menga
التعريفات والمعاني
== Gullah ==
=== Alternative forms ===
'menga
=== Etymology ===
From Kongo menga.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /meŋ.ɡa/
=== Noun ===
menga (’meŋga)
blood
=== References ===
Lorenzo Dow Turner, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1969)
== Icelandic ==
=== Etymology ===
Modification (through hypercorrection) of meinga, from mein (“harm”). Compare enginn.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈmeiŋka/
Rhymes: -eiŋka
=== Verb ===
menga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative mengaði, supine mengað)
to pollute
==== Conjugation ====
=== Anagrams ===
megna
== Kituba ==
=== Noun ===
menga
blood
== Kongo ==
=== Noun ===
menga class 6
blood
== Lombard ==
=== Alternative forms ===
minga (hypercorrection)
mea (loss of nasalization)
=== Etymology ===
From Lombardic nəmenga (“not at all”), Proto-Germanic *ne-mangaz (“not sufficient”), ne (“not”) + *mengʰ- (“sufficient”). Influenced by Vulgar Latin negation *miŋ/*meŋ (Classical Latin minus), perceived as masculine.
=== Adverb ===
menga
not at all; not
=== Noun ===
menga
nothing; the nothing, nothingness
no value
== Norwegian Bokmål ==
=== Alternative forms ===
menget
mengte (simple past)
mengt (past participle)
=== Verb ===
menga
inflection of menge:
simple past
past participle
== Serbo-Croatian ==
=== Etymology ===
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
=== Noun ===
mȅnga f (Cyrillic spelling ме̏нга)
(colloquial) menstruation
Synonyms: kataménije, menstruácija, menoréja, mènses, mènzes, mjȅsečnica, perióda
==== Declension ====
== Uzbek ==
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈmeŋɡa/
=== Pronoun ===
menga
(personal) dative of men: me, to me