# miga
## Cebuano
### Etymology

Initial clipping of amiga.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: mi‧ga

### Noun

miga
* a female friend
* an address to a female friend; a friendly placeholder name for a person one does not know

## Galician
### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin mīca (“crumb”), from Proto-Italic *smīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *smeyg- (“small, thin, delicate”). Compare the borrowed doublet mica. Cognate with Portuguese miga and Spanish miga.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmiɣa̝/

#### Noun

miga f (plural migas)
* crumb (small piece)
    Synonyms: migalla, fragulla, faragulla, miaxón, molo, mincalla, magoto
* crumb (the soft internal portion of bread)
    Synonyms: miolo, rafa
* a trifle; a little
    Synonyms: migalla, lisca, nisquiño, chinca
    Cunha miguiña de sorte aínda chegaremos a tempo. ― With a little luck we'll be arriving just in time.
* a little time
    Marchamos daquí a unha miga. ― We are leaving in a moment.

##### Derived terms

* migalla
* migar
* nin miga

#### References

* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “miga”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “miga”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “miga”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

miga
* inflection of migar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɪːɣa/
    Rhymes: -ɪːɣa

### Noun

miga f (genitive singular migu, nominative plural migur)
* (vulgar) the act of pissing
* (vulgar) piss, urine

#### Declension
## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* mige (e and split infinitives)

### Etymology

From Old Norse míga, from Proto-Germanic *mīganą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃méyǵʰeti, from the root *h₃meyǵʰ- (“to urinate”).

### Verb

miga (present tense mig, past tense meig, supine mige, past participle migen, present participle migande, imperative mig)
* (ambitransitive, mildly vulgar) to piss
    Synonyms: urinera, lata vatn, pissa, tissa

#### Derived terms

* mighus (“horse foreskin”)

### Noun

miga n
* definite plural of mig

### References

* “miga” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀫𑀺𑀕 (Brahmi script)
* मिग (Devanagari script)
* মিগ (Bengali script)
* මිග (Sinhalese script)
* မိဂ or မိၷ (Burmese script)
* มิค or มิคะ (Thai script)
* ᨾᩥᨣ (Tai Tham script)
* ມິຄ or ມິຄະ (Lao script)
* មិគ (Khmer script)
* 𑄟𑄨𑄉 (Chakma script)

### Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit मृग (mṛga, “wild beast”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mr̥gás.

### Noun

miga m
* beast
* quadruped
* deer

#### Declension
## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmi.ɡa/
* Rhymes: -iɡa
* Syllabification: mi‧ga

### Verb

miga
* third-person singular present of migać

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmi.ɡɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmi.ɡɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈmi.ɡa/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmi.ɡɐ/ [ˈmi.ɣɐ]
* Hyphenation: mi‧ga

### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese miga, from Latin mīca (“crumb”), from Proto-Italic *smīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *smeyg- (“small, thin, delicate”). Compare the borrowed doublet mica.

#### Noun

miga f (plural migas)
* crumb (small piece of bread, biscuit, cake, etc)
    Synonym: migalha
* (in the plural, cooking) a traditional Iberian dish consisting of leftover bread and various ingredients

### Etymology 2

Clipping of amiga (“female friend”).

#### Noun

miga f (plural migas, masculine migo, masculine plural migos)
* (endearing, chiefly women's speech) female friend

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

miga (Cyrillic spelling мига)
* genitive singular of mig

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmiɡa/ [ˈmi.ɣ̞a]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -iɡa
* Syllabification: mi‧ga

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish miga, from Latin mīca (“crumb”), from Proto-Italic *smīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *smeyg- (“small, thin, delicate”). Compare the borrowed doublet mica. Cognate with English mica.

#### Noun

miga f (plural migas)
* crumb (small piece which breaks off from baked food)
    Synonym: migaja
* essence, core (most significant feature of something)
* crumb, bit (small amount)

##### Derived terms

* desmigajar
* hacer buenas migas
* migaja
* migajón
* tener su miga

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

miga
* inflection of migar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “miga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10