# piga
## Bikol Central
### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: pi‧ga
* IPA: /piˈɡa/ [piˈɡa]

### Noun

pigá
* roe; fish eggs
* spawn
    Synonym: duyag

## Catalan
### Etymology

Possibly related to picar or pic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈpi.ɣə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈpi.ɣa]
* Rhymes: -iɡa

### Noun

piga f (plural pigues)
* freckle

#### Derived terms

* pigallat
* pigallós
* pigard
* pigat

### Further reading

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

## Emilian
### Alternative forms

* pîga (Reggiano)

### Noun

piga f (plural pighi) (Modena)
* fold
* pleat
* crease
* tuck
* twist

## Russenorsk
### Etymology

From Danish pige (“girl”).

### Noun

piga
* 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

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

-piga (infinitive kupiga)
* to hit, to strike
* to play (an instrument)
* Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun.
    kura (“ballot”) → -piga kura ("cast a ballot")

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -piga :
| Positive present | -napiga |
| Subjunctive | -pige |
| Negative | -pigi |
| Imperative singular | piga |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kupiga |
| Negative | kutopiga |
Imperatives :
| Singular | piga |
| Plural | pigeni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hupiga |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -lipiga |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kupiga |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tapiga |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tapiga |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sipige |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngepiga |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singepiga |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalipiga |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalipiga |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -mepiga |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshapiga |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -japiga |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kipiga |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipopiga |
| Consecutive | kapiga / positive subject concord + -kapiga |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kapige |
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:
** Applicative: -pigia
** Causative: -pigisha
** Passive: -pigwa (“be beaten up”)
** Reciprocal: -pigana (“fight”)
** Other formations: -pigilia
* Nominal derivations:
** mpiga
** pigo (“beating, blow”)
** upigaji (“hitting”)
* piga breki
* piga busu
* piga chafya
* piga chapa
* piga chenga
* piga dansi
* piga deki
* piga gitaa
* piga hodi
* piga kelele
* piga kengele
* piga kisi
* piga kofi
* piga kura
* piga magoti
* piga maji
* piga makofi
* piga marufuku
* piga mawe
* piga mbio
* piga mbizi
* piga miayo
* piga mluzi
* piga moto
* piga moyo konde
* piga mstari
* piga mswaki
* piga nduru
* piga ngumi
* piga pambaja
* piga pasi
* piga picha
* piga ramli
* piga simu
* piga sindano
* piga stori
* piga teke

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

#### Related terms

* kökspiga
* mjölkpiga
* pigroman

### References

* piga in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* piga in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* piga in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* piga in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

## 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

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /piˈɡaʔ/ [pɪˈɣaʔ]
* Rhymes: -aʔ
* Syllabification: pi‧ga

### Noun

pigâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜄ)
* 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

* pagi, gapi, ipag-

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From Malay pinjam.

### Verb

piga
* to borrow

## West Makian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpi.ɡa/

### Noun

piga
* dish, plate

### References

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