jiga

jiga

1. flower

• 'jiga, jigga, chigga, jigguh, chigguh

From Wolof jiga ("insect").

• IPA^(key): /ɟɪ.ɡʌ/, /d͡ʒɪ.ɡə/, /t͡ʃɪ.ɡə/

jiga

1. (biology) insect
2. flea

• Lorenzo Dow Turner, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1969)

jiga

1. Rōmaji transcription of じが

jiga (Chena)

1. alternative form of jega (“berry, blueberry”)

• Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 227

jiga f (plural jigas)

1. alternative spelling of giga

• “jiga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒì.ɡá/

jìgá

1. chigoe; a small tropical flea

   Tàpòtàpò là ń yọ jìgá, tewétewé là ń yan ẹ̀kọ

   With their sac and all is how to remove chiggers; with its wrapping-leaves is the way to buy ẹ̀kọ.

   (One must do things thoroughly, not by halves.)

• → English: chigoe, chigger

From English digger.

• dígà

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒí.ɡà/

jígà

1. pickaxe