nuga

See also: nüga, nügă, nugā, and nu-ga

Estonian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈnuɡ̊ɑ/, [ˈnuɡ̊ɑ]

Noun

nuga (genitive noa, partitive nuga)

1. knife

   Synonyms: tera, laba

   Miks sa noaga sedasi nusserdad, väitsaga vestetakse.

   Why are you jigging with a knife like that, use the whittle for the sculpting.

Declension

Declension of nuga (ÕS type 18e/tuba, g-ø gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		nuga	noad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	noa
genitive			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

Related verbs

nüsima; nusima; nügima (“to nudge”)

Associated verbs

lõikama (“to cut”); pussitama (“to stab”); vestma (“to whittle”); voolima (“to sculpt”); koorima (“to peel”); nüritama (“to dull”); teritama (“to sharpen”)

Associated nouns

lõikur (“cutter”); puss (“sheath-knife”); pister (“dagger”); tääk (“bayonet”); mõõk (“sword”); kiin (“billhook”); väits (“whittle”); käänik (“clasp-knife”); kurask; käärid (“scissors”); pardel (“razor”); raakel (“doctor blade”); sirp (“sickle”); vikat (“scythe”)

Further reading

• nuga in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “nuga”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012

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 f (4th declension)

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	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	nuga	nugaua		nugale	nugalele
genitive-dative	nugale	nugalei		nugale	nugalelor
vocative	—			—

References

• “nuga”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

Uzbek

Noun

nuga (plural nugalar)

1. nougat