# inga
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese ingá, borrowed from Old Tupi ingá, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *iŋa.

### Noun

inga (plural ingas)
* (botany) Any of the genus Inga of small tropical trees and shrubs.
** 1838, The British cyclopaedia, page 605:Here are the mimosas, the ingas, the acacias, the maples, the beautiful ailantus, and the fine fruit tree, the mango.
** 1989, “Lost crops of the Incas”, in U.S, National Research Council, page 279:Fruit trees such as ingas are underutilized in reforestation efforts.

#### Translations
### Further reading

* inga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Inga (Fabaceae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

### Anagrams

* Agin, Agni, Angi, Gain, Gina, NGIA, Nagi, Ngai, a- -ing, ag'in, agin, gain, gain-, gina

## Cebuano
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /iˈŋaʔ/, [ɪˈŋʌʔ]

### Noun

inga
* mooing or lowing sound of cattle
    Synonym: amba

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: /ˈɪnɣaː/
* Hyphenation: in‧ga
* Rhymes: -ɪnɣaː

### Verb

inga
* inflection of ingaan:
** first-person singular dependent-clause present indicative
** (dated or formal) singular dependent-clause present subjunctive

### Anagrams

* ga in

## Eastern Bontoc
### Noun

inga
* (anatomy) ear

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From the ing variant of the verb inog (“to wobble”) +‎ -a (archaic participle suffix). Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries. For the ending, compare hinta, csusza.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈiŋɡɒ]
* Hyphenation: in‧ga
* Rhymes: -ɡɒ

### Noun

inga (plural ingák)
* pendulum

#### Derived terms

* ingájú
* ingás
* ingázik
* Foucault-inga
* ingaóra

### References

* ↑ inga in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

### Further reading

* inga in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* inga in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

## Japanese
### Romanization

inga
* Rōmaji transcription of いんが

## Kankanaey
### Etymology

Compare Tagalog tainga.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Kankanaey) IPA: /ˈʔiŋa/ [ˈʔi̞ː.ŋʌ]
* Rhymes: -iŋa
* Syllabification: i‧nga

### Noun

ínga
* (anatomy) ear
    Synonym: keweng

## Limos Kalinga
### Noun

inga
* (anatomy) ear

## Lubuagan Kalinga
### Noun

inga
* (anatomy) ear

## Malay
### Verb

inga (Jawi spelling ايڠا)
* to be agape

### Further reading

* “inga” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Pronoun

inga
* feminine singular of ingen

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronoun

inga
* feminine singular of ingen

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈinˌɡɑː/

### Verb

ingā
* inflection of ingān:
** first-person singular present indicative
** singular present subjunctive
** singular imperative

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɪŋˌa/, [ˈɪŋːˌâ]
* Audio:(file)

### Determiner

inga
* plural of ingen

### Pronoun

inga
* plural of ingen

### Adverb

inga (not comparable)
* (Finland, dialectal) not
    Synonyms: inte, ej, icke

### References

* inga in Ordbok över Finlands svenska folkmål, Institute for the Languages of Finland.

### Anagrams

* niga