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engmas

engmas is the plural of engma.

Meaning of engma

Noun

engma (plural engmas)

  1. (countable) The velar nasal consonant found in such words as song or wink.
    • The velar nasal (engma) is transcribed as /ng/.1985, James Joseph Errington, Language and Social Change in Java: Linguistic Reflexes of Modernization in a Traditional Royal Polity
  2. (countable) The symbol ŋ, used to represent that nasal velar consonant in IPA.
    • We kept some of the foreign alphabet symbols such as the accented and umlauted vowels and Greek letters and used the rest of the space for more esoteric linguistic symbols such as "barred-l," and "engma."1989, Elizabeth A. Edwards, “A Computer Column for All Seasons”, in Margaret S. Boone, editor, Practicing Anthropology, volume 11, number 2
    Synonyms:
    eng, agma

Questions about engmas

What is engmas the plural of?
Engmas is the plural of engma.

Words near engmas in the dictionary

  1. englyns
  2. engma
  3. Engman
  4. Engmann
  5. Engmans
  6. engmas
  7. ENGO
  8. engobe
  9. engobes
  10. engolden
  11. engoldened

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