gantso

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish gancho.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈɡant͡ʃo/ [ˈɡan̪.t͡ʃo]
    • IPA(key): (no palatal assimilation) /ˈɡantso/ [ˈɡan̪.t͡so]
  • Rhymes: -ant͡ʃo, (no palatal assimilation) -antso
  • Syllabification: gan‧tso

Noun

gantso (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜈ᜔ᜆ᜔ᜐᜓ)

  1. hook
    Synonyms: kawit, kalawit
  2. act of hooking (to pick up, get, or take something)
    Synonyms: pagkalawit, pagkawit, paggantso
  3. cheating; swindle; defrauding
    Synonyms: panggagantso, panunuba, pandaraya, tanso, panananso

Derived terms

Further reading

Anagrams

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.