# unga
## English
### Noun

unga (plural ungas)
* Sarotherodon linnellii, a cichlid endemic to Lake Barombi Mbo in western Cameroon.
** 1993, Endangered Wildlife of the World, volume 10, page 1317:One species in particular, the fissi (Sarotherodon caroli), is close to the unga.

### See also

* unga bunga

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -uŋka

### Etymology 1

Related to the noun ungi (“hatchling”).

#### Verb

unga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative ungaði, supine ungað)
* to hatch
    Synonym: klekja

##### Derived terms

* ungun

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

unga
* indefinite accusative singular of ungi
* indefinite dative singular of ungi
* indefinite genitive singular of ungi
* indefinite accusative plural of ungi
* indefinite genitive plural of ungi

## Italian
### Verb

unga
* inflection of ungere:
** first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* ugna

## Japanese
### Romanization

unga
* Rōmaji transcription of うんが

## Macanese
### Alternative forms

* ung'a, (archaic) ung-a, ungha
* 'nga (unstressed aphetic form)

### Etymology

Ultimately from Old Galician-Portuguese ũa, possibly through an intermediate form from Indo-Portuguese. Compare Galician unha, pronounced identically.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈuŋa/

### Article

unga
* (indefinite) a, an, one
    abri'nga janela ― opening a window
    Dâ ung'a xicra di chá pa iouBring me a cup of tea

#### Usage notes

* Macanese does not have a definite article.

#### Derived terms

* acunga (“that”)
* agunga (“some”)
* cadunga (“every”)
* estunga (“this”)
* destunga (“of this; from that”)
* ninhunga (“no, none”)
* otrunga (“other, another”)
* qualunga (“which”)

### Numeral

unga
* one

#### Usage notes

* The spelling ung'a is preferred by Maquista Chapado (2004), however unga with no apostrophe seems to be dominant in literature, and is also the spelling preferred by the group Dóci Papiaçám di Macau.
* The apostrophe is used to prevent pronunciation as /ˈuŋɡa/, although some speakers nonetheless pronounce it as such.

### References

* https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm
* Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “unga”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 553

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Noun

unga m
* (nonstandard, dialectal) definite plural of unge

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

unga m
* (nonstandard, dialectal) definite plural of unge
** 1879, Hallvard Berg, Segner fraa Bygdom, Christiania: Samlaget, page 93:"No, Unga, kunne de slutte mæ Lesnae ei Stund o høyre paa me.""Now, kids, you can stop with the reading for a while and listen to me."

## Old Norse
### Adjective

unga
* positive degree strong feminine accusative singular of ungr
* positive degree strong masculine accusative plural of ungr
* positive degree weak masculine oblique singular of ungr
* positive degree weak feminine nominative singular of ungr
* positive degree weak neuter singular of ungr

## Sácata
### Etymology

Compare Chirino yungo.

### Noun

unga
* water

### References

* Willem F. H. Adelaar, The Languages of the Andes

## Sardinian
### Alternative forms

* ungra

### Etymology

Compare Italian unghia.

### Noun

unga
* fingernail

## Shona
### Etymology

From Swahili unga (“flour”).

### Noun

unga class 14
* gunpowder

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Bantu [Term?].

#### Noun

unga class XI (no plural)
* flour

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Bantu [Term?].

#### Verb

-unga (infinitive kuunga)
* to join, accompany
* (in reflexive forms) to subscribe
    Synonym: -shitariki
* to season, add seasoning

##### Conjugation

Conjugation of -unga :
| Positive present | -naunga |
| Subjunctive | -unge |
| Negative | -ungi |
| Imperative singular | unga |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kuunga |
| Negative | kutounga |
Imperatives :
| Singular | unga |
| Plural | ungeni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | huunga |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -liunga |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kuunga |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -taunga |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -taunga |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -siunge |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngeunga |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singeunga |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngaliunga |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singaliunga |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -meunga |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshaunga |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -jaunga |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kiunga |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipounga |
| Consecutive | kaunga / positive subject concord + -kaunga |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kaunge |
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: -ungia
** Causative: -ungisha
** Passive: -ungwa
** Reciprocal: -ungana
** Stative: -ungika
** Other formations: -unga mkono (“to support”)
* Nominal derivations:
** kiungo (“spice; joint”)
** uungaji mkono (“support”)
** uungaji

## Swedish
### Adjective

unga
* inflection of ung:
** definite singular
** plural

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ʔuˈŋaʔ/ [ʔʊˈŋaʔ]
* Rhymes: -aʔ
* Syllabification: u‧nga

### Noun

ungâ (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜅ)
* lowing or mooing of cattle

#### Derived terms

* pag-unga
* umunga

#### See also

* ungal

### Further reading

* “unga”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

### Anagrams

* uang

## West Albay Bikol
### Noun

unga
* question