duga

• IPA^(key): /ˈduɡaʔ/, [ˈd̪u.ɡaʔ]
• Hyphenation: du‧ga

dugà (Basahan spelling ᜇᜓᜄ)

1. nectar

   Synonym: tagok

2. sap

   Synonym: pulot

duga

1. juice, nectar, sap
2. (slang) sperm, semen

From Old Norse duga (“to help, to suffice”), from Proto-Germanic *duganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewgʰ- (“to produce”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuːwa/
• Rhymes: -uːwa

duga (third person singular past indicative dugdi, supine dugað)

1. to know how to

   Tey duga føroyskt.[2]

   They can speak Faroese.

"duga" at Sprotin.fo

Akin to Cebuano duga.

duga

1. honey

From Old Norse duga (“to help, to suffice”), from Proto-Germanic *duganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewgʰ- (“to produce”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʏːɣa/

  Rhymes: -ʏːɣa

duga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative dugði, supine dugað) or
duga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative dugaði, supine dugað)

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

   Þetta dugir mér.

   This is enough for me.

   Mig vantar blað.. Þetta umslag dugar alveg.

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

2. to be fit

• (to suffice): nægja

• duga til (“to be good for”)
• duga eða drepast (“to do or die”)
• nú er að duga eða drepast

duga (used in the form menduga)

1. To gauge. (clarification of this definition is needed)
2. To guess.

• IPA^(key): /duɡa/
• Rhymes: -uɡa

duga (Jawi spelling ندوݢ)

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

• Indonesian: duga

• “duga” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• duge

From Old Norse duga.

• IPA^(key): /dʉːɡa/

duga (present tense duger, past tense dugde, past participle dugt/dugd, passive infinitive dugast, present participle dugande, imperative dug)

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.

2. be skilled enough

   Er du viss på at dei duger til jobben?

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

• “duga” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *duganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰedʰówgʰe, from the root *dʰewgʰ- (“to produce”).

duga (singular past indicative dugði, plural past indicative dugðu, past participle dugat)

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

   hefir oss þó dugat þessi átrúnaðr

   but this faith has served us well

   fátt er svá illt at einugi dugi

   few things are utterly useless

   mun þér eigi þat duga at sofa hér

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

3. to show prowess, do good service

   dugði hverr sem hann mátti

   everyone did his best

4. to suffice, be strong enough

   ef vitni duga

   if the witness fail not

• dugnaðr m

• Icelandic: duga
• Faroese: duga
• Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: duge
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: duga, duge
• Old Swedish: dugha, dogha
  • Swedish: duga
• Old Danish: dughæ
  • Danish: du

• “duga”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dǫga.

• IPA^(key): /dǔːɡa/

dúga f (Cyrillic spelling ду́га)

1. rainbow

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

duga

1. inflection of dug:
   1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
   2. indefinite masculine/neuter genitive singular
   3. indefinite animate masculine accusative singular
   4. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural

duga

1. genitive singular of dug

• dua, duva

Inherited from Latin 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-?”)

duga f (plural dughi)

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

• → Maltese: dugħ

• 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

From Old Swedish dugha, from Old Norse duga, from Proto-Germanic *duganą. The (formerly) colloquial strong declension mirrors the declensions of words like suga and ljuga.

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duga (present duger, preterite dugde or dög, supine dugt or dugit, imperative dug)

1. suffice, be good (or skilled) enough; be acceptable; be useful for

   Om den dög åt din syster, så duger den åt dig.

   If it was good enough for your sister, then it'll be good enough for you.

   Den här duger ingenting till.

   This is good for nothing.

• dugande
• som heter duga

• duga in Svensk ordbok.

duga

1. only, merely

• cuma

duga

1. to burn