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bansela

bansela is the alternative spelling of bonsella.

Meaning of bonsella

Noun

bonsella (plural bonsellas)

  1. (South Africa) In a transaction, something extra on the side.
    • A lekker dictionary containing all the bakgat South African words has hit the bookstores. The collection of about 1,500 local words is a bonsella published in the latest edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, "the ultimate authority on South African English".2002 September 9, Peroshni Govender, “Hau, my china, it's bakgat”, in Independent Online, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2018
  2. (South Africa) A tip or gratuity.
  3. (South Africa) A handout.
  4. (South Africa) A bribe.

Forms of bansela

pluralbanselas

Questions about bansela

What is bansela the alternative spelling of?
Bansela is the alternative spelling of bonsella.

Words near bansela in the dictionary

  1. bansalague
  2. bansalaguin
  3. Bansals
  4. Bansarvil
  5. Bansayan
  6. bansela
  7. banselas
  8. Bansha
  9. banshay
  10. banshee
  11. banshee-like

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bansela (page history and authors); bonsella (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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