nansa

Catalan

Etymology

Conflation of Latin ānsa and Latin nassa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈnan.sə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈnan.sa]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ansa

Noun

nansa f (plural nanses)

1. handle, loop, grip
   • 2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 5, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:

     Cadascú va prendre la caixa de municions per una de les nanses laterals.

     Each took the box of munitions by one of the handles on the side.

2. fish trap
3. (surgery) snare (looped instrument for removing polyps, etc.)

Derived terms

• nansa intestinal
• nansaire
• nansat
• nanser
• nanset

Further reading

• “nansa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “nansa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “nansa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “nansa”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnansa/ [ˈnãn.sa]
• Rhymes: -ansa
• Syllabification: nan‧sa

Noun

nansa f (plural nansas)

1. fish trap
2. small fishpond

   Synonym: pecina (archaic)

Further reading

• “nansa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025