Bulgarian or Serbo-Croatian loanword, compare Bulgarian темян (temjan), тамян (tamjan, “incense”), Serbo-Croatian tàmjan (“incense, frankincense”), from
темя́н (temján, “incense”) + -уга (-uga), a dialectal form of standard тамя́н (tamján). IPA(key): [tɛmɛˈnuɡɐ] темену́га • (temenúga) f (relational adjective