alga

See also: algă and algā

English

Etymology

From Latin alga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæl.ɡə/

Noun

alga (plural algae)

1. (biology) Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic.

Usage notes

• Algaes is a non-standard plural.

Hyponyms

• (photosynthetic aquatic organism): seaweed; green alga (Chlorophyta and Charophyta) and red alga (Rhodophyta and Glaucophyta) in Plantae); brown alga (Phaeophyceae) and yellow-green algae (Xanthophyceae), Haptophyta, and Cryptomonada in Chromista), and blue-green alga (Cyanobacteria)
• microalga

Translations

any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms

• Albanian: algë (sq) f
• Arabic: طُحْلُب m (ṭuḥlub)
• Armenian: ջրիմուռ (hy) (ǰrimuṙ)
• Azerbaijani: yosun (az)
• Belarusian: во́дарасць f (vódarascʹ)
• Bulgarian: водора́сло (bg) n (vodoráslo)
• Burmese: မှော် (my) (hmau)
• Catalan: alga (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水藻 (zh) (shuǐzǎo), 藻類／藻类 (zh) (zǎolèi), 藻类 (zh) (zǎolèi)

• Cornish: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: řasa (cs) f
• Danish: alge c
• Dutch: alg (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: algo
• Estonian: vetikas
• Faroese: alga f
• Finnish: levä (fi)
• French: algue (fr)
• Galician: alga (gl) f
• Georgian: წყალმცენარე (c̣q̇almcenare)
• German: Alge (de) f
• Greek: φύκος (el) n (fýkos)
• Greenlandic: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: אַצָּה (he) f (atsá)
• Hindi: शैवाल (hi) m (śaivāl), सिवार (hi) m or f (sivār), सेवार (hi) f (sevār), शैवाल (hi) m (śaivāl)
• Hungarian: moszat (hu)
• Icelandic: þörungur m
• Ido: algo (io)
• Interlingue:
• Irish: alga m, feamainn f
• Italian: alga (it) f
• Japanese: 藻類 (ja) (そうるい, sōrui)
• Kazakh: балдыр (baldyr)
• Khmer: សារាយ (km) (saaraay), ព្រាំ (km) (proam)
• Korean: 조류 (ko) (joryu)
• Kyrgyz: балыр (ky) (balır)
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• Lao: ສາຫລ່າຍ (sā lāi)
• Latvian: aļģe f
• Lithuanian: dumbliai
• Luxembourgish: Alg f
• Macedonian: а́лга f (álga)
• Malay: alga
• Manx: algey
• Navajo: tátłʼid
• Northern Sami: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: alge (no) m

  Nynorsk: alge m

• Persian: آلگ (ālg), جلبک (fa) (jolbak), چغزلاوه (čaγazlāve)
• Polish: glon (pl) m
• Portuguese: alga (pt) f
• Romanian: algă (ro) f
• Russian: во́доросль (ru) f (vódoroslʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: please add this translation if you can
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: алга f

  Roman: alga f

• Slovak: riasa f
• Slovene: álga (sl) f
• Spanish: alga (es) f
• Swedish: alg (sv) c
• Tagalog: lumot
• Tajik: обсабза (obsabza), обгиёҳ (obgiyoh)
• Telugu: శైవలము (te) (śaivalamu)
• Thai: สาหร่าย (th) (sǎa-ràai)
• Turkish: alg (tr), su yosunu (tr)
• Ukrainian: во́дорость f (vódorostʹ)
• Uzbek: suvoʻt (uz)
• Vietnamese: tảo (vi)
• Walloon: ale (wa) f
• Welsh: alga (cy) m

Further reading

• Algae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Gaal, Gala, agal, gala

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin alga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈal.ɣə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈal.ɣa]

Noun

alga f (plural algues)

1. alga

Further reading

• “alga” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Faroese

Etymology

From Latin alga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalka/
• Rhymes: -alka

Noun

alga f (genitive singular algu, plural algur)

1. alga

Declension

Declension of alga
f1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	alga	algan	algur	algurnar
accusative	algu	alguna	algur	algurnar
dative	algu	alguni	algum	algunum
genitive	algu	algunnar	alga	alganna

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Galician

Etymology

From Latin alga.

