# ranga
## English
### Etymology

Extracted from (o)rang(utan), with -er suffix; in use since 1990s; to a certain extent popularised by the ABC television show Summer Heights High (2007).

### Pronunciation

* (General Australian) IPA: /ɹæŋə/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -æŋə

### Noun

ranga (plural rangas)
* (Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) An orange-haired or red-haired person.
** 2009, David Foster, Sons of the Rumour, unnumbered page:You′re looking down upon ‘rangas’ crossing at the traffic lights below. What a cheap but satisfying form of Dublin entertainment! With the sun out, the redheads of Dublin glow like copper wire.
** 2010, Mungo MacCallum, Punch & Judy: The Double Disillusion Election of 2010, Large Print 16pt Edition, page ii,
    Indeed, Julia Eileen Gillard may not even be the country′s first ranga prime minister; since all the old ones appear only in black and white, we can′t tell.
** 2010, Katrina Nannestad, Red Dirt Diary, HarperCollins Australia, unnumbered page,
    Fez′s resolutions: […]
    3. I will not call Blue ‘Ranga Girl’.
** 2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin, published 2018, page 183:Joy and Lydia and Izzy despised the rest of the girls, from their plucked little threesome, disgusted by Yolanda's hairy calves, the faint down over a lip, Verla's ranga armpits.
** 2018, Aussie Disney (YouTube), Aussie Incredibles:
    SID: Yeah, all my friends hate me, I don't know why. MR. INCREDIBLE: Maybe it's because you're a fucking ranga you cockhead. SID: What the fuck did you just say, cunt? MR. INCREDIBLE: I said; ranga. SID: I am not a ranga!

#### Usage notes

Sometimes used as a nickname or epithet.

#### See also

* bloodnut
* Bluey
* ginger

### Anagrams

* Nagra, Ragan, argan, grana

## Albanian
### Noun

ranga
* definite nominative singular of rangë

## Bikol Central
### Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit रङ्ग (raṅga, “amusement, diversion, mirth”).

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ra‧nga
* IPA: /ˈɾaŋa/ [ˈɾa.ŋa]

### Noun

ránga
* relief, solace, consoling
    Synonym: konsuwelo
* comfort, comforting
    Synonyms: ginhawa, karinyo

#### Derived terms

* karangahan
* magranga
* maranga
* rangahan

## Icelandic
### Noun

ranga f (genitive singular röngu, no plural)
* reverse side
* wrong side

#### Declension
## Irish
### Noun

ranga
* genitive singular of rang

## Maori
### Alternative forms

* rangā

### Verb

ranga
* to raise up from the ground
* to uproot, to pull from the roots
* to set in motion, to transport

### Noun

ranga
* group, team, company of people
* school of fish

### Further reading

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

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Rang. Doublet of ring and rynek.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈraŋ.ɡa/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aŋɡa
* Syllabification: ran‧ga

### Noun

ranga f
* (military) rank
** 2014 July 6, Jędrzej Bielecki, Piotr Gursztyn, Monika Kruszewska-Mikucka, Olgierd Kwiatkowski, Kinga Olszewska, “Usadzenie przy stole podczas podróży służbowej pokazuje miejsce w szeregu”, in Rzeczpospolita‎, archived from the original on 2022-05-15:Nawet w sytuacji, kiedy gość jest znacznie wyższy rangą od gospodarza, nadal osoba przyjmująca delegację wita się jako pierwsza.Even in a situation where the guest is much higher in rank than the host, the person receiving the delegation is still greeted as the first.
* weight, importance
    Synonym: doniosłość

#### Declension
### Further reading

* ranga in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* ranga in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Verb

ranga
* inflection of rangar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative