miga

Cebuano

Etymology

Initial clipping of amiga.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mi‧ga

Noun

miga

1. a female friend
2. an address to a female friend; a friendly placeholder name for a person one does not know

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin mīca (“crumb”), from Proto-Italic *smīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *smeyg- (“small, thin, delicate”). Compare the borrowed doublet mica. Cognate with Portuguese miga and Spanish miga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiɣa̝/

Noun

miga f (plural migas)

1. crumb (small piece)

   Synonyms: migalla, fragulla, faragulla, miaxón, molo, mincalla, magoto

2. crumb (the soft internal portion of bread)

   Synonyms: miolo, rafa

3. a trifle; a little

   Synonyms: migalla, lisca, nisquiño, chinca

   Cunha miguiña de sorte aínda chegaremos a tempo. ― With a little luck we'll be arriving just in time.

4. a little time

   Marchamos daquí a unha miga. ― We are leaving in a moment.

Derived terms

• migalla
• migar
• nin miga

References

• “miga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “miga” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “miga” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2

Verb

miga

1. inflection of migar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪːɣa/

  Rhymes: -ɪːɣa

Noun

miga f (genitive singular migu, nominative plural migur)

1. (vulgar) the act of pissing
2. (vulgar) piss, urine

Declension

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• mige (e and split infinitives)

Etymology

From Old Norse míga, from Proto-Germanic *mīganą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃méyǵʰeti, from the root *h₃meyǵʰ- (“to urinate”).

Verb

miga (present tense mig, past tense meig, supine mige, past participle migen, present participle migande, imperative mig)

1. (transitive, intransitive, mildly vulgar) to piss

   Synonyms: urinera, lata vatn, pissa, tissa

Derived terms

• mighus (“horse foreskin”)

Noun

miga n

1. definite plural of mig

References

• “miga” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit मृग (mṛga, “wild beast”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mr̥gás.

Noun

miga m

1. beast
2. quadruped
3. deer

Declension

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -iɡa
• Syllabification: mi‧ga

Verb

miga

1. third-person singular present of migać

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mi‧ga

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese miga, from Latin mīca (“crumb”), from Proto-Italic *smīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *smeyg- (“small, thin, delicate”). Compare the borrowed doublet mica.

Noun

miga f (plural migas)

1. crumb (small piece of bread, biscuit, cake, etc)

   Synonym: migalha

2. (in the plural, cooking) a traditional Iberian dish consisting of leftover bread and various ingredients

Etymology 2

Clipping of amiga (“female friend”).

Noun

miga f (plural migas)

1. (endearing) female friend; used especially by women

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

miga (Cyrillic spelling мига)

1. genitive singular of mig

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiɡa/

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• Rhymes: -iɡa
• Syllabification: mi‧ga

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish miga, from Latin mīca (“crumb”), from Proto-Italic *smīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *smeyg- (“small, thin, delicate”). Compare the borrowed doublet mica. Cognate with English mica.

Noun

miga f (plural migas)

1. crumb (small piece which breaks off from baked food)

   Synonym: migaja

2. essence, core (most significant feature of something)
3. crumb, bit (small amount)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

miga

1. inflection of migar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “miga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014