agra
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Irish a (vocative particle) + lenited form of grá (“love”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editagra (uncountable)
- (Ireland) Dear, darling (as a term of endearment). [from 18th c.]
- 1847, Anthony Trollope, The Macdermots of Ballycloran:
- Kathleen, agra, […] bring me a glass of sperrits, will you?
- 2013, Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Faber & Faber, published 2014, page 21:
- But their mother sent our one notes. Give that to your mam a ghrá.
Anagrams
editCatalan
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editagra
Fingallian
editEtymology
editFrom Irish a (vocative particle) + lenited form of grá (“love”).
Noun
editagra (uncountable)
- dear
- 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):
- Agra,
- Dear.
- 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):
Galician
editEtymology
edit13th century. From Latin ager, agrum, from Proto-Italic *agros, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editagra f (plural agras)
- large apportion of farmland, usually comprising a number of different properties and fields
- 1300, J. I. Fernández de Viana y Vieites, editor, Colección diplomática del monasterio de Santa María de Pantón, Lugo: Deputación, page 42:
- vendo dous leyros que iazen en a agra de Cas dos Ferreyros
- I sell two fields that are in the agra of Cas dos Ferreiros
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editReferences
edit- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “agra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “agra”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “agra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “agra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “agra”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Irish acra, from Old Irish acrae (“act of suing, prosecuting, bringing an action, urging a claim; action, suit, process”), verbal noun of ad·gair (“sues, prosecutes, impleads, accuses”).
Noun
editagra m (genitive singular agra, nominative plural agraí)
Declension
editDeclension of agra
Derived terms
edit- agra atharthachta m (“paternity suit”)
- agra dlí m (“lawsuit”)
- agra leabhail m (“libel suit”)
Mutation
editIrish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
agra | n-agra | hagra | t-agra |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “agra”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “acra(e)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “suit”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “agra”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
Italian
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editagra f
Anagrams
editLadino
editAdjective
editagra (Latin spelling, masculine agro, masculine plural agros, feminine plural agras)
Latvian
editAdjective
editagra
Old Javanese
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Sanskrit अग्र (agra, “tip, point”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editagra
Derived terms
edit- agrabhāwanā
- agracūḍāmaṇi
- agrakeśara
- agramaṅgala
- agramaṇḍala
- agramukha
- agranagara
- agranāsikā
- agraparwata
- agrapaṅkti
- agraprāṇa
- agrasenāpati
- agratara
- agraśekhara
- agraśeṣa
- daityāgra
- krūrāgra
- kuśāgra
- kuṭāgra
- mahāpaṇḍitāgra
- nakhāgra
- nāsikāgra
- parwatāgra
- purohitāgra
- sañjatāgra
- sutāgra
- tomarāgra
- tīkṣṇāgra
- uttamāgra
- wiprāgra
- śilāgra
- śūlāgra
Related terms
editDescendants
editFurther reading
edit- "agra" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.
Portuguese
editPronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: a‧gra
Adjective
editagra
Spanish
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editagra
Sranan Tongo
editEtymology
editNoun
editagra
Venetan
editAdjective
editagra f
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