# duga
## Bikol Central
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈduɡaʔ/ [ˈd̪u.ɡaʔ]
* Hyphenation: du‧ga

### Noun

dugà (Basahan spelling ᜇᜓᜄ)
* nectar
    Synonym: tagok
* sap
    Synonym: pulot

## Cebuano
### Noun

duga
* juice, nectar, sap
* (slang) sperm, semen

## Faroese
### Etymology

From Old Norse duga (“to help, to suffice”), from Proto-Germanic *duganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewgʰ- (“to produce”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtuːwa/
* Rhymes: -uːwa

### Verb

duga (third person singular past indicative dugdi, supine dugað)
* to know how to
    Tey duga føroyskt.They can speak Faroese.

#### Conjugation

$^1$Only the past participle being declined.

### References

* ↑ Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
* ↑ W. B. Lockwood (1977) “p. 152”, in An Introduction to Modern Faroese, 3rd printing edition, Tórshavn: Føroya Skúlabókagrunnur

### Further reading

"duga" at Sprotin.fo

## Higaonon
### Etymology

Akin to Cebuano duga.

### Noun

duga
* honey

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse duga (“to help, to suffice”), from Proto-Germanic *duganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewgʰ- (“to produce”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtʏːɣa/
    Rhymes: -ʏːɣa

### Verb

duga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative dugði, supine dugað) or duga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative dugaði, supine dugað)
* to suffice, to be enough, to do the trick
    Synonym: nægja
    Þetta dugir mér.This is enough for me.
    Mig vantar blað.. Þetta umslag dugar alveg.I need a piece of paper.. This old envelope will do the trick!
* to be fit

#### Derived terms

* duga til (“to be good for”)
* duga eða drepast (“to do or die”)
* nú er að duga eða drepast

### References

* ↑ Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

## Indonesian
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Verb

duga (used in the form menduga)
* to gauge. (clarification of this definition is needed)
* to guess

### Further reading

* “duga” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Malay
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /duɡa/
* Rhymes: -uɡa

### Verb

duga (Jawi spelling ندوݢ)
* to guess
    Synonyms: agak, sangka, teka
* to measure or gauge the depth of a body of water
    Synonyms: ajuk, ukur
* to test
    Synonyms: ukur, uji

#### Derived terms

* batu duga
* diduga
* dugaan
* menduga
* penduga
* pendugaan
* temu duga
* terduga

#### Descendants

* Indonesian: duga

### Further reading

* “duga” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* duge

### Etymology

From Old Norse duga.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dʉːɡa/

### Verb

duga (present tense duger, past tense dugde, past participle dugt/dugd, passive infinitive dugast, present participle dugande, imperative dug)
* help, be useful; be good enough; work
    Dette duger ikkje. Me lyt freista noko anna.This doesn't work. We'll have to try something else.
* be skilled enough
    Er du viss på at dei duger til jobben?Are you sure that they are skilled enough for the job?

### References

* “duga” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *duganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰedʰówgʰe, from the root *dʰewgʰ- (“to produce”).

### Verb

duga (singular past indicative dugði, plural past indicative dugðu, past participle dugat)
* to help, aid
* to do, suffice
    hefir oss þó dugat þessi átrúnaðrbut this faith has served us well
    fátt er svá illt at einugi dugifew things are utterly useless
    mun þér eigi þat duga at sofa hérit will not do (is not safe) for thee to sleep here
* to show prowess, do good service
    dugði hverr sem hann máttieveryone did his best
* to suffice, be strong enough
    ef vitni dugaif the witness fail not

#### Derived terms

* dugnaðr m

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: duga
* Faroese: duga
* Norwegian:
** Norwegian Bokmål: duge
** Norwegian Nynorsk: duga, duge
* Old Swedish: dugha, dogha
** Swedish: duga
* Old Danish: dughæ
** Danish: du

### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “duga”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

## Polish
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* (Greater Poland):
** (Kuyavia) IPA: /ˈdu.ɡa/
* (Lesser Poland):
** (Kielce) IPA: /ˈdu.ɡa/

### Noun

duga f
* (Kuyavia) Synonym of dźwig
    wziąć na dugę (Kujawy) ― to lift
** (Kielce, agriculture) crane or lift for lifting bales of hay onto a heap

#### Derived terms

* dugować impf

### Further reading

* Oskar Kolberg (1867) “dugować”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 270
* Jan Łoś (1886) “duga”, in “Gwara opoczyńska. Studium dialektologiczne”, in Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności (1), volume 11, page 183

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dǫga.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dǔːɡa/

#### Noun

dúga f (Cyrillic spelling ду́га)
* rainbow

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

duga
* inflection of dug:
** feminine nominative/vocative singular
** indefinite masculine/neuter genitive singular
** indefinite animate masculine accusative singular
** neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural

#### Noun

duga
* genitive singular of dug

## Sicilian
### Alternative forms

* dua, duva

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin doga. Compare Italian doga. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from Latin -ŏ-?”)

### Noun

duga f (plural dughi)
* stave (narrow strip of wood forming barrels, buckets, etc.)

#### Descendants

* → Maltese: dugħ

### References

* AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1327: “la doga” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
* Traina, Antonino (1868) “duga e dua”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 1429
* Pasqualino (c. 1790) “duga”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 2, page 59

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Swedish dugha, from Old Norse duga, from Proto-Germanic *duganą. The (formerly) colloquial strong declension mirrors the declensions of words like suga and ljuga.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

duga (present duger, preterite dugde or dög, supine dugt or dugit, imperative dug)
* suffice, be good (or skilled) enough; be acceptable; be useful for
    Om den dög åt din syster, så duger den åt dig.If it was good enough for your sister, then it'll be good enough for you.
    Den här duger ingenting till.This is good for nothing.

#### Conjugation

$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.
$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

#### Related terms

* dugande
* som heter duga

### Further reading

* duga in Svensk ordbok.

## Ternate
### Adverb

duga
* only, merely

#### Synonyms

* cuma

## Venda
### Verb

duga
* to burn