Noga
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The word Noga may be used to describe:
- A name
- Given name of Jewish females or rarely males, meaning brightness, glow; also used in Hebrew to refer to planet VenusVenusVenus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Moon, it is the brightest natural object in the night sky, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6, bright enough to cast shadows...
. - Surname of Slavic nations and Polynesian nations
- Given name of Jewish females or rarely males, meaning brightness, glow; also used in Hebrew to refer to planet Venus
- A slavic word meaning leg (especially the lower part, including the foot).
- The NadsatNadsatNadsat is a fictional register or argot used by the teenagers in Anthony Burgess' novel A Clockwork Orange. In addition to being a novelist, Burgess was also a linguist and he used this background to depict his characters as speaking a form of Russian-influenced English...
word noga was used to refer to the central character's feet or legs, in the book, A Clockwork OrangeA Clockwork OrangeA Clockwork Orange is a 1962 dystopian novella by Anthony Burgess. The novel contains an experiment in language: the characters often use an argot called "Nadsat", derived from Russian....
. The word is a derivative of the Russian нога, having the same meaning.
- The Nadsat
- A Hebrew word (נוגה)
- The Hebrew name for the planet Venus
- A Hebrew word meaning "very bright light"
- Noga, Israel, a moshav in the Lakhish Regional Council in Israel
- SS Noga, an ocean liner
- Lady NogaCharacters of Sluggy FreelanceThis is a list of major characters from the popular webcomic Sluggy Freelance.-Torg:A hapless freelance web designer and an incorrigible punster, Torg is the protagonist in most storylines, having appeared in more than half of the site's comics at last count...
, a character of the popular webcomicWebcomicWebcomics, online comics, or Internet comics are comics published on a website. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers or often in self-published books....
Sluggy FreelanceSluggy FreelanceSluggy Freelance is a popular, long-running daily webcomic written and drawn by Pete Abrams. The comic has over 100,000 daily readers and premiered on August 25, 1997...
. - Al NogaAl NogaAlapati Noga is a former American football defensive lineman who played seven seasons in the National Football League....
, former player for the Minnesota VikingsMinnesota VikingsThe Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings joined the National Football League as an expansion team in 1960...
. - Niko (Falaniko) Noga, former player for the St. Louis CardinalsSt. Louis CardinalsThe St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the Central Division in the National League of Major League Baseball. The Cardinals have won eleven World Series championships, the most of any National League team, and second overall only to...
(NFL) - Pete Noga, former player for the St. Louis Cardinals (NFL)