ranga

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See also: ränga and rangă

English

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Etymology

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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

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Noun

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ranga (plural rangas)

  1. (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, published 2018, page 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!

Usage notes

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Sometimes used as a nickname or epithet.

See also

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Anagrams

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Bikol Central

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Sanskrit रङ्ग (raṅga, amusement, diversion, mirth).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ra‧nga
  • IPA(key): /ˈɾaŋa/ [ˈɾa.ŋa]

Noun

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ránga

  1. relief, solace, consoling
    Synonym: konsuwelo
  2. comfort, comforting
    Synonyms: ginhawa, karinyo

Derived terms

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Icelandic

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Noun

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ranga f (genitive singular röngu, no plural)

  1. reverse side
  2. wrong side

Declension

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    Declension of ranga
f-w1 singular
indefinite definite
nominative ranga rangan
accusative röngu rönguna
dative röngu röngunni
genitive röngu röngunnar

Irish

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Noun

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ranga

  1. genitive singular of rang

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

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Borrowed from German Rang. Doublet of ring and rynek.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ranga f

  1. (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[1], 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.
  2. weight, importance
    Synonym: doniosłość

Declension

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Further reading

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  • ranga in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • ranga in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Verb

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ranga

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