lenga
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Mapudungun lenga, via Spanish.
Noun
[edit]lenga (plural lengas)
- A deciduous tree native to the southern Andes, taxonomic name Nothofagus pumilio.
Translations
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Chichewa
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Tumbuka -lenga (“to create”), Sena -lenga (“to create”) Kunda -lenga (“to create”) and Nyungwe -lenga (“to create”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]-lenga (infinitive kulénga)
- to create
Derived terms
[edit]- Nominal derivations:
- mlengalenga (“universe”)
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Malay lenga (“sesame”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ləŋa.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ləˈŋa/ [ləˈŋa]
- Rhymes: -a
- Syllabification: le‧nga
Noun
[edit]lênga (plural lenga-lenga)
Further reading
[edit]- “lenga”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Javanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]lenga
- romanization of ꦊꦔ
Kituba
[edit]Verb
[edit]lenga
- to tremble
Kunda
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Chichewa -lenga (“to create”), Tumbuka -lenga (“to create”), Sena -lenga (“to create”) Nyungwe -lenga (“to create”).
Verb
[edit]-lenga
- to create
References
[edit]- Bible Society of Zimbabwe, Bhaibheri reChikunda, Kuyamba 1:1
Lenje
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Chichewa -lenga (“to create”), Tumbuka -lenga (“to create”), Sena -lenga (“to create”), Nyungwe -lenga (“to create”) and Kunda -lenga (“to create”).
Verb
[edit]-lenga
- to create
- to invent
- to devise
- to bring about
References
[edit]- Bible Society of Zambia, Lenje Bible with Deutercanon, 2003 - Matalikilo 1
- Arthur Cornwallis Madan, M.A. (1908), Lenje Handbook: A Short Introduction to the Lenje Dialect Spoken in North-West Rhodesia[1], Oxford Clarendon Press, page 140
Lingala
[edit]Verb
[edit]-lenga (infinitive kolenga)
Luba-Kasai
[edit]Adjective
[edit]-lenga
Malay
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ləŋa. Cognate with Tagalog linga, Cebuano lunga, Rade ênga and Tetum lena. Compare also Proto-Tai *r.ŋaːᴬ (“sesame”) (whence Thai งา (ngaa)) and Proto-Mon-Khmer *lŋaaʔ ~ *lŋawʔ (“sesame”) (whence Khmer ល្ង (lngɔɔ)).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lenga (Jawi spelling لڠا or ليڠا, plural lenga-lenga or lenga2)
Derived terms
[edit]Irregular affixed derivations, other derivations and compound words:
Descendants
[edit]- Indonesian: lenga
Further reading
[edit]- "lenga" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
Maranao
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ləŋa.
Noun
[edit]lenga
Nyungwe
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Chichewa -lenga (“to create”), Tumbuka -lenga (“to create”), Sena -lenga (“to create”) and Kunda -lenga (“to create”).
Verb
[edit]-lenga
- to create
Derived terms
[edit]- -lengedwa (“to be created”)
Occitan
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Occitan lengua, from Latin lingua, from Old Latin dingua, from Proto-Italic *denɣwā, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lenga f (plural lengas)
Related terms
[edit]Papiamentu
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Etymology
[edit]From Spanish lengua and Portuguese língua and Kabuverdianu lingua, from Latin lingua, from Old Latin dingua, from Proto-Italic *denɣwā, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.
Noun
[edit]lenga
Piedmontese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin lingua, from Old Latin dingua, from Proto-Italic *denɣwā, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lenga f (plural lenghe)
Sena
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Kunda -lenga (“to create”), Nyungwe -lenga (“to create”), Chichewa -lenga (“to create”), and Tumbuka -lenga (“to create”).
Verb
[edit]-lenga (infinitive kulenga)
- to create
References
[edit]- Bible Society of Malawi, Sena, Kutoma 1:1 (the verb is in the 3rd person singular remote past form)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Mapudungun lenga.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]lenga f (plural lengas)
- lenga (tree)
- lenga beech
Swahili
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]-lenga (infinitive kulenga)
Conjugation
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Derived terms
[edit]- Verbal derivations:
- Passive: -lengwa
Tumbuka
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Chichewa -lenga (“to create”), Sena -lenga (“to create”), Kunda -lenga (“to create”) and Nyungwe -lenga (“to create”).
Verb
[edit]-lenga (infinitive kulenga)
Derived terms
[edit]- -lengeka (“to be created”)
- Mlengi (“Creator”)
- mlengalenga (“the heavens”)
- vilengiwa (“created objects”)
References
[edit]- William Y. Turner (1996), Tumbuka/Tonga-English and English - Tumbuka/Tonga Dictionary[2], Central Africana Limited
Xhosa
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Bantu *-dénga.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]-lenga
- to hang
Inflection
[edit]This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Zulu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Bantu *-dénga.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]-lenga
- (intransitive) to dangle, to hang
Inflection
[edit]References
[edit]- C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “lenga”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “lenga (6.3)”
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