"mămăligă" meaning in Romanian

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Noun

IPA: /mə.məˈli.ɡə/ Audio: Ro-mămăligă.ogg
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly a substrate word or an expressive creation based on mamă or Latin mamilla (representing the idea of nourishment) + -ică. Alternately, it can be inherited from Latin [Term?], akin to Italian meliga (“maize, sorghum”), from Latin milium (“millet”). Etymology templates: {{unc|ro}} Uncertain, {{der|ro|qfa-sub}} substrate, {{der|ro|la|mamilla}} Latin mamilla, {{suffix|ro||ică}} + -ică, {{glossary|inherited}} inherited, {{inh|ro|la||||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Latin [Term?], {{inh+|ro|la||nocap=1}} inherited from Latin [Term?], {{cog|it|meliga|gloss=maize, sorghum}} Italian meliga (“maize, sorghum”), {{der|ro|la|milium|gloss=millet}} Latin milium (“millet”) Head templates: {{ro-noun|f|mămăligi}} mămăligă f (plural mămăligi) Inflection templates: {{ro-decl-noun|g=f|gpd=mămăligilor|gpi=mămăligi|gsd=mămăligii|gsi=mămăligi|n=|npd=mămăligile|npi=mămăligi|nsd=mămăliga|nsi=mămăligă|vp=mămăligilor|vs=mămăligă|vs2=mămăligo}} Forms: mămăligi [plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], mămăligă [accusative, indefinite, nominative, singular], mămăliga [accusative, definite, nominative, singular], mămăligi [accusative, indefinite, nominative, singular], mămăligile [accusative, definite, nominative, plural], mămăligi [error-unrecognized-form, indefinite, singular], mămăligii [definite, error-unrecognized-form, singular], mămăligilor [definite, error-unrecognized-form, plural], mămăligă [singular, vocative], mămăligo [singular, vocative], mămăligilor [vocative], măligă [alternative, regional]
  1. mamaliga, cornmeal mush, polenta (a porridge-like dish made of coarse maize-meal) Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-mămăligă-ro-noun-GOxn-vX7 Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Romanian entries with incorrect language header, Romanian terms suffixed with -ică, Foods Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 88 12 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 90 10 Disambiguation of Romanian entries with incorrect language header: 87 13 Disambiguation of Romanian terms suffixed with -ică: 75 25 Disambiguation of Foods: 96 4
  2. wimp, wuss Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-mămăligă-ro-noun-9ZJkKQx2
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: mălai, tocană, stew commonly served with mămăligă

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "uk",
            "2": "мамали́ґа",
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          },
          "expansion": "→ Ukrainian: мамали́ґа (mamalýga)\n→ Belarusian: мамалы́га (mamalýha)\n→ Polish: mamałyga\n→ Russian: мамалы́га (mamalýga)",
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      ],
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    },
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    },
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        ],
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          "mush",
          "mush"
        ],
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          "polenta",
          "polenta"
        ]
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      ],
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          "wimp"
        ],
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          "wuss",
          "wuss"
        ]
      ],
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        "feminine"
      ]
    }
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    },
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    "Romanian terms derived from substrate languages",
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        "vocative"
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          "wuss",
          "wuss"
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}

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  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'genitive-dative'",
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  "section": "Romanian",
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