nga

nga

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Ngbaka.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Ngbaka terms

nga (plural ngas)

1. (African-American Vernacular, Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of nigga.
   • 2022 September 4, @jimmyperry0621, Twitter‎^[1], archived from the original on 17 December 2023:

     This is what a RACEWAR looks like, and we still got dumb ngas out here thinking White Supremacy isn't real.

   • 2023 April 26, u/Formal_Garage4964, “They are gonna drop in this order: HXG -> Lone -> Carti -> Lone+Ken”, in Reddit‎^[2], r/playboicarti, archived from the original on 17 December 2023:

     This nga thinks carti gonna drop😭💀💀

   • 2023 December 16, @candiemariah1, Twitter‎^[3], archived from the original on 17 December 2023:

     It's easy to say you a real nga till the feds come n give u a deal nga

   • 2023 December 1, u/Upstairs-Act-1930, “Jus need a confirmation it's album month 😪”, in Reddit‎^[4], r/SoFaygo, archived from the original on 17 December 2023:

     lamar said "album before 2024" but yk those ngas be lying

• ka ^[1] (Gheg)

From Proto-Albanian *en-ka and related to the preposition ka (“from, out, out of, to”). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic къ (kŭ, “to”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ŋ(ɡ)a/

nga (+ nominative)

1. at, from, to

   Jo, unë nuk jam nga Shqipëria.

   No, I am not from Albania.

• prej

nga

1. whence, where from

• IPA^(key): /ŋa/

nga

1. yes

• Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad (2019). Barngarlidhi Manoo (Speaking Barngarla Together) (Barngarla Alphabet & Picture Book). p.14.
  Part 1 Part 2
• Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad and Clamor Wilhelm Schürmann (2018). Online Barngarla Dictionary.
• Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad (2016). Barngarla Aboriginal Language Dictionary App.
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.regenr8.dictionary.barngarla
  https://apps.apple.com/au/app/barngarla/id1424856161

• IPA^(key): /ŋa/
• Rhymes: -ŋa
• Hyphenation: nga

nga

1. expressing substance, composition

   Balay nga bato.

   House of stone.

2. expressing possession

   Ako nga balay / Akong balay

   my house

• mba (Maasina)

nga

1. (Adamawa) Noun class indicator for nouns (singular) including large animals

nga

1. (Adamawa, definite) the (when it follows the noun)

   mbeewa nga ― the goat

nga

1. (Adamawa) (used in indicating something)

   nga mbeewa ― this/that goat

• IPA^(key): /ŋa/

nga

1. hey

• (2003) Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay Yuwaalayaay Dictionary

nga m

1. eclipsed form of ga

nga

1. Rōmaji transcription of か゚
2. Rōmaji transcription of カ゚

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ŋja (“fish”). Cognate with Burmese ငါး (nga:), Old Chinese 魚 (OC *ŋa).

nga

1. fish

• IPA^(key): /ˈŋa/ [ˈŋa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: nga

nga

1. groan, cry

• Morice Vanoverbergh (1933) “nga”, in A Dictionary of Lepanto Igorot or Kankanay. As it is spoken at Bauco (Linguistische Anthropos-Bibliothek; XII)‎^[5], Mödling bei Wien, St. Gabriel, Österreich: Verlag der Internationalen Zeitschrift „Anthropos“, →OCLC, page 316

From Proto-Philippine *ŋani. Compare Remontado Agta ngani, Bikol Central ngani, Cebuano gani, Tagalog nga, and Ilocano ngay.

pin

1. a particle used for emphatic affirmation, used in conjunction with pin

   Wangapin gawan ke.

   Yeah, I will definitely and absolutely do it.

2. Used to promise to do something to the listener, used in conjunction with pin

   Salingaping aiskrim.

   I'll buy you an ice cream.

   Magpakatutu nakungapin.

   I'll tell you the truth.

3. used when suddenly remembering something to be told to someone: oh yeah; by the way

   Hypernym: wapin pala

   Nga pala, komusta na?

   Hey, so, how are you?

   Awa nga pala.

   Oh yeah, I remember now.

From Proto-Khasian *ŋa, from a Sino-Tibetan language. Cognate with Pnar nga.

Unlike other Khasian languages, which maintains the distinction between Proto-Khasian *ŋa (> Pnar nga (“me, I (topic-marked)”)) and *ʔɔ > (Pnar o (“I (unmarked)”)), Khasi generalized nga for first person pronoun.

nga

1. first person singular personal pronoun: I, me

   Nga ieit ïa phi. ― I love you.

