Translingual

Proper noun

Inga f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Fabaceae – small neotropical, tough-leaved, nitrogen-fixing trees and shrubs, many used as ornamentals.

Hypernyms

• (genus in Fabaceae): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I - clades; Fabales - order; Fabaceae - family; Mimosoideae - subfamily; Ingeae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus in Fabaceae): Inga vera - type species; for other species see Inga (Fabaceae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Derived terms

• Inga cinerea
• Inga salutaris
• Inga saman

Etymology 2

Inga sparsiciliella (Oecophoridae)

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Proper noun

Inga f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Oecophoridae – certain of the concealer moths.

Hypernyms

• (genus in Oecophoridae): Insecta - class; Dicondylia - clade; Pterygota - subclass; Metapterygota - clade; Neoptera - infraclass; Eumetabola, Endopterygota - clades; Panorpida - superorder; Amphiesmenoptera - clade; Lepidoptera - order; Glossata - suborder; Heteroneura - infraorder; Ditrysia - division; Tineina - section; Tineina - subsection; Gelechioidea - superfamily; Oecophoridae - family; Oecophorinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus in Fabaceae): Inga vera - type species; for other species see Inga (Fabaceae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• (genus in Oecophoridae): See Inga (Oecophoridae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse Inga.

Proper noun

Inga

1. A female given name.

Usage notes

• More common in Denmark in the form Inge.

Estonian

Etymology

From Old Norse Inga.

Proper noun

Inga

1. A female given name.

Related terms

• Inge, Ingel, Ingrid

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse Inga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪŋːka/

Proper noun

Inga f

1. A female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• son of Inga: Inguson
• daughter of Inga: Ingudóttir

Declension

German

Proper noun

Inga

1. A female given name, a variant of Inge.

Latvian

Etymology

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1827. From Old Norse Inga. Cognate to Danish and Swedish Inga.

Proper noun

Inga f

1. A female given name.

Related terms

• Ingrīda
• Inguna

References

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, ISBN 5-7966-0278-0
• Population Register of Latvia: Inga was the only given name of 12 588 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

Norwegian

Etymology

From Old Norse Inga. First recorded in Norway around 1200.

Proper noun

Inga

1. A female given name.

Related terms

• female given names: Ingebjørg, Ingeborg, Inger, Ingjerd, Ingrid, Ingunn, Ingvild
• male given names: Inge and its variants

Old Norse

Etymology

A short from of female compound names beginning with Ing-, Ingi-, ("the god Ing or Yngvi").

Proper noun

Inga f

1. A female given name.

Descendants

• Danish: Inga, Inge
• Norwegian: Inga
• Swedish: Inga

Slovak

Proper noun

Inga f

1. A pet form of the female given name Ingrida.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse Inga. Also recorded as a modern diminutive of Ingeborg and Ingrid.

Proper noun

Inga.

1. A female given name.

Related terms

• female given names: Ing, Ingalill, Ingeborg, Ingegerd, Ingegärd, Ingela, Inger, Ingrid, Ingvor
• male given names: Inge and its variants

References

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, ISBN 91-21-10937-0
• Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, ISBN 9119551622: 33 159 females with the given name Inga living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1920s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

English

Noun

inga ‎(plural ingas)

1. (botany) Any of the genus Inga of small tropical trees and shrubs.
   • 1838, The British cyclopaedia (page 605)

     Here are the mimosas, the ingas, the acacias, the maples, the beautiful ailantus, and the fine fruit tree, the mango.

   • 1989, National Research Council (U.S.), Lost crops of the Incas (page 279)

     Fruit trees such as ingas are underutilized in reforestation efforts.

See also

• inga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Inga (Fabaceae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

inga

1. first-person singular present indicative of ingaan (when using a subclause)
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of ingaan (when using a subclause)

Anagrams

• ga in

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈiŋɡɒ]
• Hyphenation: in‧ga

Noun

inga ‎(plural ingák)

1. pendulum

Declension

Derived terms

• ingázik

Japanese

Romanization

inga

1. rōmaji reading of いんが

Malay

Verb

inga

1. to be agape

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronoun

inga

1. feminine singular of ingen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronoun

inga

1. feminine singular of ingen

Swedish

Pronunciation

Pronoun

inga pl ‎(common singular ingen, neuter singular inget)

1. plural of ingen; no, nobody, nothing

   Det fanns inga ledtrådar som kunde lösa mysteriet

   There were no clues which could solve the mystery

   När jag kom hade inga andra kommit ännu

   As I came, no one else (literally: no others) had arrived yet