tega

See also: téga

Galician

Etymology

From an older talega, from Andalucian Arabic [script needed] (taʕlíqa, “bag”). Doublet of taleiga and of teiga; cognate with Spanish talega.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛɣa̝/

Noun

tega f (plural tegas)

  1. (units of measure) a traditional unit of dry measure, especially for grain, used in southern Galicia

References

  • “teega” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “teega” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “tega” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “tega” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  • “tega” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ↑ Corriente, Federico (2008), “taleca”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

Italian

Noun

tega f (plural teghe)

  1. pod (of a bean etc)
  2. (slang) penis
  3. fishbone

Swahili

tega

Verb

tega

  1. trap (to catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes)


This Swahili entry was created from the translations listed at trap. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see tega in the Swahili Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) July 2009

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