minga

See also: Minga

English

Etymology

From Pitjantjatjara minga tjuta (“ants”). Compare emmet.

Noun

minga (plural minga)

1. (Central Australia, derogatory) A tourist, especially one that comes to climb Uluru.
   • 2004, Australia, →ISBN, page 10:

     To have Uluru interpreted by an Anangu guide is far more fulfilling than trailing after the minga, or "ants", as those who show their disrespect by climbing the sacred monolith are called.

   • 2008, Frommer's Australia:

     It's easy to see why local Aborigines refer to these intruders as minga—or little ants.

   • 2009, Rolf Potts, Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer, →ISBN, page 127:

     I, too, have come to central Australia as a minga tjuta, though I'm not here to scale the slopes of Uluru.

   • 2018, Holly Ringland, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart:

     At the end of her patrol yesterday arvo, Ruby went into the crater and found a group of minga off track.

Anagrams

• gamin, migan, Nigam, Aming, Magin, gmina, magni-

Barngarla

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiŋa/

Noun

minga

1. a shrub growing on the sandy coast, and bearing a pod similar to French beans

Usage notes

cf. mingga "sore, sick, ill"

References

• 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

Bulu (Cameroon)

Noun

minga (plural binga)

1. woman (adult female human)

Garo

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-meŋ (“to name, call”). Analyzable as /ming-/ + -a.

Verb

minga (transitive)

1. to name, call by one's personal name (as opposed to one's family name)

See also

• biming

References

• Burling, R. (2003), The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon‎, Bangladesh: University of Michigan, page 234

Italian

Verb

minga

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

Anagrams

• magni, mangi

Pitjantjatjara

Noun

minga

1. ant

Portuguese

Verb

minga

1. inflection of mingar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈminɡa/ [ˈmĩŋ.ɡa]
• Rhymes: -inɡa
• Syllabification: min‧ga

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Quechua mink'a.

Noun

minga f (plural mingas)

1. (South America) collective work

Etymology 2

First attested in 1627. Of unclear origin, but similar to the synonym pinga. Possibly derived from the latter. Sometimes considered to derive from Latin mingere (“urinate”), but the considerable time-gap argues against it.

Noun

minga f (plural mingas)

1. (Spain, vulgar) penis

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pene

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Italian mica.

Interjection

minga

1. (Rioplatense, slang) no way; fuck off

   Ese juguete es mío. ― ¡Minga! El que lo encuentra, se lo queda.

   That toy is mine. ― No way! Finders keepers.

References

• https://raicesdeperaleda.com/diccionario/minga/p-4490

Further reading

• “minga”, 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