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English

Etymology

Affectionate corruption of orangutan; in use since mid-20th century (in modern times popularised by the ABC television show Summer Heights High (2007)).

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?æ??/
• Rhymes: -æ??

Noun

ranga (plural rangas)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) An orange-haired or red-haired person.
   • 2009, David Foster, Sons of the Rumour, unnumbered page,

     You?re looking down upon ‘rangas’ crossing at the traffic lights below. What a cheap but satisfying form of Dublin entertainment! With the sun out, the redheads of Dublin glow like copper wire.

   • 2010, Mungo MacCallum, Punch & Judy: The Double Disillusion Election of 2010, Large Print 16pt Edition, page ii,

     Indeed, Julia Eileen Gillard may not even be the country?s first ranga prime minister; since all the old ones appear only in black and white, we can?t tell.

   • 2010, Katrina Nannestad, Red Dirt Diary, HarperCollins Australia, unnumbered page,

     Fez?s resolutions: […]

     3. I will not call Blue ‘Ranga Girl’.

   • 2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin 2018, p. 183:

     Joy and Lydia and Izzy despised the rest of the girls, from their plucked little threesome, disgusted by Yolanda's hairy calves, the faint down over a lip, Verla's ranga armpits.

Usage notes

Sometimes used as a nickname or epithet.

See also

• Bluey

Anagrams

• Nagra, Ragan, argan, grana

Bikol Central

Noun

ranga

1. (dated) higher level of joy and contentment
2. endearment
3. comfort, solace, relief; comforting, consoling

Verb

ranga

1. to console or comfort or relieve someone with reassuring words.

Derived terms

• karangahan

Icelandic

Noun

ranga f (genitive singular röngu, no plural)

1. reverse side
2. wrong side

Declension

Irish

Noun

ranga

1. genitive singular of rang

Polish

Etymology

From German Rang, from French rang, from Old French renc, reng, ranc, rang, from Frankish *hring.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ran.?a/

Noun

ranga f

1. (military) rank
2. weight, importance

Declension

Further reading

• ranga in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• ranga in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Verb

ranga

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

Rapa Nui

Noun

ranga

1. war refugee, fugitive

Derived terms

• kohau ranga

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa???/

Etymology 1

From Swahili panga (“machete”).

Noun

panga (plural pangas)

1. (East Africa, South Africa) A large broad-bladed knife.
   • 1967, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, A Grain of Wheat, EAEP 2008, p. 77:

     She turned to the small basket she was carrying and took out a panga.

   • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 73:

     Charlie had told me what it had looked like immediately after the riots. Bodies hacked to pieces with pangas.

   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 690:

     I pleaded with them to lay down their arms, to take each other's hands in peace: ‘Take your guns, your knives and your pangas, and throw them into the sea!’

Translations

Etymology 2

Back-formation from the plural, from the stem of New Latin Pangasius (genus name), from Bengali ??????? (pa?ga?, “mud-coloured fish”), ultimately from Sanskrit ???? (pa?ka, “mud”).

Noun

panga (plural pangas)

1. Any of various edible freshwater fish of the genus Pangasius, native to southeast Asia, especially the iridescent shark, Pangasius hypophthalmus, now reclassified as Pangasianodon hypophthalmus.
2. A type of modest-sized, open, outboard-powered, fishing boat common throughout much of the developing world, including Central America, the Caribbean, parts of Africa, the Middle East, and much of Asia.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Spanish panga (“motorboat”).

Noun

panga (plural pangas)

1. A small inflatable motorboat used in Latin America.

Anagrams

• Pagan, pagan

Bikol Central

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /pa.??a/

Noun

panga

1. framework built on a boat over which the large, thick mat is placed so that it may serve as an awning

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /?pa.?a/

Noun

panga

1. mark that one places on a tree that one has sown with a root crop, so that one one else will cut the tree or work the field

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pa?nga

Noun

panga

1. a forked stick

Cuyunon

Noun

panga

1. (anatomy) jaw

Dutch

Etymology

Probably borrowed from English panga, from New Latin Pangasius, ultimately from Sanskrit ???? (pa?ka).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??.?a?/
• Hyphenation: pan?ga
• Rhymes: -???a?

Noun

panga m (plural panga's)

1. panga, pangasius, swai; fish of the genus Pangasius, esp. when used as food

   Synonym: pangasius

Derived terms

• pangafilet

Estonian

Noun

panga

1. genitive singular of pank

Ibaloi

Noun

panga

1. branch (of a tree)

Kankanaey

Noun

panga

1. branch (of a tree)

Karao

Noun

panga

1. branch (of a tree)

Kayapa Kallahan

Noun

panga

1. branch (of a tree)

Lubuagan Kalinga

Noun

panga

1. branch (of a tree)

Spanish

Noun

panga f (plural pangas)

1. (Latin America) panga (small inflatable motorboat used in Latin America)
2. (Spain) swai, iridescent shark (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus)
3. (zoology) torpedo scad (Pterogymnus laniarius)

Swahili

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p????/

Etymology 1

Noun

panga (n class, plural panga)

1. machete, panga (broad knife)

Related terms

• upanga

Etymology 2

Verb

-panga (infinitive kupanga)

1. to arrange, classify, plan, organize, set up

Conjugation

Derived terms

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -pangia
  • Causative: -pangisha
  • Passive: -pangwa (“to be arranged, to be assigned”), -pangiwa
  • Reciprocal: -pangana
  • Stative: -pangika

Tagalog

Noun

pangá

1. (anatomy) jaw; jawbone

Yogad

Noun

pangá

1. branch (of a tree)
2. (anatomy) (lower) jaw