Noun

alga f (plural algas)

1. alga

Derived terms

• alga parda
• alga verde
• alga vermella

Further reading

• “alga”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

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Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English alga, from Latin alga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalˠ(ə)ɡə/

Noun

alga m (genitive singular alga, nominative plural algaí)

1. (biology) alga

   Synonym: feamainn

Declension

Declension of alga

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative alga algaí Vocative a alga a algaí Genitive alga algaí Dative alga algaí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-alga na halgaí Genitive an alga na n-algaí Dative leis an alga don alga leis na halgaí

Derived terms

• algach (“algal”, adjective)
• algeolaíocht f (“algology”)
• algeolaí m (“algologist”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
alga	n-alga	halga	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “alga”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “alga”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm=

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin alga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.ɡa/

Noun

alga f (plural alghe)

1. seaweed

Anagrams

• gala

Further reading

• alga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *alg-, *alǵ- (“to be dirty, be slimy; frog; duckweed”). Cognate with Norwegian dialectal alka (“to dirty, soil”), Norwegian ulk (“frog, slime”), Low German ulk (“frog”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.ɡa/, [ˈäɫ̪ɡä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.ɡa/, [ˈälɡä]

Noun

alga f (genitive algae); first declension

1. Seaweed; plants that grow in freshwater.
2. (figuratively) Something of little worth.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	alga	algae
Genitive	algae	algārum
Dative	algae	algīs
Accusative	algam	algās
Ablative	algā	algīs
Vocative	alga	algae

Derived terms

• algensis
• algōsus

Descendants

Descendants of alga in other languages

• Catalan: alga
• English: alga
• French: algue
• Galician: alga

• German: Alge
• Italian: alga
• Portuguese: alga
• Spanish: alga

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Latvian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

alga f (4th declension)

1. salary, wage
2. reward
3. pay

   algu saraksts ― pay bill

Declension

Declension of alga (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	alga	algas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	algu	algas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	algas	algu
dative (datīvs)	algai	algām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	algu	algām
locative (lokatīvs)	algā	algās
vocative (vokatīvs)	alga	algas

Synonyms

• algojums
• atalgojums
• atmaksa
• atlīdzinājums
• atlīdzība
• gājiens
• izpeļņa
• maksa
• peļņa
• samaksa
• uzturs

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Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂elgʷʰ-eh₂, from *h₂elgʷʰ-. Cognate with Latvian àlga (“salary”), Old Prussian ālgas (“salary”, Gsg.), Ancient Greek ἀλφή (alphḗ, “gain, profit”), Sanskrit अर्घ (arghá, “worth, value, price”).

Noun

algà f stress pattern 4

1. pay, salary

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Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin algam, accusative of alga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈal.ɡa]

Noun

alga f (plural algas)

1. alga, seaweed
   • c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 50r.

     […] Et la ſu olor es como de alga marina. ¬ dend toma eſte nóbre

     […] Its smell is like that of seaweed, thus the name it has been given.}}

Derived terms

• alguenno

Descendants

• Spanish: alga

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin alga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈaɫɡɐ]
• IPA^(key): [ˈawɡa]
• IPA^(key): [ˈaɻɡa]
• Rhymes: -awɡa

• Hyphenation: al‧ga

Noun

alga f (plural s)

1. alga (any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms similar to plants or bacteria)

Derived terms

• algáceo

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin alga.

Noun

alga f (Cyrillic spelling алга)

1. alga

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin alga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalɡa/ [ˈal.ɣ̞a]

Noun

alga f (plural algas)

1. alga

Derived terms

• algal
• algar
• algoso

Further reading

• Template:R:DRAE 2001