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Inga

Inga

See also: inga, ingå, and Iŋgá

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.
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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.
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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.

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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

Singular
Indefinite
Nominative Inga
Accusative Ingu
Dative Ingu
Genitive Ingu

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

inga

inga

See also: ingå, Inga, and Iŋgá

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.

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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)

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

inga (plural ingák)

  1. pendulum

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative inga ingák
accusative ingát ingákat
dative ingának ingáknak
instrumental ingával ingákkal
causal-final ingáért ingákért
translative ingává ingákká
terminative ingáig ingákig
essive-formal ingaként ingákként
essive-modal
inessive ingában ingákban
superessive ingán ingákon
adessive ingánál ingáknál
illative ingába ingákba
sublative ingára ingákra
allative ingához ingákhoz
elative ingából ingákból
delative ingáról ingákról
ablative ingától ingáktól
Possessive forms of inga
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. ingám ingáim
2nd person sing. ingád ingáid
3rd person sing. ingája ingái
1st person plural ingánk ingáink
2nd person plural ingátok ingáitok
3rd person plural ingájuk ingáik

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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