unga

unga (plural ungas)

1. Sarotherodon linnellii, a cichlid endemic to Lake Barombi Mbo in western Cameroon.
   • 1993, Endangered Wildlife of the World, volume 10, page 1317:

     One species in particular, the fissi (Sarotherodon caroli), is close to the unga.

• unga bunga

Related to the noun ungi (“hatchling”)

• Rhymes: -uŋka

unga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative ungaði, supine ungað)

1. to hatch

• klekja

• ungun

unga

1. indefinite accusative singular of ungi
2. indefinite dative singular of ungi
3. indefinite genitive singular of ungi
4. indefinite accusative plural of ungi
5. indefinite genitive plural of ungi

unga

1. inflection of ungere:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• ugna

unga

1. Rōmaji transcription of うんが

• ung'a, (archaic) ung-a, ungha
• 'nga (unstressed aphetic form)

Ultimately from Old Galician-Portuguese ũa, possibly through an intermediate form from Indo-Portuguese. Compare Galician unha, pronounced identically.

• IPA^(key): /ˈuŋa/

unga

1. (indefinite) a, an, one

   abri'nga janela ― opening a window

   Dâ ung'a xicra di chá pa iou

   Bring me a cup of tea

• Macanese does not have a definite article.

• acunga, acung'a (“that”)
• cadunga, cadung'a (“every”)
• estunga, estung'a (“this”)
• destunga, destung'a (“this; that”)
• otrunga, otrung'a (“other, another”)
• qualunga, qualung'a (“which”)

unga

1. one

• The spelling ung'a is preferred by Maquista Chapado (2004), however unga with no apostrophe seems to be dominant in literature, and is also the spelling preferred by the group Dóci Papiaçám di Macau.
• The apostrophe is used to prevent pronunciation as /ˈuŋɡa/, although some speakers nonetheless pronounce it as such.

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm
• Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “unga”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 553

unga m

1. (nonstandard, dialectal) definite plural of unge

unga m

1. (nonstandard, dialectal) definite plural of unge
   • 1879, Hallvard Berg, Segner fraa Bygdom, Christiania: Samlaget, page 93:

     "No, Unga, kunne de slutte mæ Lesnae ei Stund o høyre paa me."

     "Now, kids, you can stop with the reading for a while and listen to me."

unga

1. positive degree strong feminine accusative singular of ungr
2. positive degree strong masculine accusative plural of ungr
3. positive degree weak masculine oblique singular of ungr
4. positive degree weak feminine nominative singular of ungr
5. positive degree weak neuter singular of ungr

Compare Chirino yungo.

unga

1. water

• Willem F. H. Adelaar, The Languages of the Andes

• ungra

Compare Italian unghia.

unga

1. fingernail

From Swahili unga (“flour”).

unga class 14

1. gunpowder

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

unga (u class, no plural)

1. flour

-unga (infinitive kuunga)

1. to join, accompany
2. (in reflexive forms) to subscribe

   Synonym: -shitariki

3. to season, add seasoning

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -ungia
  • Causative: -ungisha
  • Passive: -ungwa
  • Reciprocal: -ungana
  • Stative: -ungika
  • Other formations: -unga mkono (“to support”)

• Nominal derivations:
  • kiungo (“spice; joint”)
  • uungaji mkono (“support”)
  • uungaji

unga

1. inflection of ung:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

Onomatopoeic.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔuˈŋaʔ/ [ʔʊˈŋaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: u‧nga

ungâ (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜅ)

1. lowing or mooing of cattle

• ungal

• “unga”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

unga

1. question