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miga

See also: migá, míga, and Miga

Cebuano

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Etymology

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Initial clipping of amiga.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: mi‧ga

Noun

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miga

  1. a female friend
  2. an address to a female friend; a friendly placeholder name for a person one does not know

Galician

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Etymology 1

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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

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Noun

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miga f (plural migas)

  1. crumb (small piece)
    Synonyms: migalla, fragulla, faragulla, miaxón, molo, mincalla, magoto
  2. crumb (the soft internal portion of bread)
    Synonyms: miolo, rafa
  3. a trifle; a little
    Synonyms: migalla, lisca, nisquiño, chinca
    Cunha miguiña de sorte aínda chegaremos a tempo. ― With a little luck we'll be arriving just in time.
  4. a little time
    Marchamos daquí a unha miga. ― We are leaving in a moment.
Derived terms
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References

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Etymology 2

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Verb

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miga

  1. inflection of migar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Icelandic

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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miga f (genitive singular migu, nominative plural migur)

  1. (vulgar) the act of pissing
  2. (vulgar) piss, urine

Declension

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    Declension of miga
f-w1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative miga migan migur migurnar
accusative migu miguna migur migurnar
dative migu migunni migum migunum
genitive migu migunnar miga miganna

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

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  • mige (e and split infinitives)

Etymology

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From Old Norse míga, from Proto-Germanic *mīganą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃méyǵʰeti, from the root *h₃meyǵʰ- (“to urinate”).

Verb

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miga (present tense mig, past tense meig, supine mige, past participle migen, present participle migande, imperative mig)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, mildly vulgar) to piss
    Synonyms: urinera, lata vatn, pissa, tissa

Derived terms

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Noun

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miga n

  1. definite plural of mig

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Pali

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Etymology

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Inherited from Sanskrit मृग (mṛga, “wild beast”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mr̥gás.

Noun

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miga m

  1. beast
  2. quadruped
  3. deer

Declension

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Declension table of "miga" (masculine)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)migomigā
Accusative (second)migaṃmige
Instrumental (third)migenamigehi or migebhi
Dative (fourth)migassa or migāya or migatthaṃmigānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)migasmā or migamhā or migāmigehi or migebhi
Genitive (sixth)migassamigānaṃ
Locative (seventh)migasmiṃ or migamhi or migemigesu
Vocative (calling)migamigā

Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmi.ɡa/
  • Rhymes: -iɡa
  • Syllabification: mi‧ga

Verb

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miga

  1. third-person singular present of migać

Portuguese

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migas (2)

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: mi‧ga

Etymology 1

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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

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miga f (plural migas)

  1. crumb (small piece of bread, biscuit, cake, etc)
    Synonym: migalha
  2. (in the plural, cooking) a traditional Iberian dish consisting of leftover bread and various ingredients

Etymology 2

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Clipping of amiga (“female friend”).

Noun

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miga f (plural migas, masculine migo, masculine plural migos)

  1. (endearing, chiefly women's speech) female friend

Serbo-Croatian

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Noun

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miga (Cyrillic spelling мига)

  1. genitive singular of mig

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmiɡa/ [ˈmi.ɣ̞a]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -iɡa
  • Syllabification: mi‧ga

Etymology 1

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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

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miga f (plural migas)

  1. crumb (small piece which breaks off from baked food)
    Synonym: migaja
  2. essence, core (most significant feature of something)
  3. crumb, bit (small amount)
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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miga

  1. inflection of migar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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