bansi

• Hyphenation: ban‧si

bansi

1. largescale flyingfish (Cypselurus oligolepis)

bansì

1. thunderstorm

• bangsi

Borrowed from Malay bangsi, ultimately from Sanskrit वंशी (vaṃśī, “pipe; flute”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /banˈsiʔ/ [bɐnˈsiʔ]
• Rhymes: -iʔ
• Syllabification: ban‧si

bansî (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜈ᜔ᜐᜒ)

1. straw or glass tube (for sipping liquid from any container)

   Synonym: sipsipan

2. (music) native flute (made of reed or rice stalk)

• “bansi” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino‎, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
• “bangsi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 321: “Flauta) Bangſi (pc) de Igleſia”