estinga

• tinga, raia tinga

Documented at least since the 18th century; perhaps borrowed from English stingray rather than an old loanword from Suevic or Gothic.^[1] Ultimatelly from Proto-Germanic *stinganą, whence also Old Norse stinga.

• IPA^(key): /esˈtiŋɡa̝/

estinga f (plural estingas)

1. stingray
   • 1788, Cornide Saavedra, José. Ensayo para una historia de los peces ... de la costa de Galicia, page 127:

     Tambien se dá en gallego el nombre de Raya tinga ó estinga [..] á una especie de Pastinaca mas blanca que la comun

     Also, in Galician they call raia tinga or estinga to some kind of stingray that is whiter than the common one:

   Synonyms: raia estriga, uxa

2. (obsolete) an instrument used by brass workers

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “estinga”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “estinga”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “estinga”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN