renga

From Japanese 連歌 (renga, literally “connected verse”).

renga (plural rengas or renga)

1. A form of Japanese verse in which short poems are connected together, the origin of haikai and haiku.

• Agner, Negar, Regan, anger, areng, grane, range, rangé, regna

• IPA^(key): [rəŋaʔ]
• Hyphenation: re‧nga
• Rhymes: -aʔ

renga

1. flu

renga

1. Rōmaji transcription of れんが

renga (Jawi spelling رڠا, plural renga-renga, informal 1st possessive rengaku, 2nd possessive rengamu, 3rd possessive renganya)

1. larva

• “renga” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From Proto-Polynesian *renga from Proto-Oceanic *renga. Cognate with Hawaiian lena, Tahitian reʻa, Samoan lega and Tongan enga all meaning "turmeric".^[1][2] Sense of colour comes from hue produced by the plant (compare with Hawaiian lenalena), eventually displacing the original meaning when the plant did not survive the cold New Zealand climate.^[3]

renga

1. yellow

   Synonym: kōwhai

renga

1. (obsolete) turmeric

• rengarenga

renga (present tense renger, past tense rengde, past participle rengt, present participle rengande, imperative reng)

1. Alternative form of rengja

• IPA^(key): /ˈrenɡa/ [ˈrẽŋ.ɡa]
• Rhymes: -enɡa
• Syllabification: ren‧ga

renga

1. feminine singular of rengo

renga

1. to buy

Compare Italian aringa (“herring”).

renga f (plural renghe)

1. herring (Clupea harengus)

• Boerio, Giuseppe (1867) “renga”, in Dizionario del dialetto veneziano, 3rd edition, Venice: G. Cecchini, page 566