Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duˈɡaʔ/ [d̪ʊˈɡaʔ]Category:Cebuano terms with IPA pronunciation#DUGA
• Hyphenation: du‧ga

Noun

dugâ (Badlit spelling ᜇᜓᜄ)Category:Cebuano lemmas#DUGACategory:Cebuano nouns#DUGACategory:Cebuano terms with missing Badlit script entries#DUGACategory:Cebuano terms with Badlit script#DUGACategory:Cebuano entries with incorrect language header#DUGACategory:Pages with entries#DUGACategory:Pages with 15 entries#DUGA

1. juice, nectar, sap
2. (slangCategory:Cebuano slang#DUGA) sperm, semen

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈduɡaʔ/ [ˈd̪u.ɡaʔ]Category:Central Bikol terms with IPA pronunciation#DUGA
• Hyphenation: du‧ga

Noun

dugà (Basahan spelling ᜇᜓᜄ)Category:Central Bikol lemmas#DUGACategory:Central Bikol nouns#DUGACategory:Central Bikol terms with missing Basahan script entries#DUGACategory:Central Bikol terms with Basahan script#DUGACategory:Central Bikol entries with incorrect language header#DUGACategory:Pages with entries#DUGACategory:Pages with 15 entries#DUGA

1. nectar

   Synonym: tagok

2. sap

   Synonym: pulot

Etymology

From Old NorseCategory:Faroese terms inherited from Old Norse#DUGACategory:Faroese terms derived from Old Norse#DUGA duga (“to help, to suffice”), from Proto-GermanicCategory:Faroese terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#DUGACategory:Faroese terms derived from Proto-Germanic#DUGA *duganą, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Faroese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#DUGA *dʰewgʰ- (“to produce”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuːwa/Category:Faroese terms with IPA pronunciation#DUGA
• Rhymes: -uːwaCategory:Rhymes:Faroese/uːwa#DUGA

Verb

duga (third person singular past indicative dugdi, supine dugað)Category:Faroese lemmas#DUGACategory:Faroese verbs#DUGACategory:Faroese entries with incorrect language header#DUGACategory:Pages with entries#DUGACategory:Pages with 15 entries#DUGA

1. to know how to

   Tey duga føroyskt.^[2]

   They can speak Faroese.

   Category:Faroese terms with usage examples#DUGA

References

Further reading

"duga" at Sprotin.fo

Etymology

Akin to Cebuano duga.

Noun

dugaCategory:Higaonon lemmas#DUGACategory:Higaonon nouns#DUGACategory:Higaonon entries with incorrect language header#DUGACategory:Pages with entries#DUGACategory:Pages with 15 entries#DUGA

1. honey

Etymology

From Old NorseCategory:Icelandic terms inherited from Old Norse#DUGACategory:Icelandic terms derived from Old Norse#DUGA duga (“to help, to suffice”), from Proto-GermanicCategory:Icelandic terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#DUGACategory:Icelandic terms derived from Proto-Germanic#DUGA *duganą, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Icelandic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#DUGA *dʰewgʰ- (“to produce”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʏːɣa/Category:Icelandic 2-syllable words#DUGACategory:Icelandic terms with IPA pronunciation#DUGA

  Rhymes: -ʏːɣaCategory:Rhymes:Icelandic/ʏːɣa#DUGACategory:Rhymes:Icelandic/ʏːɣa/2 syllables#DUGA

Verb

duga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative dugði, supine dugað)Category:Icelandic lemmas#DUGACategory:Icelandic verbs#DUGACategory:Icelandic weak verbs#DUGACategory:Icelandic entries with incorrect language header#DUGACategory:Pages with entries#DUGACategory:Pages with 15 entries#DUGA or
duga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative dugaði, supine dugað)Category:Icelandic lemmas#DUGACategory:Icelandic verbs#DUGACategory:Icelandic weak verbs#DUGACategory:Icelandic entries with incorrect language header#DUGACategory:Pages with entries#DUGACategory:Pages with 15 entries#DUGA

1. to suffice, to be enough, to do the trick

   Synonym: nægja

   Þetta dugir mér.

   This is enough for me.

   Category:Icelandic terms with usage examples#DUGA

   Mig vantar blað.. Þetta umslag dugar alveg.

   I need a piece of paper.. This old envelope will do the trick!

