agra

See also: Agra, ágra, and agrā

English

Alternative forms

• a ghrá

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Irish a (vocative particle) + lenited form of grá (“love”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɡɹɑː/

Noun

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 2014, p. 21:

     But their mother sent our one notes. Give that to your mam a ghrá.

Anagrams

• Raga, agar, raag, raga

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈa.ɣɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈa.ɣɾa]

Adjective

agra

1. feminine singular of agre

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Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɣɾa̝/

Noun

agra m (plural agras)

1. large apportion of farmland, usually comprising a number of different properties and fields
   • 1300, J. I. Fernández de Viana y Vieites (ed.), 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

• Agra
• Agras
• Agrela
• Agrelo
• Agriña

Related terms

• agro

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “agra”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• “agra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish acra, acrae (“act of suing, prosecuting, bringing an action, urging a claim; action, suit, process”), verbal noun of ad·gair (“sues, prosecutes, impleads, accuses”).

Noun

agra m (genitive singular agra, nominative plural agraí)

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

Declension

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

Derived terms

• agra atharthachta m (“paternity suit”)
• agra dlí m (“lawsuit”)
• agra leabhail m (“libel suit”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
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

• 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

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Italian

Adjective

agra f

1. feminine singular of agro

Anagrams

• gara

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Ladino

Adjective

1. sour

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Latvian

Adjective

agra

1. (deprecated template usage) genitive singular masculine form of agrs
2. (deprecated template usage) nominative singular feminine form of agrs

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɡɾa/ [ˈa.ɣ̞ɾa]

Adjective

agra

1. feminine singular of agro

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Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch hagel.

Noun

agra

1. bullet

   Synonym: kugru

2. shot (metal balls used as ammunition)

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Venetian

Adjective

agra f

1. feminine singular of agro