doga

See also: Appendix:Variations of "doga"

English

The downward-facing dog pose with a dog

Etymology

Blend of dog +‎ yoga.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdoʊ.ɡə/
• Rhymes: -əʊɡə

Noun

doga (uncountable)

1. The practice of yoga with pet dogs.
   • 2009 April 9, Bethany Lyttle, “Bonding With Their Downward-Facing Humans”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 November 2020:

     Ms. Bryan, the author in Seattle, said: “It’s a new field so there can be confusion about what doga is and isn’t.”

Further reading

• Doga (yoga) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Goad, Goda, dago, goad

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin doga (“vat”), from Ancient Greek δοχή (dokhḗ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈdo̞.ɣə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central) [ˈdɔ.ɣə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈdo.ɣa]

Noun

doga f (plural dogues)

1. (of a barrel) stave
2. (Valencia) fat roll

   Synonym: sacsó

Further reading

• “doga”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “doga”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “doga”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Chamorro

Verb

doga

1. comprising.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdoɡa]

Noun

doga f

1. mastiff

Declension

Declension of doga (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	doga	dogy
genitive	dogy	dog
dative	doze	dogám
accusative	dogu	dogy
vocative	dogo	dogy
locative	doze	dogách
instrumental	dogou	dogami

Further reading

• “doga”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “doga”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “doga”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔ.ɡa/, (traditional) /ˈdo.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -ɔɡa, (traditional) -oɡa
• Hyphenation: dò‧ga, (traditional) dó‧ga

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Etymology 1

From Latin doga, from Ancient Greek δοχή (dokhḗ), from Proto-Indo-European *doḱ-éh₂, from *deḱ-.

Noun

doga f (plural doghe)

1. slat (of bed)
2. floorboard
3. stave

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

doga

1. inflection of dogare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• goda

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *deḱ-

Ancient Greek δέχομαι (dékhomai)

Ancient Greek -ή (-ḗ)

Ancient Greek δοχή (dokhḗ)bor.

Latin doga

From Ancient Greek δοχή (dokhḗ), from Proto-Indo-European *doḱ-éh₂, from *deḱ-.

Noun

doga f (genitive dogae); first declension

1. vat
2. vessel

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	doga	dogae
genitive	dogae	dogārum
dative	dogae	dogīs
accusative	dogam	dogās
ablative	dogā	dogīs
vocative	doga	dogae

Descendants

Descendants

• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: doagã
  • Romanian: doagă
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Dalmatian: duag
  • Italian: doga
  • Sicilian: duga, dua, duva
    • → Maltese: dugħ
  • Venetan: dóa, doga, dova
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: dove
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Emilian: duga, dua
  • Lombard: doa
  • Piedmontese: doa, dova, doja
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: dova ⇒ duèla
  • Old French: doue, dove
    • French: douve
    • ⇒ Old French: douelle (diminutive)
      • → Galician: doela, duela, duvela
      • → Portuguese: aduela
      • → Spanish: duela
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: doga
  • Occitan: doga (most dialects), ⇒ doguèla, doèla

    Gascon: doa, dova, ⇒ dolha

    Languedocien: doa, ⇒ doèlha (Foishenc)

    Nord-Occitan: dova

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: doga, adoga, adova
• Borrowings:
  • → Albanian: dhogë
  • → Middle Dutch: duge
    • Dutch: duig
  • → Middle High German: dūge
    • German: Daube

References

• “doga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "doga", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “doga”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Polish

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔ.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -ɔɡa
• Syllabification: do‧ga

Noun

doga m animal

1. genitive/accusative singular of dog

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdoɡa/ [ˈd̪o.ɣ̞a]
• Rhymes: -oɡa
• Syllabification: do‧ga

Etymology 1

Noun

doga f (plural dogas)

1. A female Dogo Argentino.

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *deḱ-

Ancient Greek δέχομαι (dékhomai)

Ancient Greek -ή (-ḗ)

Ancient Greek δοχή (dokhḗ)bor.

Late Latin dogalbor.

Spanish doga

Learned borrowing from Late Latin doga (“vessel”), borrowed from Ancient Greek δοχή (dokhḗ). Doublet of duela.

Noun

doga f (plural dogas)

1. synonym of duela (“stave”).

Further reading

• “doga”, 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

Volapük

Noun

doga

1. genitive singular of dog