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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

Colors in Maori · ngā tae(layout · text)

tea, mā	kiwikiwi	pango
mea, kura, whero	karaka; parauri	kōwhai, renga
	kāriki, kākāriki	kārikiuri
	kikorangi	kahurangi
tūāuri	waiporoporo	māwhero

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