piga

• Hyphenation: pi‧ga
• IPA^(key): /piˈɡa/, [piˈɡa]

pigá

1. roe; fish eggs
2. spawn

   Synonym: duyag

Possibly related to picar or pic.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpi.ɣə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈpi.ɣa]
• Rhymes: -iɡa

piga f (plural pigues)

1. freckle

• “piga” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• pîga (Reggiano)

piga f (plural pighi) (Modena)

1. fold
2. pleat
3. crease
4. tuck
5. twist

From Danish pige (“girl”).

piga

1. daughter

It is not known for sure, but pretty obvious, that the word could also mean a girl, not only because of its origin, but also because it is attested together with Russenorsk junka, when it was used in meaning son.

• Ingvild Broch, Ernst H. Jahr (1984) Russenorsk: Et pidginspråk i Norge [Russenorsk: A pidgin language in Norway], 2 edition, Oslo: Novus Forlag

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-piga (infinitive kupiga)

1. to hit, to strike
2. to play (an instrument)
3. Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun.

   kura (“ballot”) → -piga kura ("cast a ballot")

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -pigia
  • Causative: -pigisha
  • Passive: -pigwa (“be beaten up”)
  • Reciprocal: -pigana (“fight”)

• Nominal derivations:
  • mpiga
  • pigo (“beating, blow”)
  • upigaji (“hitting”)

From Old Norse píka. Cognate with Icelandic píka and Danish pige. Also cognate with Finnish piika, Estonian piiga, and arguably, with Chuvash пике́ (pik̬é, “noblewoman, beauty”). Difficult to determine which language borrowed from which.

piga c

1. (dated) a maid, a female servant; female employee on a farm, as in a milkmaid.
2. (archaic) a girl, a young woman
3. (obsolete) an unmarried woman (regardless of age)

• kökspiga
• mjölkpiga
• pigroman

• piga in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• piga in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• piga in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• piga in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

From Proto-Philippine *pəʀəq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pəʀəq, from Proto-Austronesian *pəʀəq (“to squeeze out juice”). Compare Bikol Central puga, Cebuano puga, Malay perah, and Chamorro fugo'.

• IPA^(key): /piˈɡaʔ/, [pɪˈɣaʔ]
• Hyphenation: pi‧ga

pigâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜄ)

1. squeezing out of fluid from an object (such as squeezing out juice from fruit, or wringing out water from clothes)

• “piga”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

From Malay pinjam.

piga

1. to borrow

From Ternate piga (“large plate”), from Malay pinggan, from Classical Persian پنگان (pingān).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.ɡa/

piga

1. dish, plate

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics