1961), Selected Vocabulary Lists: Arithmetical, Biological, Parliamentary, Etc.‎^[5] (in Tagalog), Bureau of Print.

Borrowed from English cancer, from Latin cancer (“crab”), a calque of Ancient Greek καρκίνος (karkínos, “crab; ulcer; cancer”) (possibly cognate), applied to cancerous tumors because the enlarged veins resembled the legs of a crab.

kansa class 9 (plural kansa class 10)

2. (medicine, oncology, pathology) cancer

• Used in the Tumbuka Wikipedia page for Chakufwa Chihana in the section headed Nyifwa. The use of "ya" afterwards indicates that this noun is class 9, which is to be expected as in Chichewa, loan words often go into class 9.