punga

punga (plural pungas)

1. Alternative form of ponga.

• Pangu

Borrowed from Romanian pungă (“bag, purse”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpuŋɡɒ]
• Hyphenation: pun‧ga
• Rhymes: -ɡɒ

punga (plural pungák)

1. (Transylvania, informal) bag (soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc.)

   Synonyms: zacskó, tasak

punga

1. indefinite accusative plural of pungur
2. indefinite genitive plural of pungur

punga

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

• pugna

From Proto-Polynesian *puŋa (“coral rock”) (compare with Hawaiian puna (“coral, lime, plaster, calcium”), Tahitian puʻa (“coral, lime”), Tongan punga, Samoan puga)^[1] from Proto-Oceanic *buŋa (“white, porous coral or growth”) (compare with Fijian vuga), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buŋa ni batu (“coral sponge, lit. 'stone bloom'”) extension of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buŋa (“flower”) (compare with Malay bunga and bunga karang (“sponge”)).^[2][3] Doublet of pungapunga and pua.

punga

1. coral
2. any silicate or calcite material

   pungarehu: ash

   pungapunga: pumice

3. anchor

punga

1. to anchor
2. to secure
3. to sink, to fall

• pungarehu
• pungapunga
• pungorungoru

• “punga” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

• Rhymes: -ũɡɐ

Borrowed from Lunfardo punga. Cognate with Spanish punga.

punga m or f by sense (plural pungas)

1. (Brazil, informal) pickpocket

   Synonyms: (Brazil) punguista, (Brazil) batedor de carteira, (Portugal) carteirista

punga f (plural pungas)

1. (Brazil, informal) pickpocketing

Unknown. Perhaps from an African language.

punga f (plural pungas)

1. (Brazil, music) a type of samba

Unknown.

punga m or f (plural pungas)

1. (Brazil) useless, of low quality
2. (Brazil, horse racing, of a horse) that usually finishes last in a race

punga m (plural pungas)

1. (Brazil) a low-performing horse

• “punga”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “punga”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “punga”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

punga

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of pungă

• IPA^(key): /ˈpunɡa/ [ˈpũŋ.ɡa]
• Rhymes: -unɡa
• Syllabification: pun‧ga

punga m or f (masculine and feminine plural pungas)

1. (slang, Chile) vulgar, rascal, common person

• “punga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

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-punga (infinitive kupunga)

1. to decrease, diminish
2. to exorcise

• Verbal derivations:
  • Augmentative: -pungua
  • Causative: -punguza
  • Passive: -pungwa

pung (“scrotum”) +‎ -a

punga (present pungar, preterite pungade, supine pungat, imperative punga)

1. (slang) to place (something) between one's penis and scrotum (or in one's underwear more generally, usually for smuggling purposes)

• punga ut

• Fula Ordboken
• Slangopedia

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpuŋa/ [ˈpuː.ŋɐ]
• Rhymes: -uŋa
• Syllabification: pu‧nga

punga (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜅ) (derogatory)

1. Chinese person

• beho

• pungas

• “punga”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Santos, Vito C. (1978) Vicassan's Pilipino-English Dictionary, Revised edition (overall work in Tagalog and English), With an Introduction by Teodoro A. Agoncillo, Metro Manila: National Book Store, →ISBN, page 2157

• upang