# nganga
## Bikol Central
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ŋaŋa, from Proto-Austronesian *ŋaŋa.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: nga‧nga
* IPA: /ˈŋaŋa/ [ˈŋa.ŋa]
* IPA: /ŋaˈŋa/ [ŋaˈŋa]

### Noun

ngánga or ngangá
* gape, opening of the mouth

#### Derived terms

* inganga
* magnganga
* ngangahan
* panganga

## Bobongko
### Noun

nganga
* mouth

## French
### Etymology

From a Bantu language.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɡan.ɡa/

### Noun

nganga m (plural nganga)
* an African witch doctor or specialist in traditional medicine

## Kikuyu
### Etymology

Hinde (1904) records enganga as an equivalent of English guinea-fowl in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Kamba nganga and Swahili kanga etc. as its equivalents.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ᵑɡàᵑɡáꜜ/
    As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.
* (Kiambu)
   * (Limuru) As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including bũrũri (pl. mabũrũri), ikara, ikinya, itimũ, kanitha (pl. makanitha), kiugo, kĩhaato, maguta, mũgeka, mũkonyo, mũrata, mwana, mbembe, mbũri, nyaga, riitho, riũa, rũrĩmĩ (pl. nĩmĩ), ũhoro (pl. mohoro), and so on.

### Noun

nganga class 9/10 (plural nganga)
* guinea fowl

### References

* ↑ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 30–31. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
* ↑ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.
* “nganga” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
* Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, pp. 10, 33.

## Kituba
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀gàngà.

### Noun

nganga
* traditional healer

## Kongo
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀gàngà. Compare Swahili mganga.

### Noun

nganga
* witch doctor

## Lindu
### Noun

nganga
* (anatomy) mouth

## Lingala
### Noun

nganga
* priest

## Malay
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ŋaŋa/
* Rhymes: -ŋa, -a

### Verb

nganga
* to gape
* to open mouth

## Maori
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ŋa.ŋa/, [ŋɐ.ŋɐ]

### Noun

nganga
* hail
* stone of a fruit
* core of a boil
* shell or husk

## Nyunga
### Noun

nganga
* the sun

### References

* 1839, George Grey, Vocabulary of the Aboriginal Language of Western Australia (Perth gazette and Western Australian journal)

## Tagalog
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ŋaŋa (“open the mouth wide, gape; gaping; opening of a bubu fish trap, basket, etc.”), from Proto-Austronesian *ŋaŋa (“open the mouth”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ŋaˈŋa/ [ŋɐˈŋa]
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: nga‧nga

#### Noun

ngangá (Baybayin spelling ᜅᜅ)
* act of opening one's mouth
    Synonym: buka ng bibig
* (by extension) jaw drop

##### Derived terms

* inganga
* makanganga
* manganga
* mapanganga
* ngangahan
* ngangahin
* nganghan
* ngumanga
* pagnganga
* panganga

##### Related terms

* bunganga
* panga
* tunganga

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Philippine *ŋaqŋaq (“to chew betel”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈŋaŋaʔ/ [ˈŋaː.ŋɐʔ]
* Rhymes: -aŋaʔ
* Syllabification: nga‧nga

#### Noun

ngangà (Baybayin spelling ᜅᜅ)
* combination of betel nut, chewing tobacco, and a little lime wrapped in a betel leaf prepared for chewing
    Synonyms: hitso, mam-in

##### Derived terms

* kangangaan
* kanginangaan
* magnganga
* mapagnganga
* ngangain
* ngumanga
* pagngangain
* palanganga
* panganga
* pangangain
* sangnginangaan

##### See also

* buyo
* ikmo
* itmo
* mama
* samat

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ŋaˈŋaʔ/ [ŋɐˈŋaʔ]
* Rhymes: -aʔ
* Syllabification: nga‧nga

#### Noun

ngangâ (Baybayin spelling ᜅᜅ)
* (obsolete) name of the Baybayin letter ᜅ, corresponding to "nga"

#### See also

* nga

### Further reading

* “nganga”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 865.
* San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎, La Noble Villa de Pila
** page 9: “Abrir) Ng̃ang̃a (pc) la boca”
** page 408: “Mascar) Ng̃ang̃a (pp) buyo o otra coſa”
* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*ŋaŋa₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*ŋaqŋaq₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

### Anagrams

* ang-ang

## Tswana
### Verb

nganga
* to dispute, to argue

## Woiwurrung
### Alternative forms

* nang-ak

### Verb

nganga
* look

### References

* ↑ https://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/documents/alcv/partsofthebody.pdf
* ↑ https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/server/api/core/bitstreams/f4512721-7645-4722-90b8-168541d38240/content

### See also

* ngang-â-din (“saw”)
* nang-nak (“look”)