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danga

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See also: dãngã and dänga

Bambara

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Noun

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danga

  1. a curse

Verb

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danga

  1. (transitive) to curse

Bariai

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Noun

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danga

  1. thing

References

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Hausa

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Etymology

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Compare Kanuri dángá (cornstalk fence), Chadian Arabic دنقاي (dangāy, prison), Lame daŋgai (prison), Dangaléat dyegruwa (stone wall), Sidamo danqara (bar).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /dán.ɡáː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [dáŋ.ɡáː]

Noun

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dangā f (plural dangōgī, possessed form dangar̃)

  1. cornstalk fence
    Synonym: darni

Juba Arabic

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Etymology

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Borrowed from a local language. Compare Bari daŋ, Dinka dhaŋ, Southwestern Dinka dhaŋ.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdaŋa/, [ˈda.ŋa]

Noun

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danga

  1. bow

References

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  • Ian Smith, Morris Timothy Ama (1985) A Dictionary of Juba Arabic & English[1], 1st edition, Juba: The Committee of The Juba Cheshire Home and Centre for Handicapped Children, page 129

Latvian

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Etymology

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Noun

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danga f (4th declension)

  1. (dialectal) corner

Declension

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This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

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References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 114

Lithuanian

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Etymology

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Noun

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dangà f (plural dañgos) stress pattern 4 [2]

  1. clothes
  2. something covering another thing; cover[3]
    sniẽgo dangà[2] - lying snow

Declension

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Declension of dangà
singular
(vienaskaita)
plural
(daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) dangà dañgos
genitive (kilmininkas) dangõs dangų̃
dative (naudininkas) dañgai dangóms
accusative (galininkas) dañgą dangàs
instrumental (įnagininkas) dangà dangomi̇̀s
locative (vietininkas) dangojè dangosè
vocative (šauksmininkas) dañga dañgos

Synonyms

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Nouns related to danga

(Verb)

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 114
  2. 2.0 2.1 “danga” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  3. ^ “danga” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN

Minangkabau

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayic *dəŋər, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dəŋəʀ, from Proto-Austronesian *dəŋəʀ.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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danga

  1. to hear, to listen

Further reading

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  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*deŋeR”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish تمغا (damga), from Proto-Common Turkic *tamga.

Noun

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danga f (plural dangale)

  1. brand (on horses or cows)

Declension

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Declension of danga
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative danga dangaua dangale dangalele
genitive-dative dangale dangalei dangale dangalelor
vocative danga dangalelor

Silesian

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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danga f

  1. Alternative form of dynga

Further reading

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  • Barbara Podgórska, Adam Podgóski (2008) “danga”, in Słownik gwar śląskich [A dictionary of Silesian lects], Katowice: Wydawnictwo KOS, →ISBN, page 67