inga

See also: ingå, Inga, and Iŋgá

English

An inga.

Etymology

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese ingá, borrowed from Old Tupi ingá, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *iŋa.

Noun

inga (plural ingas)

1. (botany) Any of the genus Inga of small tropical trees and shrubs.
   • 1838, The British cyclopaedia, page 605:

     Here are the mimosas, the ingas, the acacias, the maples, the beautiful ailantus, and the fine fruit tree, the mango.

   • 1989, “Lost crops of the Incas”, in U.S, National Research Council, page 279:

     Fruit trees such as ingas are underutilized in reforestation efforts.

Translations

Translations

• Guarayu: inga
• Nheengatu: ingá
• Old Tupi: ingá
• Pirahã: xopóogií
• Portuguese: ingá (pt) m

Further reading

• inga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Inga (Fabaceae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Agin, Agni, Angi, Gain, Gina, NGIA, Nagi, Ngai, a- -ing, ag'in, agin, gain, gain-, gina

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iˈŋaʔ/, [ɪˈŋʌʔ]

Noun

inga

1. mooing or lowing sound of cattle

   Synonym: amba

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɪnɣaː/
• Hyphenation: in‧ga
• Rhymes: -ɪnɣaː

Verb

inga

1. inflection of ingaan:
   1. first-person singular dependent-clause present indicative
   2. (dated or formal) singular dependent-clause present subjunctive

Anagrams

• ga in

Eastern Bontoc

Noun

inga

1. (anatomy) ear

Hungarian

Etymology

From the ing variant of the verb inog (“to wobble”) +‎ -a (archaic participle suffix). Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries. For the ending, compare hinta, csusza.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈiŋɡɒ]
• Hyphenation: in‧ga
• Rhymes: -ɡɒ

Noun

inga (plural ingák)

1. pendulum

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	inga	ingák
accusative	ingát	ingákat
dative	ingának	ingáknak
instrumental	ingával	ingákkal
causal-final	ingáért	ingákért
translative	ingává	ingákká
terminative	ingáig	ingákig
essive-formal	ingaként	ingákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	ingában	ingákban
superessive	ingán	ingákon
adessive	ingánál	ingáknál
illative	ingába	ingákba
sublative	ingára	ingákra
allative	ingához	ingákhoz
elative	ingából	ingákból
delative	ingáról	ingákról
ablative	ingától	ingáktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	ingáé	ingáké
non-attributive possessive – plural	ingáéi	ingákéi

Possessive forms of inga

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	ingám	ingáim
2nd person sing.	ingád	ingáid
3rd person sing.	ingája	ingái
1st person plural	ingánk	ingáink
2nd person plural	ingátok	ingáitok
3rd person plural	ingájuk	ingáik

Derived terms

• ingájú
• ingás
• ingázik

Compound words

• Foucault-inga
• ingaóra

Further reading

• inga in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• inga in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Japanese

Romanization

inga

1. Rōmaji transcription of いんが

Kankanaey

Etymology

Compare Tagalog tainga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔiŋa/ [ˈʔi̞ː.ŋʌ]
• Rhymes: -iŋa
• Syllabification: i‧nga

Noun

ínga

1. (anatomy) ear

   Synonym: keweng

Limos Kalinga

Noun

inga

1. (anatomy) ear

Lubuagan Kalinga

Noun

inga

1. (anatomy) ear

Malay

Verb

inga (Jawi spelling ايڠا)

1. to be agape

Further reading

• “inga” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ingen, from Proto-Celtic *angʷīnā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nṓgʰs.

Originally an ā-stem in Old Irish, reinterpreted as an n-stem in Middle Irish, as the accusative/dative singular ingin, accusative plural ingne, genitive plural ingen and dative plural ingnib could belong to either declension class. The nominative singular inga is thus analogical to that of original n-stems like menma (“understanding”) and goba (“smith”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiŋɡə/

Noun

inga f (genitive ingen)

1. nail (fingernail, toenail)

Descendants

• Irish: ionga
• Manx: ingin
• Scottish Gaelic: ionga

Mutation

Mutation of inga

radical	lenition	nasalization
inga (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-inga

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 ingen (‘nail’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronoun

inga

1. feminine singular of ingen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronoun

inga

1. feminine singular of ingen

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈinˌɡɑː/

Verb

ingā

1. inflection of ingān:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive
   3. singular imperative

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪŋˌa/, [ˈɪŋːˌâ]

• Audio:

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Determiner

inga

1. plural of ingen

Pronoun

inga

1. plural of ingen

Adverb

inga (not comparable)

1. (Finland, dialectal) not

   Synonyms: inte, ej, icke

References

• inga in Ordbok över Finlands svenska folkmål, Institute for the Languages of Finland.

Anagrams

• niga