ngas

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See also: ngás and ŋas

English

Noun

ngas

  1. plural of nga

Anagrams

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *en-gatja, causative of *en-gānja (modern ngaj).[1] More at ngah.

Verb

ngas (aorist ngava, participle ngarë) (transitive)

  1. (intransitive) to run
    Synonyms: vrapoj, rend, ngarend
  2. to touch something with a hand, foot or object
    Synonym: prek
  3. (figurative) to harass, annoy, pick on, tease
    Synonyms: trazoj, ngacmoj, thumboj, cyt
  4. (colloquial, chiefly in the negative) to interact, touch, eat, do
    nuk e ngau gjellën fare ― he didn't eat the food at all
  5. (third person, colloquial) to be afflicted/annoyed by disease
    e nget kolla ― he's troubled by a cough
  6. to push an animal to work (horse, ox)
  7. (regional) to plough
    Synonym: lëroj
  8. to drive (car)
    Synonym: vozis
  9. (colloquial) to work on something
    Synonym: prek
  10. (colloquial) to take part in something, to apprentice
    Synonym: ndjek
  11. to put/set in motion, drift with swiftness
  12. (regional) to sharpen, whet
    Synonym: mpreh
  13. (southern Tosk, Frashër) to attack
    Synonym: sulmoj
  14. (archaic) to tempt
    Synonym: josh

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “ngas”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 293

Further reading

  • “ngas”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎ (in Albanian), 1980
  • “ngas”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • Mann, S. E. (1948) “ngas”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 318

Irish

Noun

ngas m

  1. Eclipsed form of gas.

Palauan

Etymology

From Pre-Palauan *ŋ acu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aʀuhu.

Noun

ngas

  1. ironwood

References

  • ngas in Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary, at tekinged.com.
  • ngas in Palauan-English Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
  • ngas in Lewis S. Josephs, Edwin G. McManus, Masa-aki Emesiochel (1977) Palauan-English Dictionary, University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 209.
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