lenga

From Mapudungun lenga, via Spanish.

lenga (plural lengas)

1. A deciduous tree native to the southern Andes, taxonomic name Nothofagus pumilio.

• -angle, Angel, Angle, Elgan, Galen, Lange, Legan, Nagle, agnel, angel, angle, genal, glean

Cognate with Tumbuka -lenga (“to create”), Sena -lenga (“to create”) Kunda -lenga (“to create”) and Nyungwe -lenga (“to create”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɽe.ᵑɡa/

-lenga (infinitive kulénga)

1. to create

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -lengera
  • Causative: -lengetsa
  • Negative: -salenga
  • Passive: -lengedwa
  • Reduplicative: -lengalenga
  • Repetitive: -lenganso
  • Stative: -lengeka

• Nominal derivations:
  • Namalenga (“Creator”)
  • mlengalenga (“universe”)

Inherited from Malay lenga (“sesame”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ləŋa.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ləˈŋa/ [ləˈŋa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: le‧nga

lênga (plural lenga-lenga)

1. sesame, Sesamum indicum

   Synonyms: bijan, sesam, (more common) wijen

• “lenga”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

lenga

1. romanization of ꦊꦔ

lenga

1. to tremble

Cognate with Chichewa -lenga (“to create”), Tumbuka -lenga (“to create”), Sena -lenga (“to create”) Nyungwe -lenga (“to create”).

-lenga

1. to create

• Bible Society of Zimbabwe, Bhaibheri reChikunda, Kuyamba 1:1

Cognate with Chichewa -lenga (“to create”), Tumbuka -lenga (“to create”), Sena -lenga (“to create”), Nyungwe -lenga (“to create”) and Kunda -lenga (“to create”).

-lenga

1. to create
2. to invent
3. to devise
4. to bring about

• Bible Society of Zambia, Lenje Bible with Deutercanon, 2003 - Matalikilo 1
• Arthur Cornwallis Madan, M.A. (1908), Lenje Handbook: A Short Introduction to the Lenje Dialect Spoken in North-West Rhodesia‎^[1], Oxford Clarendon Press, page 140

-lenga (infinitive kolenga)

1. to shake, to shiver

-lenga

1. good
2. beautiful

   Synonyms: ìmpè, lengèle

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ləŋa. Cognate with Tagalog linga, Cebuano lunga, Rade ênga and Tetum lena. Compare also Proto-Tai *r.ŋaːᴬ (“sesame”) (whence Thai งา (ngaa)) and Proto-Mon-Khmer *lŋaaʔ ~ *lŋawʔ (“sesame”) (whence Khmer ល្ង (lngɔɔ)).

• IPA^(key): /ləŋa/, /leŋa/
• Rhymes: -ŋa, -a

lenga (Jawi spelling لڠا or ليڠا, plural lenga-lenga or lenga²)

1. sesame, Sesamum indicum

   Synonyms: bijan, ginjili, til

• Indonesian: lenga

• "lenga" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
  (also see "lenga" at PRPM first version)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ləŋa.

lenga

1. sesame

Cognate with Chichewa -lenga (“to create”), Tumbuka -lenga (“to create”), Sena -lenga (“to create”) and Kunda -lenga (“to create”).

-lenga

1. to create

• -lengedwa (“to be created”)

• (Provence) lengo, lenguo
• (Gascony) lengua
• (Limousin) linga

From Old Occitan lengua, from Latin lingua, from Old Latin dingua, from Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

• IPA^(key): /ˈleŋ.ɡo̞/

• Audio (Béarn):

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lenga f (plural lengas)

1. (anatomy) the tongue
2. a language

• lengatge

From Spanish lengua and Portuguese língua and Kabuverdianu lingua, from Latin lingua, from Old Latin dingua, from Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

lenga

1. tongue
2. language

From Latin lingua, from Old Latin dingua, from Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā, from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛŋɡa/

lenga f (plural lenghe)

1. tongue
2. language

Cognate with Kunda -lenga (“to create”), Nyungwe -lenga (“to create”), Chichewa -lenga (“to create”), and Tumbuka -lenga (“to create”).

