ranga
English edit
Etymology edit
Extracted from (o)rang(utan), with -er suffix; in use since 1990s; to a certain extent popularised by the ABC television show Summer Heights High (2007).
Pronunciation edit
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ɹæŋə/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -æŋə
Noun edit
ranga (plural rangas)
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) An orange-haired or red-haired person.
- 2009, David Foster, Sons of the Rumour, unnumbered page:
- You′re looking down upon ‘rangas’ crossing at the traffic lights below. What a cheap but satisfying form of Dublin entertainment! With the sun out, the redheads of Dublin glow like copper wire.
- 2010, Mungo MacCallum, Punch & Judy: The Double Disillusion Election of 2010, Large Print 16pt Edition, page ii,
- Indeed, Julia Eileen Gillard may not even be the country′s first ranga prime minister; since all the old ones appear only in black and white, we can′t tell.
- 2010, Katrina Nannestad, Red Dirt Diary, HarperCollins Australia, unnumbered page,
- Fez′s resolutions: […]
- 3. I will not call Blue ‘Ranga Girl’.
- 2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin, published 2018, page 183:
- Joy and Lydia and Izzy despised the rest of the girls, from their plucked little threesome, disgusted by Yolanda's hairy calves, the faint down over a lip, Verla's ranga armpits.
- 2018, Aussie Disney (YouTube), Aussie Incredibles:
- SID: Yeah, all my friends hate me, I don't know why. MR. INCREDIBLE: Maybe it's because you're a fucking ranga you cockhead. SID: What the fuck did you just say, cunt? MR. INCREDIBLE: I said; ranga. SID: I am not a ranga!
Usage notes edit
Sometimes used as a nickname or epithet.
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Sanskrit रङ्ग (raṅga, “amusement, diversion, mirth”).
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ránga
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Icelandic edit
Noun edit
ranga f (genitive singular röngu, no plural)
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ranga
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Rang. Doublet of ring and rynek.
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Noun edit
ranga f
- (military) rank
- 2014 July 6, Jędrzej Bielecki, Piotr Gursztyn, Monika Kruszewska-Mikucka, Olgierd Kwiatkowski, Kinga Olszewska, “Usadzenie przy stole podczas podróży służbowej pokazuje miejsce w szeregu”, in Rzeczpospolita[1], archived from the original on 2022-05-15:
- Nawet w sytuacji, kiedy gość jest znacznie wyższy rangą od gospodarza, nadal osoba przyjmująca delegację wita się jako pierwsza.
- Even in a situation where the guest is much higher in rank than the host, the person receiving the delegation is still greeted as the first.
- weight, importance
- Synonym: doniosłość
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Declension of ranga
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Verb edit
ranga
- inflection of rangar: