mămăligă

• măligă — regional

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”).

• IPA^(key): /mə.məˈli.ɡə/

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• Rhymes: -iɡə
• Hyphenation: mă‧mă‧li‧gă

mămăligă f (plural mămăligi)

1. mamaliga, cornmeal mush, polenta (a porridge-like dish made of coarse maize-meal)
2. wimp, wuss

• Bulgarian: мамалига (mamaliga)
• Ukrainian: мамали́ґа (mamalýga)
  • → Belarusian: мамалы́га (mamalýha)
  • → Polish: mamałyga
  • → Russian: мамалы́га (mamalýga)
• Yiddish: מאַמעליגע (mamelige)
• Serbian: see мамаљуга on the Serbian Wiktionary.Wiktionary ^sr
• Greek: see μαμαλίγκα on the Greek Wiktionary.Wiktionary ^el
• Albanian: see mëmëligë on the Albanian Wiktionary.Wiktionary ^sq
• Turkish: see mamaliga on the Turkish Wiktionary.Wiktionary ^tr
• Hungarian: see mamaliga on the Hungarian Wiktionary.Wiktionary ^hu
• English: mamaliga

• mălai
• tocană, stew commonly served with mămăligă