ranga

Extracted from (o)rang(utan), with -er suffix; in use since 1990s; to a certain extent popularised by the ABC television show Summer Heights High (2007).

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɹæŋə/

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• Rhymes: -æŋə

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, published 2018, page 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.

   • 2018, Aussie Disney (YouTube), Aussie Incredibles:

     SID: Yeah, all my friends hate me, I don't know why. MR. INCREDIBLE: Maybe it's because you're a fucking ranga you cockhead. SID: What the fuck did you just say, cunt? MR. INCREDIBLE: I said; ranga. SID: I am not a ranga!

Sometimes used as a nickname or epithet.

• bloodnut
• Bluey
• ginger

• Nagra, Ragan, argan, grana

Borrowed from Sanskrit रङ्ग (raṅga, “amusement, diversion, mirth”).

• Hyphenation: ra‧nga
• IPA^(key): /ˈɾaŋa/, [ˈɾa.ŋa]

ránga

1. relief, solace, consoling

   Synonym: konsuwelo

2. comfort, comforting

   Synonyms: ginhawa, karinyo

ranga f (genitive singular röngu, no plural)

1. reverse side
2. wrong side

ranga

1. genitive singular of rang

Borrowed from German Rang. Doublet of ring and rynek.

• IPA^(key): /ˈraŋ.ɡa/

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• Rhymes: -aŋɡa
• Syllabification: ran‧ga

ranga f

1. (military) rank
   • 2014 July 6, Jędrzej Bielecki, Piotr Gursztyn, Monika Kruszewska-Mikucka, Olgierd Kwiatkowski, Kinga Olszewska, “Usadzenie przy stole podczas podróży służbowej pokazuje miejsce w szeregu”, in Rzeczpospolita‎, archived from the original on 2022-05-15:

     Nawet w sytuacji, kiedy gość jest znacznie wyższy rangą od gospodarza, nadal osoba przyjmująca delegację wita się jako pierwsza.

     Even in a situation where the guest is much higher in rank than the host, the person receiving the delegation is still greeted as the first.

2. weight, importance

   Synonym: doniosłość

• ranga in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ranga in Polish dictionaries at PWN

ranga

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