Ga

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ga"

Translingual

Symbol

Ga

2. (chemistry) Chemical symbol for gallium.
4. (metrology, astronomy) Symbol for giga-annum(s): gigayears.

   Meronyms: ka < Ma

English

Proper noun

Ga

1. A Niger-Congo language spoken in Ghana and Togo.

Symbol

Ga

2. (chemistry) Chemical symbol for gallium.
4. (metrology, astronomy) Symbol for giga-annum(s): gigayears.

   Synonyms: Gyr, Gy

6. (metrology, astronomy) Symbol for gigayears ago (giga-annums ago), a unit of time equal to 10⁹ years in the past.

   Alternative forms: Gya, gya

Noun

Ga (plural Ga or Gas)

1. A member of a particular ethnic group in Ghana and Togo.
   • 2018 August 30, “Letter from Africa: Should Ghanaian women be limited to three babies?”, in BBC News‎^[1]:

     Among the Ga, the people who are indigenous to Ghana's capital, Accra, a woman is entitled to a live sheep on the delivery of her 10th child. The word for it is "nyongmato". […] Lots of very important people among the Gas can testify to this. Unfortunately, I have not met any woman who has actually got a live sheep for having given birth to 10 children.

Translations

language

• Cherokee: Ꭶ (chr) (ga)

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for Ga, gaa ⁠

Anagrams

• A-G, A. G., A.G., A/G, AG, Ag, Ag., ag