tinga

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Tinga (dish)

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From Spanish tinga.

tinga (uncountable)

1. A Mexican dish made with shredded beef or chicken in a red chili sauce.

• Giant, Ngāti, TA'ing, TAing, Taing, anti-g, giant, tagin, tangi, tiang

tinga

1. inflection of tinguir:
   1. first-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tiŋah, from Proto-Austronesian *CiŋaS.

tinga

1. shred, splinter

   tinga kayu ― wood splinter

2. food stuck between teeth

tinga

1. inflection of tingere:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• tangi, tigna

tinga

1. (anatomy) ear

• tingene

tinga m

1. definite plural of ting

tinga n

1. definite plural of ting

From Old Norse þinga, from Proto-Germanic *þingōną.

• tinge (e- and split infinitives)

tinga (present tense tingar, past tense tinga, past participle tinga, passive infinitive tingast, present participle tingande, imperative tinga/ting)

1. (transitive) to reserve; to place an order on

   Synonym: bestille

2. to subscribe (to a publication)

   Synonym: abonnere

3. to negotiate

• tinga på
• tingar
• tinging

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• tingi (non-standard since 2012)

tinga m

1. definite plural of ting

tinga n

1. definite plural of ting

• “tinga” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• ganti, tangi, natig

• IPA^(key): /ˈtĩ.ŋa/
• Rhymes: -ĩŋa
• Hyphenation: ti‧nga

From ting (“white”, adjective) +‎ -a.^[1]

tinga (possessable)

1. white
2. whiteness
3. white thing
   • 1687, João Filipe Bettendorff, “Dialogo II”, in Compendio da Doutrina Christãa Na lingua Portugueza, e Brasilica [Compendium of the Christian Doctrine in the Portuguese and Brasílica Language] (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Da Communhão, page 84, column 2; republished as José Mariano da Conceição Vellozo, editor, Lisbon: Offic. de Simão Thaddeo Ferreira, 1800:

     Mbäétepe coé tinga acẽ remipiâca, Abaré Hostia rupíreme, acẽ iurupebé imohdebme: nã miape ruã?

     [Mba'etepe kûé tinga asé remiepîaka, abaré hóstia rupireme, asé îurupe bé i mondebeme: na miapé ruã?]

     But what is that white thing that is seen, when the priest rises the host, and when put in people's mouths: isn't it bread?

4. lightness (the relative whiteness or transparency of a colour)

• Nheengatu: tinga

tinga (possessable)

1. nausea (feeling of illness or discomfort in the digestive system)
2. nauseous thing (something that causes nausea)

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tinga

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tinga f (plural tingas)

1. a typical Mexican dish made with shredded meat

• English: pulled pork (US)

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-tinga (infinitive kutinga)

1. to swing, to sway

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tiŋah (“food particles caught between the teeth”) (cf. Ivatan tinya, Ilocano ingat, Kapampangan tinga, Cebuano tinga, and Tausug tinga), from Proto-Austronesian *CiŋaS (cf. Amis tingas, Bunun cingas, and Sakizaya tingas).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /tiˈŋa/
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ti‧nga

tingá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜒᜅ)

1. bits of food or foreign matter lodged between the teeth

   Synonym: ngima

2. (by extension) charge of bullet in a gun (ready for the firing pin)

   Synonym: karga

• “tinga”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “tinga”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• gitna, tinag, ingat, antig, ganti, tangi, ating