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agra

See also: Agra, ágra, aġra, agrā, Agrą, and Âgrâ

English

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Etymology

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From Irish a (vocative particle) + lenited form of grá (“love”).

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agra (uncountable)

  1. (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.

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Catalan

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Adjective

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agra

  1. feminine singular of agre

Fingallian

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Etymology

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From Irish a (vocative particle) + lenited form of grá (“love”).

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agra (uncountable)

  1. dear

Galician

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Etymology

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13th century. From Latin ager, agrum, from Proto-Italic *agros, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros.

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agra f (plural agras)

  1. 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

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Irish

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Etymology

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From 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”).

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agra m (genitive singular agra, nominative plural agraí)

  1. (law) suit
  2. Alternative form of agairt (“plea; vengeance, retribution”)

Declension

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Declension of agra (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative agra agraí
vocative a agra a agraí
genitive agra agraí
dative agra agraí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an t-agra na hagraí
genitive an agra na n-agraí
dative leis an agra
don agra 		leis na hagraí

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of agra
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
agra n-agra hagra t-agra

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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Italian

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agra f

  1. feminine singular of agro

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Ladino

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agra (Latin spelling, masculine agro, masculine plural agros, feminine plural agras)

  1. sour

Latvian

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Adjective

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agra

  1. inflection of agrs:
    1. genitive singular masculine
    2. nominative singular feminine

Old Javanese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Sanskrit अग्र (agra, “tip, point”).

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agra

  1. top, summit, point
  2. prominent, first, chief, best

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Descendants

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  • Javanese: ꦲꦒꦿ (agra)

Further reading

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  • "agra" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

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  • Hyphenation: a‧gra

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agra

  1. feminine singular of agro

Spanish

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  • IPA(key): /ˈaɡɾa/ [ˈa.ɣ̞ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -aɡɾa
  • Syllabification: a‧gra

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agra

  1. feminine singular of agro

Sranan Tongo

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Dutch hagel.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈaɡɾa/, [ˈa̠ɡɾa̠], [ˈɑ̟ɡɾɑ̟]

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agra

  1. bullet
    Synonym: kugru
  2. shot (metal balls used as ammunition)

Venetan

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agra f

  1. feminine singular of agro
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