inga

See also: ingå, Inga, and Iŋgá

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

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, National Research Council (U.S.), Lost crops of the Incas (page 279)

     Fruit trees such as ingas are underutilized in reforestation efforts.

See also

• 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

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Cebuano

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iˈŋaʔ/, [ɪˈŋʌʔ]

Noun

inga

1. mooing or lowing sound of cattle

Synonyms

• amba

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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

Verb

inga

1. first-person singular present indicative of ingaan (when using a subclause)
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of ingaan (when using a subclause)

Anagrams

• ga in

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Hungarian

Etymology

From the ing variant of the verb inog (“to wobble”) +‎ -a (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

• ingázik

Further reading

• inga in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’An Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.

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Japanese

Romanization

inga

1. Rōmaji transcription of いんが

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Limos Kalinga

Noun

inga

1. (anatomy) ear

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Lubuagan Kalinga

Noun

inga

1. (anatomy) ear

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Malay

Verb

inga

1. to be agape

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Norwegian Bokmål

Pronoun

inga

1. feminine singular of ingen

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronoun

inga

1. feminine singular of ingen

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ɪŋa/

• 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