ngas

See also: ngás and ŋas

English

Noun

ngas

1. plural of nga

Anagrams

• AGNs, nags, ANGs, Angs, gans, Sang, snag, GANs, NSAG, sang, SNAG, GNAs

Albanian

Alternative forms

• ngajta (aorist)
• ngajte (2nd person aorist singular)
• ngajtur (participle)

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *en-gatja, causative of *en-gānja (modern ngaj). More at ngah.

Verb

ngas (aorist ngava, participle ngarë) (transitive)

1. (intransitive) to run

   Synonyms: vrapoj, rend, ngarend

2. to touch something with a hand, foot or object

   Synonym: prek

3. (figurative) to harass, annoy, pick on, tease

   Synonyms: trazoj, ngacmoj, thumboj, cyt

4. (colloquial, chiefly in the negative) to interact, touch, eat, do

   nuk e ngau gjellën fare ― he didn't eat the food at all

5. (third person, colloquial) to be afflicted/annoyed by disease

   e nget kolla ― he's troubled by a cough

6. to push an animal to work (horse, ox)
7. (regional) to plough

   Synonym: lëroj

8. to drive (car)

   Synonym: vozis

9. (colloquial) to work on something

   Synonym: prek

10. (colloquial) to take part in something, to apprentice

    Synonym: ndjek

11. to put/set in motion, drift with swiftness
12. (regional) to sharpen, whet

    Synonym: mpreh

13. (southern Tosk, Frashër) to attack

    Synonym: sulmoj

14. (archaic) to tempt

    Synonym: josh

Derived terms

• ngacmoj (through an intermediary *ngacë > *ngacmë > ngacmoj)
• ngallmoj
• ngatërr
  • ngatërroj

Related terms

• ngah
• gand

Further reading

• “ngas”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1] (in Albanian), 1980
• “ngas”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Mann, S. E. (1948) “ngas”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 318

Irish

Noun

ngas m

1. Eclipsed form of gas.

Palauan

Etymology

From Pre-Palauan *ŋ acu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aʀuhu.

Noun

ngas

1. ironwood

References

• ngas in Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary, at tekinged.com.
• ngas in Palauan-English Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
• ngas in Lewis S. Josephs, Edwin G. McManus, Masa-aki Emesiochel (1977) Palauan-English Dictionary, University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 209.