inga

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See also: ingå, Inga, and Iŋgá

English

An inga.

Etymology

From Old Tupi in-gá (“soaked”) via Portuguese.

Noun

inga (plural ingas)

  1. (botany) Any of the genus Inga of small tropical trees and shrubs.
    • 1838, The British cyclopaedia, page 605:
      Here are the mimosas, the ingas, the acacias, the maples, the beautiful ailantus, and the fine fruit tree, the mango.
    • 1989, “Lost crops of the Incas”, in U.S, National Research Council, page 279:
      Fruit trees such as ingas are underutilized in reforestation efforts.

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Cebuano

Pronunciation

Noun

inga

  1. mooing or lowing sound of cattle
    Synonym: amba

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Audio(file)
  • IPA(key): /ˈɪnɣaː/
  • Hyphenation: in‧ga
  • Rhymes: -ɪnɣaː

Verb

inga

  1. inflection of ingaan:
    1. first-person singular dependent-clause present indicative
    2. (dated or formal) singular dependent-clause present subjunctive

Anagrams

Eastern Bontoc

Noun

inga

  1. (anatomy) ear

Hungarian

Etymology

From the ing variant of the verb inog (“to wobble”) +‎ -a (archaic participle suffix). Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries. For the ending, compare hinta, csusza.

Pronunciation

Noun

inga (plural ingák)

  1. pendulum

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative inga ingák
accusative ingát ingákat
dative ingának ingáknak
instrumental ingával ingákkal
causal-final ingáért ingákért
translative ingává ingákká
terminative ingáig ingákig
essive-formal ingaként ingákként
essive-modal — —
inessive ingában ingákban
superessive ingán ingákon
adessive ingánál ingáknál
illative ingába ingákba
sublative ingára ingákra
allative ingához ingákhoz
elative ingából ingákból
delative ingáról ingákról
ablative ingától ingáktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		ingáé ingáké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		ingáéi ingákéi
Possessive forms of inga
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. ingám ingáim
2nd person sing. ingád ingáid
3rd person sing. ingája ingái
1st person plural ingánk ingáink
2nd person plural ingátok ingáitok
3rd person plural ingájuk ingáik

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References

  1. ^ inga in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

  • inga in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Japanese

Romanization

inga

  1. Rōmaji transcription of いんが

Limos Kalinga

Noun

inga

  1. (anatomy) ear

Lubuagan Kalinga

Noun

inga

  1. (anatomy) ear

Malay

Verb

inga (Jawi spelling ايڠا)

  1. to be agape

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronoun

inga

  1. feminine singular of ingen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronoun

inga

  1. feminine singular of ingen

Swedish

Pronunciation

Determiner

inga

  1. plural of ingen

Pronoun

inga

  1. plural of ingen

Adverb

inga (not comparable)

  1. (Finland, dialectal) not
    Synonyms: inte, ej, icke

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