miga

See also: migá, míga, Miga, and MIGA

Cebuano

Etymology

Initial clipping of amiga.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mi‧ga

Noun

miga

1. a female friend
2. an address to a female friend; a friendly placeholder name for a person one does not know

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin mīca (“crumb”), from Proto-Italic *smīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *smeyg- (“small, thin, delicate”). Compare the borrowed doublet mica. Cognate with Portuguese miga and Spanish miga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiɣa̝/

Noun

miga f (plural migas)

1. crumb (small piece)

   Synonyms: migalla, fragulla, faragulla, miaxón, molo, mincalla, magoto

2. crumb (the soft internal portion of bread)

   Synonyms: miolo, rafa

3. a trifle; a little

   Synonyms: migalla, lisca, nisquiño, chinca

   Cunha miguiña de sorte aínda chegaremos a tempo. ― With a little luck we'll be arriving just in time.

4. a little time

   Marchamos daquí a unha miga. ― We are leaving in a moment.

Derived terms

• migalla
• migar
• nin miga

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “miga”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “miga”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “miga”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

miga

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

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪːɣa/

  Rhymes: -ɪːɣa

Noun

miga f (genitive singular migu, nominative plural migur)

1. (vulgar) the act of pissing
2. (vulgar) piss, urine

Declension

Declension of miga (feminine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	miga	migan	migur	migurnar
accusative	migu	miguna	migur	migurnar
dative	migu	migunni	migum	migunum
genitive	migu	migunnar	migna, miga	mignanna, miganna

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• mige (e and split infinitives)

Etymology

From Old Norse míga, from Proto-Germanic *mīganą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃méyǵʰeti, from the root *h₃meyǵʰ- (“to urinate”).

Verb

miga (present tense mig, past tense meig, supine mige, past participle migen, present participle migande, imperative mig)

1. (ambitransitive, mildly vulgar) to piss

   Synonyms: urinera, lata vatn, pissa, tissa

Derived terms

• mighus (“horse foreskin”)

Noun

miga n

1. definite plural of mig

References

• “miga” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀫𑀺𑀕 (Brahmi script)
• मिग (Devanagari script)
• মিগ (Bengali script)
• මිග (Sinhalese script)
• မိဂ or မိၷ (Burmese script)
• มิค or มิคะ (Thai script)
• ᨾᩥᨣ (Tai Tham script)
• ມິຄ or ມິຄະ (Lao script)
• មិគ (Khmer script)
• 𑄟𑄨𑄉 (Chakma script)

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit मृग (mṛga, “wild beast”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mr̥gás.

Noun

miga m

1. beast
2. quadruped
3. deer

Declension

Declension table of "miga" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	migo	migā
Accusative (second)	migaṃ	mige
Instrumental (third)	migena	migehi or migebhi
Dative (fourth)	migassa or migāya or migatthaṃ	migānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	migasmā or migamhā or migā	migehi or migebhi
Genitive (sixth)	migassa	migānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	migasmiṃ or migamhi or mige	migesu
Vocative (calling)	miga	migā

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -iɡa
• Syllabification: mi‧ga

Verb

miga

1. third-person singular present of migać

Portuguese

migas (2)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ɡɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ɡɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ɡa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ɡɐ/ [ˈmi.ɣɐ]

• Hyphenation: mi‧ga

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese miga, from Latin mīca (“crumb”), from Proto-Italic *smīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *smeyg- (“small, thin, delicate”). Compare the borrowed doublet mica.

Noun

miga f (plural migas)

1. crumb (small piece of bread, biscuit, cake, etc)

   Synonym: migalha

2. (in the plural, cooking) a traditional Iberian dish consisting of leftover bread and various ingredients

Etymology 2

Clipping of amiga (“female friend”).

Noun

miga f (plural migas, masculine migo, masculine plural migos)

1. (endearing, chiefly women's speech) female friend

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

miga (Cyrillic spelling мига)

1. genitive singular of mig

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiɡa/ [ˈmi.ɣ̞a]

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• Rhymes: -iɡa
• Syllabification: mi‧ga

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish miga, from Latin mīca (“crumb”), from Proto-Italic *smīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *smeyg- (“small, thin, delicate”). Compare the borrowed doublet mica. Cognate with English mica.

Noun

miga f (plural migas)

1. crumb (small piece which breaks off from baked food)

   Synonym: migaja

2. essence, core (most significant feature of something)
3. crumb, bit (small amount)

Derived terms

• desmigajar
• hacer buenas migas
• migaja
• migajón
• tener su miga

Etymology 2

Verb

miga

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

Further reading

• “miga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10