   U long u paralok jong nga. ― He is my friend.

   Ïarap ïa nga. ― Help me.

nga

1. but (although)

• IPA^(key): /ŋa/

nga

1. Second-person singular pronoun: you, your, yours

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋa.

• IPA^(key): [ŋɑ̃˧]
• Hyphenation: nga

nga

1. I

• Fuminobu Nishida (2013) “Phonetics and phonology of Dzolo dialect of Namuyi”, in Artes Liberales, number 92, pages 21-54
• Štěpán Pavlík (2017) The Description of Namuzi Language‎^[6], Prague: Charles University (PhD Thesis), page 129
• Li Jianfu (2017) A Descriptive Grammar of Namuyi Khatho spoken by Namuyi Tibetans‎^[7], Victoria: La Trobe University (PhD Thesis), page 374

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ŋaa, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ŋja.

nga

1. fish

• Matu (Chin) Dictionary by Ropna Saruum, Matupi 2007

• IPA^(key): /ŋa/

nga

1. short for ngana

From Proto-Khasian *ŋa, from a Sino-Tibetan language. Cognate with Khasi nga.

• IPA^(key): /ŋa/

nga

1. me
2. (topic-marking) I

• The nominative, unmarked counterpart is o.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l-ŋaʔ (“five”).

• IPA^(key): /nɡə/

1. 5 (five)

• (Pyu digits):           

• IPA^(key): /ŋɑ˧/

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ŋja (“fish”). Cognate with Burmese ငါး (nga:), Old Chinese 魚 (OC *ŋa).

nga

1. fish

nga

1. cattle

In compound words of both etymologies, nga may become ngv and may also take tone.

Cognate with Chicahuaxtla Triqui nga³.

• IPA^(key): /ŋɡa˧/

nga

1. cloud

• DiCanio, Christian T. (2010) “Itunyoso Trique”, in Journal of the International Phonetic Association, volume 40, number 2, →DOI, pages 227–238

nga

1. buffalo

• Stephen Morey, The Singpho Agentive – Functions and Meanings (2012), p. 6

• ñga, ng̃a, n͠ga — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

Influenced by Baybayin character ᜅ (nga).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈŋa/ [ˈŋa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: nga

nga (Baybayin spelling ᜅ)

1. the name of the Latin-script letter Ng/ng, in the Abakada alphabet

   Synonym: (in the Filipino alphabet) en dyi

• nganga

Compare ngani.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈŋaʔ/ [ˈŋaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: nga

ngâ (Baybayin spelling ᜅ)

1. a particle used to indicate affirmation

   Tama nga 'to.

   It's indeed correct.

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

• nag-, Ang, ang, Gan

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ŋaa, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ŋja.

nga

1. fish

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ŋaa, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l/b-ŋa.

nga

1. five

• Zomi Ordbog based on the work of D.L. Haokip

nga

1. child

nga

1. by
2. at

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ŋaː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ŋaː˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ŋaː˧˧]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 娥 (“beautiful”). Probably related with 嫦娥 (Cháng'é, “the Chinese goddess of the moon”).

nga

1. (archaic, literary) only used in tố nga (“the moon”).
2. (archaic, literary) only used in tiên nga (“angel; fairy”).

Sino-Vietnamese word from 鵝 (“goose”).

nga

1. only used in thiên nga (“swan”).

• gan

From Mandarin 我 (wǒ).

• IPA^(key): [ŋɑ]

nga

1. me (first-person non-subject pronoun)

   ni nga da-lio.

   You have beaten me.

   (Quoted in Sandman, p. 73)

• Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun‎^[8], University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN

Zou cardinal numbers

<  4	5	6  >
Cardinal : nga

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ŋaa, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l/b-ŋa. Cognates include Burmese ငါး (nga:) and Tibetan ལྔ (lnga).

• IPA^(key): /ŋa˧/

nga

1. five

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ŋaa, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ŋja. Cognates include Burmese ငါး (nga:) and Tibetan ཉ (nya).

• IPA^(key): /ŋa˧˥/

ngá

1. fish

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *ŋaʔ, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋas. Cognates include Mizo ngàh.

• IPA^(key): /ŋa˧˩/

ngà

1. (transitive) to receive

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *hŋaak, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ŋa-k. Cognates include Jingpho nga.

• IPA^(key): /ŋa˧˩/

ngà

1. (intransitive) to wait

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 62