ranga
See also: ränga and rangă
English
Etymology
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).
Pronunciation
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ɹæŋə/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -æŋə
Noun
ranga (plural rangas)
- (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 2018, p. 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!
- 2009, David Foster, Sons of the Rumour, unnumbered page,
Usage notes
Sometimes used as a nickname or epithet.
See also
- Bluey
Anagrams
- Nagra, Ragan, argan, grana
Bikol Central
Etymology
Borrowed from Sanskrit रङ्ग (raṅga, “amusement, diversion, mirth”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ra‧nga
- IPA(key): /ˈɾaŋa/
Adjective
ranga
- comforting
- Synonym: karinyoso
Noun
ranga
- relief, solace
- Synonym: konsuwelo
- consoling
- comfort
- Synonyms: ginhawa, karinyo
Derived terms
- karangahan
- magranga
- rangahan
Icelandic
Noun
ranga f (genitive singular röngu, no plural)
- reverse side
- wrong side
Declension
declension of ranga
| f-w1 | singular | |
|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | ranga | rangan |
| accusative | röngu | rönguna |
| dative | röngu | röngunni |
| genitive | röngu | röngunnar |
Irish
Noun
ranga
- genitive singular of rang
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from German Rang, from French rang, from Old French renc, reng, ranc, rang, from Frankish *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengʰ-o-s, from *(s)ker- (“to turn”). Doublet of krąg (“circle, ring”), kręg (“vertebra”), ring (“boxing ring”), and rynek (“marketplace”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈraŋ.ɡa/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aŋɡa
- Syllabification: ran‧ga
Noun
ranga f
- (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.
-
- weight, importance
- Synonym: doniosłość
Declension
Declension of ranga
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ranga | rangi |
| genitive | rangi | rang |
| dative | randze | rangom |
| accusative | rangę | rangi |
| instrumental | rangą | rangami |
| locative | randze | rangach |
| vocative | rango | rangi |
Further reading
- ranga in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- ranga in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Verb
ranga
- inflection of rangar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative