pinga

See also: pingga

Galician

Pingas

Etymology

Back-formation from pingar (“to drop”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiŋɡa̝/

Noun

pinga f (plural pingas)

1. drop, droplet

   Synonym: gota

2. (figuratively) small portion
   • 1805, anonymous, Representación dos veciños da Pontedeva (in Ramón Mariño Paz, 2008, Papés d'emprenta condenada. A escrita galega entre 1797 e 1846, page 21-23):

     non pode querer ó noso Rey que lle paguemos un carto polo neto do viño, que non podemos vender á ochavo. Os probes non comemos mais ca un pouco de pan, ou bróa ruin, e unhas berzas sin adubo. Si nos quita a pinga do viño, ¿que forza emos ter para traballar as terras?

     our King can't pretend that we pay a quarter by each pint of wine [we consume], when we can't even sell it for half a quarter. We the poor people eat but a little of bread, or bad black bread, and some greens without seasoning. If He takes this drop of wine, what strength we'll have left for working the lands?

   Synonyms: miga, pingo

Related terms

• pingar
• pingo

References

• “pingo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “pinga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “pinga” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pinga” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Italian

Verb

pinga

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of pingere
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of pingere
3. third-person singular present subjunctive of pingere
4. third-person singular imperative of pingere

Anagrams

• pigna

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Portuguese

Noun

pinga f (plural pingas)

1. drop (small amount of liquid)
2. sip (small mouthful of drink)
3. (Brazil, slang) cachaça

Synonyms

• (drop): pingo

Verb

pinga

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of pingar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of pingar

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpinɡa/, [ˈpĩŋɡa]

Noun

pinga f (plural pingas)

1. (Latin America, euphemistic) penis

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:pene.

Further reading

• “pinga” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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Swahili

Verb

pinga

1. obstruct

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Tagalog

Adjective

pingá

1. bellicose; warlike
2. quarrelsome

Synonyms

• (warlike): mapandigma, mandirigma
• (quarrelsome): palaaway, basagulero

Derived terms

• kapingahan

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English finger.

Noun

pinga

1. finger