# punga
## English
### Noun

punga (plural pungas)
* Alternative form of ponga

### Anagrams

* Pangu

## Hungarian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpuŋɡɒ]
* Hyphenation: pun‧ga
* Rhymes: -ɡɒ

### Noun

punga (plural pungák)
* (Transylvania, informal) bag (soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc.)
    Synonyms: zacskó, tasak

#### Derived terms

* pungás
* pungamagyar

## Icelandic
### Noun

punga
* indefinite accusative plural of pungur
* indefinite genitive plural of pungur

## Italian
### Verb

punga
* inflection of pungere:
** first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* pugna

## Maori
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *puŋa (“coral rock”) (compare with Hawaiian puna (“coral, lime, plaster, calcium”), Tahitian puʻa (“coral, lime”), Tongan punga, Samoan puga) 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”)). Doublet of pungapunga and pua.

### Noun

punga
* coral
* any silicate or calcite material
    pungarehu: ash
    pungapunga: pumice
* anchor

### Verb

punga
* to anchor
* to secure
* to sink, to fall

### Related terms

* pungarehu
* pungapunga
* pungorungoru

### References

* ↑ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 374
* ↑ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “puga.1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
* ↑ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2008) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 2: The Physical Environment, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 108

### Further reading

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

## Romanian
### Noun

punga
* definite nominative/accusative singular of pungă

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpunɡa/ [ˈpũŋ.ɡa]
* Rhymes: -unɡa
* Syllabification: pun‧ga

### Adjective

punga m or f (masculine and feminine plural pungas)
* (slang, Chile) vulgar, rascal, common person

### Further reading

* “punga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

-punga (infinitive kupunga)
* to decrease, diminish
* to exorcise

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -punga :
| Positive present | -napunga |
| Subjunctive | -punge |
| Negative | -pungi |
| Imperative singular | punga |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kupunga |
| Negative | kutopunga |
Imperatives :
| Singular | punga |
| Plural | pungeni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hupunga |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -lipunga |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kupunga |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tapunga |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tapunga |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sipunge |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngepunga |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singepunga |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalipunga |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalipunga |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -mepunga |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshapunga |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -japunga |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kipunga |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipopunga |
| Consecutive | kapunga / positive subject concord + -kapunga |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kapunge |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

#### Derived terms

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

## Swedish
### Etymology

pung (“scrotum”) +‎ -a

### Verb

punga (present pungar, preterite pungade, supine pungat, imperative punga)
* (slang) to place (something) between one's penis and scrotum (or in one's underwear more generally, usually for smuggling purposes)

#### See also

* punga ut

### References

* Fula Ordboken
* Slangopedia

## Tagalog
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

punga (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜅ) (derogatory)
* Chinese person

#### Related terms

* beho

#### See also

* pungas

### Further reading

* “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

### Anagrams

* upang