engma means the velar nasal consonant found in such words as song or wink. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 79 out of 100.
engma is pronounced /ˈɛŋ.mə/.
Etymology
Perhaps a blend of eng + agma.
noun
- The velar nasal consonant found in such words as song or wink.“The velar nasal (engma) is transcribed as /ng/.”
- 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."”