zanga-zanga
Basque
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editReduplication of zanga (“gulp”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: zan‧ga-zan‧ga
Ideophone
editzanga-zanga
- drinking noisily
- 1931, Toribio Alzaga, Burruntziya (Auspoa Literatura; 29)[1], 2nd edition, Auspoa, published 1963, page 40:
- ¿Baxo erdiya ayek? ¡Bai zera! Upela oso-osorik atzaparretan artu ta ¡zanga, zanga! ustu arte.
- [Baxo erdia aiek? Bai zera! Upela oso-osorik atzaparretan artu ta zanga-zanga ustu arte.]
- Half a glass? No way! They would grab the whole barrel with their claws, and drink from it noisily until it was empty.
Further reading
edit- “zanga-zanga”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
- “zanga-zanga”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005