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Basque
Etymology
Reduplication of zanga (“gulp”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most dialects) /s̻anɡa s̻anɡa/
- IPA(key): (Biscayan) /s̺anɡa s̺anɡa/
- Hyphenation: zan‧ga-zan‧ga
Ideophone
zanga-zanga
- drinking noisily
1931, Toribio Alzaga, Burruntziya (Auspoa Literatura; 29), 2nd edition, Auspoa, published 1963, page 40:¿Baxo erdiya ayek? ¡Bai zera! Upela oso-osorik atzaparretan artu ta ¡zanga, zanga! ustu arte.- [Baxo erdia aiek? Bai zera! Upela oso-osorik atzaparretan artu ta zanga-zanga ustu arte.]
- Half a glass? No way! They would grab the whole barrel with their claws, and drink from it noisily until it was empty.
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