name
Meaning 1
A Bantu dialect continuum spoken by these people.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Kichaga, Kichagga
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
chaga
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noun
Meaning 2
A parasitic fungus of trees, usually birch, found on the circumboreal region of the Northern hemisphere, Inonotus obliquus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The irregular conk of this fungus, used in East European folk medicine to treat a number of conditions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Bantu-speaking indigenous Africans comprising the third-largest ethnic group in Tanzania.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
a Bantu language spoken by the Chaga in northern Tanzania
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Kichaga, Chagga
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: Bantu, Bantoid language
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Permic *čak Komi-Zyrian тшак (čak)bor. Russian ча́га (čága)bor. English chaga Borrowed from Russian ча́га (čága), Komi-Zyrian тшак (čak, “mushroom, growth”).
Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 白樺茸 /白桦茸 — fungus
- Finnish: pakurikääpä — fungus
- Korean: 자작나무시루뻔버섯 (jajangnamusiruppeonbeoseot) — fungus
- Russian: трутови́к (trutovík) — fungus
- Finnish: pakuri — conk
- Itelmen: кэйук — conk
- Northern Khanty: вөш (wøš) — conk
- Komi-Zyrian: бака (baka) — conk
- Norwegian Nynorsk: kreftkjuke — conk
- Russian: чага (čaga) — conk
- Russian: пакля (paklja) — conk
- Russian: тютяк (tjutjak) — conk
- Southern Altai: кайыҥныҥ мешкези (kayïŋnïŋ meškezi) — conk