-lenga (infinitive kulenga)

1. to create

• Bible Society of Malawi, Sena, Kutoma 1:1 (the verb is in the 3rd person singular remote past form)

Borrowed from Mapudungun lenga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlenɡa/ [ˈlẽŋ.ɡa]
• Rhymes: -enɡa
• Syllabification: len‧ga

lenga f (plural lengas)

1. lenga (tree)
2. lenga beech

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

-lenga (infinitive kulenga)

1. to aim, to aim at, to strive for
2. to slice

Conjugation of -lenga
Positive present -nalenga Subjunctive -lenge Negative -lengi Imperative singular lenga
Infinitives
Positive kulenga Negative kutolenga
Imperatives
Singular lenga Plural lengeni
Tensed forms
Habitual hulenga Positive past positive subject concord + -lilenga Negative past negative subject concord + -kulenga
Positive present (positive subject concord + -nalenga) Singular Plural 1st person ninalenga/nalenga tunalenga 2nd person unalenga mnalenga 3rd person m-wa(I/II) analenga wanalenga other classes positive subject concord + -nalenga
Negative present (negative subject concord + -lengi) Singular Plural 1st person silengi hatulengi 2nd person hulengi hamlengi 3rd person m-wa(I/II) halengi hawalengi other classes negative subject concord + -lengi
Positive future positive subject concord + -talenga Negative future negative subject concord + -talenga
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -lenge) Singular Plural 1st person nilenge tulenge 2nd person ulenge mlenge 3rd person m-wa(I/II) alenge walenge other classes positive subject concord + -lenge
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -silenge Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngelenga Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singelenga Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngalilenga Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singalilenga
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -alenga) Singular Plural 1st person nalenga twalenga 2nd person walenga mwalenga 3rd person m-wa(I/II) alenga walenga m-mi(III/IV) walenga yalenga ji-ma(V/VI) lalenga yalenga ki-vi(VII/VIII) chalenga vyalenga n(IX/X) yalenga zalenga u(XI) walenga see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) kwalenga pa(XVI) palenga mu(XVIII) mwalenga
Perfect positive subject concord + -melenga "Already" positive subject concord + -meshalenga "Not yet" negative subject concord + -jalenga "If/When" positive subject concord + -kilenga "If not" positive subject concord + -sipolenga Consecutive kalenga / positive subject concord + -kalenga Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kalenge
Object concord (indicative positive) Singular Plural 1st person -nilenga -tulenga 2nd person -kulenga -walenga/-kulengeni/-walengeni 3rd person m-wa(I/II) -mlenga -walenga m-mi(III/IV) -ulenga -ilenga ji-ma(V/VI) -lilenga -yalenga ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kilenga -vilenga n(IX/X) -ilenga -zilenga u(XI) -ulenga see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kulenga pa(XVI) -palenga mu(XVIII) -mulenga Reflexive -jilenga
Relative forms General positive (positive subject concord + (object concord) + -lenga- + relative marker) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -lengaye -lengao m-mi(III/IV) -lengao -lengayo ji-ma(V/VI) -lengalo -lengayo ki-vi(VII/VIII) -lengacho -lengavyo n(IX/X) -lengayo -lengazo u(XI) -lengao see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -lengako pa(XVI) -lengapo mu(XVIII) -lengamo Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + (object concord) + -lenga) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -yelenga -olenga m-mi(III/IV) -olenga -yolenga ji-ma(V/VI) -lolenga -yolenga ki-vi(VII/VIII) -cholenga -vyolenga n(IX/X) -yolenga -zolenga u(XI) -olenga see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kolenga pa(XVI) -polenga mu(XVIII) -molenga
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.

• Verbal derivations:
  • Passive: -lengwa

• Nominal derivations:
  • lengo (“target, objective”)
  • mlengaji
  • ulengaji (“targeting”)

Cognate with Chichewa -lenga (“to create”), Sena -lenga (“to create”), Kunda -lenga (“to create”) and Nyungwe -lenga (“to create”).

-lenga (infinitive kulenga)

1. to create

   Synonym: -ata

• -lengeka (“to be created”)
• Mlengi (“Creator”)
• mlengalenga (“the heavens”)
• vilengiwa (“created objects”)

• William Y. Turner (1996), Tumbuka/Tonga-English and English - Tumbuka/Tonga Dictionary‎^[2], Central Africana Limited

From Proto-Bantu *-dénga.

• IPA^(key): [leːᵑɡ̊a̤]

-lenga

1. to hang

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Bantu *-dénga.

IPA^(key): /leːnɡa/

-lenga

1. (intransitive) to dangle, to hang

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “lenga”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “lenga (6.3)”