nuga

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See also: nüga, nügă, nugā, and nu-ga

Estonian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

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Noun[edit]

nuga (genitive noa, partitive nuga)

  1. dagger
  2. knife
  3. blade

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  • Ingrian: nuka

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Latin[edit]

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

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

  1. nougat

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Lithuanian[edit]

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nuga ?

  1. nougat

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Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French nougat.

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nuga f (plural nugale)

  1. nougat

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Uzbek[edit]

Noun[edit]

nuga (plural nugalar)

  1. nougat