doga

See also: Appendix:Variations of "doga"

English

The downward-facing dog pose with a dog

Etymology

Blend of dog +‎ yoga

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdoʊ.ɡə/
• Rhymes: -əʊɡə

Noun

doga (uncountable)

1. The practice of yoga with pet dogs.
   • 2009 April 9, Bethany Lyttle, “Bonding With Their Downward-Facing Humans”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Ms. Bryan, the author in Seattle, said: “It’s a new field so there can be confusion about what doga is and isn’t.”

Further reading

• Doga (yoga) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Goad, Goda, dago, goad

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin doga (“vat”), from Ancient Greek δοχή (dokhḗ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈdɔ.ɣə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈdo.ɣa]

Noun

doga f (plural dogues)

1. (of a barrel) stave
2. (Valencia) fat roll

   Synonym: sacsó

Further reading

• “doga” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “doga”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “doga” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chamorro

Verb

doga

1. comprising.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdoɡa]

Noun

doga f

1. mastiff

Declension

Declension of doga (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	doga	dogy
genitive	dogy	dog
dative	doze	dogám
accusative	dogu	dogy
vocative	dogo	dogy
locative	doze	dogách
instrumental	dogou	dogami

Further reading

• “doga”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔ.ɡa/, (traditional) /ˈdo.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -ɔɡa, (traditional) -oɡa
• Hyphenation: dò‧ga, (traditional) dó‧ga

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Etymology 1

From Latin doga, from Ancient Greek δοχή (dokhḗ), from Proto-Indo-European *doḱ-éh₂, from *deḱ-.

Noun

doga f (plural doghe)

1. slat (of bed)
2. floorboard
3. stave

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

doga

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

Anagrams

• goda

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δοχή (dokhḗ), from Proto-Indo-European *doḱ-éh₂, from *deḱ-.

Noun

doga f (genitive dogae); first declension

1. vat
2. vessel

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	doga	dogae
genitive	dogae	dogārum
dative	dogae	dogīs
accusative	dogam	dogās
ablative	dogā	dogīs
vocative	doga	dogae

Descendants

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: doagã
  • Romanian: doagă
• Dalmatian:
  • duag
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: doga
  • Sicilian: duga, dua, duva
    • → Maltese: dugħ
• Padanian:
  • Friulian: dove
  • Emilian: duga, dua
  • Lombard: doa
  • Piedmontese: doa, dova, doja
  • Venetan: dóa, doga, dova
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: dova ⇒ duèla
  • Old French: doue, dove
    • French: douve
    • ⇒ Old French: douelle (diminutive)
      • → Galician: doela, duela, duvela
      • → Portuguese: aduela
      • → Spanish: duela
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: doga, adoga, adova
  • Catalan: doga
  • Occitan: doga (Most dialects) ⇒ doguèla, doèla

    Gascon: doa, dova ⇒ dolha

    Languedocien: doa ⇒ doèlha (Foishenc)

    Nord-Occitan: dova

• Borrowings:
  • → Albanian: dhogë
  • → Middle Dutch: duge
    • Dutch: duig
  • → Middle High German: dūge
    • German: Daube

References

• “doga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• doga in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• doga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Noun

doga f (plural dogas)

1. A female Dogo Argentino.

Volapük

Noun

doga

1. genitive singular of dog