ganza

Borrowed from Spanish gansa, ganso (“goose”).

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.

• gansa

ganza (uncountable)

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

• gangsa, gansa, ganse

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “ganza”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

• Gazan

• geng, génh

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

ganza

1. (Carcoforo) always

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

ganza

1. feminine singular of ganzo

Borrowed from English ganja.

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃zɐ
• Hyphenation: gan‧za

ganza f (plural ganzas)

1. (colloquial) ganja; joint
2. (colloquial, by extension) trip; high

   Synonyms: moca, pedrada

ganza

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