banga

Atong (India)

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l/b-ŋa (“five”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baŋa/

Numeral

banga (Bengali script বাঙা)

1. five

Synonyms

• paip
• panch

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ba‧nga
• IPA^(key): /baˈŋaʔ/,

Adjective

bangâ

1. divided; halved; bisected

Derived terms

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈŋa/, (sense: bored; to be bored)

• IPA^(key): /baˈŋaʔ/, (senses "incompetent in a specific field"; "kind of water jug")
• Hyphenation: ba‧nga
• Rhymes: -a
• Rhymes: -aʔ

Etymology 1

Adjective

bangá (Badlit spelling ᜊᜅ)

1. bored

Verb

bangá (Badlit spelling ᜊᜅ)

1. to be bored; to be fed up

Derived terms

See also

• laay (“boring”)

Etymology 2

Adjective

bangâ (Badlit spelling ᜊᜅ)

1. incompetent or untalented in a specific area

Noun

bangâ (Badlit spelling ᜊᜅ)

1. palooka; washout

Etymology 3

Compare Hiligaynon banga.

Noun

bangâ (Badlit spelling ᜊᜅ)

1. water jug or jar with
2. a dwarf variety of coconut

Anagrams

• abang, baang, banag

Chichewa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɓa.ᵑɡa/

Noun

banga class 5 (plural maŵanga class 6)

1. spot (as on a fabric, or on skin)

Dupaningan Agta

Noun

banga

1. cooking pot

Dutch

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From "to bang"?”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑŋ.ɡaː/
• Hyphenation: ban‧ga

Noun

banga f (plural banga's)

1. (slang, derogatory, offensive, Netherlands) slut (promiscuous woman)

Derived terms

• bangalijst

Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bàn.ɡáː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

Noun

bàngā f (plural bangunā̀, possessed form bàngar̃)

1. A small, bowl-shaped drum, played with fingers.

Hiligaynon

Noun

bangâ

1. water jar
2. idiot, fool, simpleton

Verb

bangá

1. like, enjoy

Ibaloi

Noun

banga

1. clayen pot

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse banga (“to pound, hammer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpauŋka/
• Rhymes: -auŋka

Verb

banga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative bangaði, supine bangað)

1. (dated) to bang, to pound, to hammer

   Synonyms: berja, klappa, banka, hamra

Conjugation

Derived terms

• bang (“banging, pounding”)

Kankanaey

Noun

banga

1. clayen pot

Karao

Noun

banga

1. clayen pot
2. soot (from a clayen pot)

Kayapa Kallahan

Noun

banga

1. clayen pot

Kayardild

Noun

banga

1. turtle

Kituba

Verb

banga

1. to fear

Limos Kalinga

Noun

banga

1. earthen pot

Lingala

Verb

banga

1. to fear

Lithuanian

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian banga (“wave; crowd; cloud”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bangā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to bend”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

bangà f (plural bañgos) stress pattern 4

1. wave, billow

Declension

Maranao

Noun

banga

1. palm tree

Masbatenyo

Noun

bangâ

1. clayen jar

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bangōną (“to pound, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰen- (“to beat, injure”). Cognate with Old High German bangōn (“to bang, beat”).

Verb

banga

1. to bang, pound, hammer

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Danish: banke
  • → Faroese: banka
  • → Icelandic: banka
• Faroese: banga
• Icelandic: banga
• Norwegian Bokmål: banke
• Norwegian Nynorsk: banka, banke
• Old Swedish: bånga
  • Swedish: banka
• Elfdalian: baunka
• Gutnish: banke
• →? Middle English: *bangen
  • English: bang
  • Scots: bang, bung

References

• “banga”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Sambali

Noun

bangâ

1. earthen jar

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from a west African language, possibly Urhobo; see Banga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbanɡa/
• Rhymes: -anɡa
• Syllabification: ban‧ga

Noun

banga m (plural bangas)

1. a kind of soup

Swazi

Verb

-banga

1. to quarrel, to fight over

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Swedish

Verb

banga (present bangar, preterite bangade, supine bangat, imperative banga)

1. (colloquial) to pass on (something) (decline or skip)

   – Kommer du på festen? – Nä, jag är lite trött, så jag tror jag bangar.

   – Are you coming to the party? – Nah, I'm a bit tired, so I think I'll pass

Conjugation

References

• banga in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• banga in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Tagalog

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baŋa (“palm sp.”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaŋaʔ/,
• Hyphenation: ba‧nga

Noun

bangà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜅ)

1. fan palm

   Synonym: palmabraba

Etymology 2

From Proto-Philippine *baŋaq (“earthen water jar”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈŋaʔ/,
• Hyphenation: ba‧nga

Noun

bangâ (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜅ)

1. native earthen jar with a narrow mouth for holding water

Related terms

See also

Further reading

• “banga”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Ternate

Etymology

Cognate with Tabaru bongana (“forest”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.ŋa/

Noun

banga

1. forest

Descendants

• → Sawai: banga

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Tidore

Noun

banga

1. forest

Waray-Waray

Noun

bangâ

1. earthen jar

Xhosa

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

-banga

1. to cause

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Zulu

Verb

-banga

1. (transitive) to cause, to make, to produce, to bring about

Inflection

References

• C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “ɓanga”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “ɓanga (8.8-9)”