Alternative forms

• punga

Etymology

Borrowed from MāoriCategory:English terms borrowed from Māori#PONGACategory:English terms derived from Māori#PONGA ponga.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɒŋə/Category:English 2-syllable words#PONGACategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PONGA

Noun

ponga (plural pongas)Category:English lemmas#PONGACategory:English nouns#PONGACategory:English countable nouns#PONGACategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PONGACategory:Pages with entries#PONGACategory:Pages with 4 entries#PONGA

1. A medium-sized tree fern endemic to New Zealand, of species Alsophila tricolorCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Alsophila%20tricolor (syns .Alsophila dealbataCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Alsophila%20dealbata, Cyathea dealbataCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Cyathea%20dealbata et al.).
   • 1972, James K. Baxter, ‘He Waiata mo Te Kare’, Selected Poems, Te Herenga Waka University Press 2023, p. 265:

     Hilltop behind hilltop, / A mile of green pungas / In the grey afternoon / Bow their heads to the slanting spears of rain.

   • 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 232:

     Ponga logs tended to be used vertically for house walls on the mainland and horizontally (a style known as wakawaka) on the Chatham Islands.

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Anagrams

• go nap

Verb

pongaCategory:Italian non-lemma forms#PONGACategory:Italian verb forms#PONGACategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#PONGACategory:Pages with entries#PONGACategory:Pages with 4 entries#PONGA

1. inflection of porre:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Noun

pongaCategory:Māori lemmas#PONACategory:Māori nouns#PONACategory:Māori entries with incorrect language header#PONACategory:Pages with entries#PONGACategory:Pages with 4 entries#PONGA

1. silver fern (Alsophila dealbataCategory:Entries using missing taxonomic name (species)#Alsophila%20dealbata)

   Synonym: kaponga

References

• Biggs, Bruce [Grandison] (1990), English–Maori, Maori–English Dictionary‎, Auckland University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, EBSCOhost edsebk, Goodreads, Google Books, Library Thing, Nexus/STC, page 123
• Williams, William (1852), “ponga”, in A Dictionary of the New Zealand Language, and a Concise Grammar; to Which is Added a Selection of Colloquial Sentences, 2nd edition, London: Williams and Norgate, page 124: “Pónga, s. A fern tree. (Cyathea dealbata.)”

Verb

pongaCategory:Spanish non-lemma forms#PONGACategory:Spanish verb forms#PONGACategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#PONGACategory:Pages with entries#PONGACategory:Pages with 4 entries#PONGA

1. inflection of poner:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative