nuga

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

IPA^(key): /ˈnuɡ̊ɑ/, [ˈnuɡ̊ɑ]

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.

• leivanuga (“bread knife”)

• → Ingrian: nuka

nüsima; nusima; nügima (“to nudge”)

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

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”)

• 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

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.

nuga f (4th declension)

1. nougat

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Borrowed from French nougat.

• IPA^(key): /n̪ʊ.ɡɐ/

nuga f

1. nougat

Borrowed from French nougat.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnu.ɡa/

nuga f (plural nugale)

1. nougat

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

nuga (plural nugalar)

1. nougat