   Category:Icelandic terms with usage examples#DUGA

2. to be fit

References

Etymology

Inherited from MalayCategory:Indonesian terms inherited from Malay#DUGACategory:Indonesian terms derived from Malay#DUGA duga. Probably from SanskritCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Sanskrit#DUGA दृग (dṛga, “to see”) or SanskritCategory:Indonesian terms derived from Sanskrit#DUGA दूर (dūra, “distant, far, remote”). Doublet of duraCategory:Indonesian doublets#DUGA.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈduɡa/ [ˈdu.ɡa]Category:Indonesian 2-syllable words#DUGACategory:Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation#DUGA
• Rhymes: -uɡaCategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/uɡa#DUGACategory:Rhymes:Indonesian/uɡa/2 syllables#DUGA
• Syllabification: du‧ga

Verb

dugaCategory:Indonesian lemmas#DUGACategory:Indonesian verbs#DUGACategory:Indonesian entries with incorrect language header#DUGACategory:Pages with entries#DUGACategory:Pages with 15 entries#DUGA

1. to gauge (clarification of this definition is needed)Category:Requests for clarification of definitions in Indonesian entries#DUGA
2. to guess

Further reading

• “duga”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Etymology

Probably from SanskritCategory:Malay terms borrowed from Sanskrit#DUGACategory:Malay terms derived from Sanskrit#DUGA दृग (dṛga, “to see”) or SanskritCategory:Malay terms borrowed from Sanskrit#DUGACategory:Malay terms derived from Sanskrit#DUGA दूर (dūra, “distant, far, remote”). Doublet of duraCategory:Malay doublets#DUGA.

Pronunciation

• (schwa-variety) IPA^(key): /ˈduɡə/ [ˈdu.ɡə]Category:Malay 2-syllable words#DUGACategory:Malay terms with IPA pronunciation#DUGA
  • Rhymes: -ɡə, -əCategory:Rhymes:Malay/ɡə#DUGACategory:Rhymes:Malay/ɡə/2 syllables#DUGACategory:Rhymes:Malay/ə#DUGACategory:Rhymes:Malay/ə/2 syllables#DUGA
• (/a/-variety, Standard Literary) IPA^(key): /ˈduɡa/ [ˈdu.ɡa]Category:Malay 2-syllable words#DUGACategory:Malay terms with IPA pronunciation#DUGA
  • Rhymes: -ɡa, -aCategory:Rhymes:Malay/ɡa#DUGACategory:Rhymes:Malay/ɡa/2 syllables#DUGACategory:Rhymes:Malay/a#DUGACategory:Rhymes:Malay/a/2 syllables#DUGA
• Hyphenation: du‧ga

Verb

duga (Jawi spelling دوݢ, active menduga, third-person passive diduga)Category:Malay lemmas#DUGACategory:Malay verbs#DUGACategory:Malay entries with incorrect language header#DUGACategory:Pages with entries#DUGACategory:Pages with 15 entries#DUGA

1. to guess

   Synonyms: agak, sangka, teka

2. to measure or gauge the depth of a body of water

   Synonyms: ajuk, ukur

3. to test

   Synonyms: ukur, uji

Further reading

• "duga" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Alternative forms

• duge

Etymology

From Old NorseCategory:Norwegian Nynorsk terms inherited from Old Norse#DUGACategory:Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse#DUGA duga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʉːɡa/Category:Norwegian Nynorsk terms with IPA pronunciation#DUGA

Verb

duga (present tense duger, past tense dugde, past participle dugt/dugd, passive infinitive dugast, present participle dugande, imperative dug)Category:Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas#DUGACategory:Norwegian Nynorsk verbs#DUGACategory:Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header#DUGACategory:Pages with entries#DUGACategory:Pages with 15 entries#DUGACategory:Norwegian Nynorsk weak verbs

1. help, be useful; be good enough; work

   Dette duger ikkje. Me lyt freista noko anna.

   This doesn't work. We'll have to try something else.

   Category:Norwegian Nynorsk terms with usage examples#DUGA

2. be skilled enough

   Er du viss på at dei duger til jobben?

   Are you sure that they are skilled enough for the job?

   Category:Norwegian Nynorsk terms with usage examples#DUGA

References

• “duga” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Etymology

From Proto-GermanicCategory:Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#DUGACategory:Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Germanic#DUGA *duganą, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Old Norse terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#DUGACategory:Old Norse terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#DUGA *dʰedʰówgʰe, from the root *dʰewgʰ- (“to produce”).

Verb

duga (singular past indicative dugði, plural past indicative dugðu, past participle dugat)Category:Old Norse lemmas#DUGACategory:Old Norse verbs#DUGACategory:Old Norse entries with incorrect language header#DUGACategory:Pages with entries#DUGACategory:Pages with 15 entries#DUGA

1. to help, aid
2. to do, suffice

   hefir oss þó dugat þessi átrúnaðr

   but this faith has served us well

   Category:Old Norse terms with usage examples#DUGA

   fátt er svá illt at einugi dugi

   few things are utterly useless

   Category:Old Norse terms with usage examples#DUGA

   mun þér eigi þat duga at sofa hér

   it will not do (is not safe) for thee to sleep here

   Category:Old Norse terms with usage examples#DUGA

3. to show prowess, do good service

   dugði hverr sem hann mátti

   everyone did his best

   Category:Old Norse terms with usage examples#DUGA

4. to suffice, be strong enough

   ef vitni duga

   if the witness fail not

   Category:Old Norse terms with usage examples#DUGA

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “duga”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Category:Requests for etymologies in Polish entries#DUGA

