# danga
## Bambara
### Noun

danga
* a curse

### Verb

danga
* (transitive) to curse

## Bariai
### Noun

danga
* thing

### References

* Steve Gallagher, Peirce Baehr, Bariai Grammar Sketch (2005)

## Hausa
### Etymology

Compare Kanuri dángá (“cornstalk fence”), Chadian Arabic دنقاي (dangāy, “prison”), Lame daŋgai (“prison”), Dangaléat dyegruwa (“stone wall”), Sidamo danqara (“bar”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dán.ɡáː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [dáŋ.ɡáː]

### Noun

dangā f (plural dangōgī, possessed form dangar̃)
* cornstalk fence
    Synonym: darni

## Juba Arabic
### Etymology

Borrowed from a local language. Compare Bari daŋ, Dinka dhaŋ, Southwestern Dinka dhaŋ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdaŋa/, [ˈda.ŋa]

### Noun

danga
* bow

### References

* Ian Smith, Morris Timothy Ama (1985) A Dictionary of Juba Arabic & English‎, 1st edition, Juba: The Committee of The Juba Cheshire Home and Centre for Handicapped Children, page 129

## Latvian
### Etymology

* From Proto-Balto-Slavic *dangāˀ. For the cognates, see Lithuanian dangà.

### Noun

danga f (4th declension)
* (dialectal) corner

#### Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

#### Synonyms

* kakts, stūris

### References

* ↑ Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 114

## Lithuanian
### Etymology

* From Proto-Balto-Slavic *dangāˀ. Cognate with Latvian danga (“corner”), Serbo-Croatian ду́га/dúga (“rainbow”). See also dangùs (“sky”).

### Noun

dangà f (plural dañgos) stress pattern 4
* clothes
* something covering another thing; cover
    sniẽgo dangà - lying snow

#### Synonyms

* (clothes): apdaras, drabužis, rūbas
* (cover): apdangalas, uždanga

#### Related terms

* apdanga f, apdangalas m
* dangtis m
* padanga f
* priedanga f
* uždanga f
(Verb)
* dengti

### References

* 1 2 3 Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 114
* 1 2 “danga” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
* ↑ “danga” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN

## Minangkabau
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *dəŋər, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dəŋəʀ, from Proto-Austronesian *dəŋəʀ.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

danga
* to hear, to listen

### Further reading

* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*deŋeR”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish تمغا (damga), from Proto-Common Turkic *tamga.

### Noun

danga f (plural dangale)
* brand (on horses or cows)

#### Declension
## Silesian
### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

danga f
* Alternative form of dynga

### Further reading

* Barbara Podgórska, Adam Podgóski (2008) “danga”, in Słownik gwar śląskich [A dictionary of Silesian lects], Katowice: Wydawnictwo KOS, →ISBN, page 67