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See also: -pigą, pIgA, and pîga

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pi‧ga
  • IPA(key): /piˈɡa/ [piˈɡa]

Noun

pigá

  1. roe; fish eggs
  2. spawn
    Synonym: duyag

Catalan

Etymology

Possibly related to picar or pic.

Pronunciation

Noun

piga f (plural pigues)

  1. freckle

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “piga” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cornish

Etymology

From pig (pickaxe) + -a.

Verb

piga

  1. to goad, incite, prick, sting
    Synonyms: brosa, gwana, movya, ynia

Conjugation

More information singular, plural ...

Mutation

More information unmutated, soft ...

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Emilian

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Alternative forms

Noun

piga f (plural pighi) (Modena)

  1. fold
  2. pleat
  3. crease
  4. tuck
  5. twist

Ibaloi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *pijax. Compare with Pangasinan piga.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /piˈɡa/ [pɪˈɣɑ]
  • Hyphenation: pi‧ga

Pronoun

piga

  1. (interrogative) how many
    Piga jen titit ey binidang mo?
    How many birds did you count?
  2. (interrogative) how much
    Piga ita pangshan?
    How much is that pineapple?

Derived terms

  • pepiga

Russenorsk

Etymology

From Danish pige (girl).

Noun

piga

  1. daughter

Usage notes

It is not known for sure, but pretty obvious, that the word could also mean a girl, not only because of its origin, but also because it is attested together with Russenorsk junka, when it was used in meaning son.

References

  • Ingvild Broch; Ernst H. Jahr (1984), Russenorsk: Et pidginspråk i Norge [Russenorsk: A pidgin language in Norway], 2 edition, Oslo: Novus Forlag
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Swahili

Pronunciation

Verb

-piga (infinitive kupiga)

  1. to hit, to strike
  2. to play (an instrument)
  3. Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun.
    kura (ballot)-piga kura ("cast a ballot")

Conjugation

More information Conjugation of, Positive present ...

Derived terms

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse píka. Cognate with Icelandic píka and Danish pige. Also cognate with Finnish piika, Estonian piiga, and arguably, with Chuvash пике́ (pik̬é, noblewoman, beauty). Difficult to determine which language borrowed from which.

Noun

piga c

  1. (dated) a maid, a female servant; female employee on a farm, as in a milkmaid.
  2. (archaic) a girl, a young woman
  3. (obsolete) an unmarried woman (regardless of age)

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *pəʀəq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pəʀəq, from Proto-Austronesian *pəʀəq (to squeeze out juice). Compare Kapampangan apia, Bikol Central puga, Cebuano puga, Malay perah, and Chamorro fugo'.

Pronunciation

Noun

pigâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜄ)

  1. squeezing out of fluid from an object (such as squeezing out juice from fruit, or wringing out water from clothes)

Derived terms

  • ipiga
  • magpiga
  • pigaan
  • pigain
  • pumiga

Descendants

  • Kapampangan: piga

See also

  • ekstraksiyon

Further reading

  • piga”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018.

Anagrams

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From Malay pinjam.

Verb

piga

  1. to borrow

West Makian

Etymology

From Ternate piga (large plate), from Malay pinggan, from Classical Persian پنگان (pingān).

Pronunciation

Noun

piga

  1. dish, plate

References

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours, Pacific linguistics

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