Pronunciation

• (Greater Poland):
  • (KuyaviaCategory:Kuyavian Polish#DUGA) IPA^(key): [ˈdu.ɡa]Category:Polish terms with IPA pronunciation#DUGA
• (Lesser Poland):
  • (KielceCategory:Kielce Polish#DUGA) IPA^(key): [ˈdu.ɡa]Category:Polish terms with IPA pronunciation#DUGA

• Audio:

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  Category:Polish terms with audio pronunciation#DUGA

Noun

duga fCategory:Polish lemmas#DUGACategory:Polish nouns#DUGACategory:Polish entries with incorrect language header#DUGACategory:Polish feminine nouns#DUGACategory:Pages with entries#DUGACategory:Pages with 15 entries#DUGA

1. (KuyaviaCategory:Kuyavian Polish#DUGA) synonym of dźwig

   wziąć na dugę (Kujawy) ― to liftCategory:Polish terms with collocations#DUGA

   1. (KielceCategory:Kielce Polish#DUGA, agricultureCategory:pl:Agriculture#DUGA) crane or lift for lifting bales of hay onto a heap

Further reading

• Oskar Kolberg (1867), “dugować”, in Dzieła wszystkie: Kujawy (in Polish), page 270
• Jan Łoś (1886), “duga”, in “Gwara opoczyńska. Studium dialektologiczne”, in Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności (1), volume 11, page 183

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-SlavicCategory:Serbo-Croatian terms inherited from Proto-Slavic#DUGACategory:Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Proto-Slavic#DUGA *dǫga.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

• dua, duva

Etymology

Inherited from LatinCategory:Sicilian terms inherited from Latin#DUGACategory:Sicilian terms derived from Latin#DUGA doga. Compare Italian doga. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from Latin -ŏ-?”)Category:Requests for etymologies in Sicilian entries#DUGA

Noun

duga f (plural dughi)Category:Sicilian lemmas#DUGACategory:Sicilian nouns#DUGACategory:Sicilian entries with incorrect language header#DUGACategory:Sicilian feminine nouns#DUGACategory:Pages with entries#DUGACategory:Pages with 15 entries#DUGA

1. stave (narrow strip of wood forming barrels, buckets, etc.)

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1327: “la doga” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Traina, Antonino (1868), “duga e dua”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 1429
• Pasqualino (c. 1790), “duga”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 2, page 59

Etymology

From Old SwedishCategory:Swedish terms inherited from Old Swedish#DUGACategory:Swedish terms derived from Old Swedish#DUGA dugha, from Old NorseCategory:Swedish terms inherited from Old Norse#DUGACategory:Swedish terms derived from Old Norse#DUGA duga, from Proto-GermanicCategory:Swedish terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#DUGACategory:Swedish terms derived from Proto-Germanic#DUGA *duganą. The (formerly) colloquial strong declension mirrors the declensions of words like suga and ljuga.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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  Category:Swedish terms with audio pronunciation#DUGA

Verb

duga (present duger, preterite dög or dugde, supine dugit or dugt, imperative dug)Category:Swedish lemmas#DUGACategory:Swedish verbs#DUGACategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#DUGACategory:Pages with entries#DUGACategory:Pages with 15 entries#DUGA

1. to be good enough; to suffice, to be acceptable, etc.

   Om den dög åt din syster så duger den åt dig

   If it was good enough for your sister, it is good enough for you

   Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#DUGA

   Oroa dig inte. Du duger som du är.

   Don't worry. You are good enough the way you are.

   Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#DUGA

   Hon hade dåligt självförtroende. Tyckte inte att hon dög.

   She had low self-esteem. Didn't think she was good enough.

   Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#DUGA

   – Behöver jag göra någonting mer? – Nej då, det duger.

   – Do I need to do anything more? – No, that's enough [suffices]. [The "då" affirms the "nej," softening the tone a bit, like "nah"]

   Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#DUGA

   Han duger ingenting till

   He's a good-for-nothing ["Han duger till ingenting" would be less literary except "duga ingenting till" has become idiomatic]

   Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#DUGA

   Han duger inte mycket till

   He's not good for much [same as above]

   Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#DUGA

   • 1968, Cornelis Vreeswijk, “Somliga går med trasiga skor [Some people walk in tattered shoes]”, in Tio vackra visor och Personliga Person [Ten beautiful songs and Personal Person]‎:

     Jag är en tvivelaktig figur. Duger ej mycket till. Bakom ett hörn står döden på lur. Han tar mig när han vill.

     I'm a dubious figure. Not good for much. Behind a corner, Death lurks. He'll take me whenever he wants.

     Category:Swedish terms with quotations#DUGA

References

• “duga”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “duga”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Adverb

dugaCategory:Ternate lemmas#DUGACategory:Ternate adverbs#DUGACategory:Ternate entries with incorrect language header#DUGACategory:Pages with entries#DUGACategory:Pages with 15 entries#DUGA

1. only, merely

Verb

dugaCategory:Venda lemmas#DUGACategory:Venda verbs#DUGACategory:Venda entries with incorrect language header#DUGACategory:Pages with entries#DUGACategory:Pages with 15 entries#DUGA

1. to burn