miga
Cebuano[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Initial clipping of amiga.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: mi‧ga
Noun[edit]
miga
- a female friend
- an address to a female friend; a friendly placeholder name for a person one does not know
Galician[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin mīca (“crumb”), from Proto-Italic *smīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *smeyg- (“small, thin, delicate”). Compare the borrowed doublet mica. Cognate with Portuguese miga and Spanish miga.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
miga f (plural migas)
- crumb (small piece)
- crumb (the soft internal portion of bread)
- a trifle; a little
- a little time
- Marchamos daquí a unha miga. ― We are leaving in a moment.
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “miga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “miga” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “miga” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
miga
- inflection of migar:
Icelandic[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
miga f (genitive singular migu, nominative plural migur)
Declension[edit]
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- mige (e and split infinitives)
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse míga, from Proto-Germanic *mīganą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃méyǵʰeti, from the root *h₃meyǵʰ- (“to urinate”).
Verb[edit]
miga (present tense mig, past tense meig, supine mige, past participle migen, present participle migande, imperative mig)
- (transitive, intransitive, mildly vulgar) to piss
Derived terms[edit]
- mighus (“horse foreskin”)
Noun[edit]
miga n
References[edit]
- “miga” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Pali[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Sanskrit मृग (mṛga, “wild beast”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mr̥gás.
Noun[edit]
miga m
Declension[edit]
Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative (first) | migo | migā |
Accusative (second) | migaṃ | mige |
Instrumental (third) | migena | migehi or migebhi |
Dative (fourth) | migassa or migāya or migatthaṃ | migānaṃ |
Ablative (fifth) | migasmā or migamhā or migā | migehi or migebhi |
Genitive (sixth) | migassa | migānaṃ |
Locative (seventh) | migasmiṃ or migamhi or mige | migesu |
Vocative (calling) | miga | migā |
Polish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
miga
Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: mi‧ga
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old Galician-Portuguese miga, from Latin mīca (“crumb”), from Proto-Italic *smīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *smeyg- (“small, thin, delicate”). Compare the borrowed doublet mica.
Noun[edit]
miga f (plural migas)
- crumb (small piece of bread, biscuit, cake, etc)
- Synonym: migalha
- (in the plural, cooking) a traditional Iberian dish consisting of leftover bread and various ingredients
Etymology 2[edit]
Clipping of amiga (“female friend”).
Noun[edit]
miga f (plural migas)
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Noun[edit]
miga (Cyrillic spelling мига)
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Inherited from Old Spanish miga, from Latin mīca (“crumb”), from Proto-Italic *smīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *smeyg- (“small, thin, delicate”). Compare the borrowed doublet mica. Cognate with English mica.
Noun[edit]
miga f (plural migas)
- crumb (small piece which breaks off from baked food)
- Synonym: migaja
- essence, core (most significant feature of something)
- crumb, bit (small amount)
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
miga
- inflection of migar:
Further reading[edit]
- “miga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Cebuano lemmas
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- ceb:Female
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