nuga

See also: nüga, nügă, nugā, and nu-ga

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *nuka. Cognate with Finnish nykä.

Noun

nuga (genitive noa, partitive nuga)

1. dagger
2. knife
3. blade

Declension

Inflection of nuga (ÕS type 18e/tuba, g-ø gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	nuga	noad
accusative	noa	noad
genitive	noa	nugade
partitive	nuga	nuge nugasid
illative	nukka noasse	nugadesse
inessive	noas	nugades
elative	noast	nugadest
allative	noale	nugadele
adessive	noal	nugadel
ablative	noalt	nugadelt
translative	noaks	nugadeks
terminative	noani	nugadeni
essive	noana	nugadena
abessive	noata	nugadeta
comitative	noaga	nugadega

Derived terms

• leivanuga (“bread knife”)

Descendants

• → Ingrian: nuka

Further reading

• nuga in Sõnaveeb

Latin

Noun

nūga f (genitive nūgae); first declension

1. (New Latin) singular of nūgae (“jests, trifles”)
   • 1588, Giordano Bruno, Camoeracensis Acrotismus, article 53:

     […] hac nuga, oblitus, non utitur ubi nobilior coeli pars illi sit sub zodiaco […]

     […] he does not make use of this trifle—forgotten!—when the nobler part of the sky should be there under the zodiac […]

   • 1775, Theophan Prokopovich, Christiana Orthodoxa Theologia […] , volume 5, page 27:

     Profecto enim magna est haec nuga.

     For this trifle is actually something great.

Latvian

Noun

nuga ? (^??? please provide the declension type!)

1. nougat

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Lithuanian

Noun

nuga ?

1. nougat

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French nougat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnu.ɡa/

Noun

nuga f (plural nugale)

1. nougat

Declension

Declension of nuga

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) nuga	nugaua	(niște) nugale	nugalele
genitive/dative	(unei) nugale	nugalei	(unor) nugale	nugalelor
vocative	—		—

References

• nuga in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Uzbek

Noun

nuga (plural nugalar)

1. nougat