gaga

See also: gagá, gagà, ğağa, ga-ga, and -gaga

English

Adjective

gaga (comparative more gaga, superlative most gaga)

1. (informal) Mentally senile.

   The elderly patients in the hospital were going gaga.

2. (informal) Crazy.

   You might go gaga if you stare at this screen too long.

   • 1975, Bellow, Saul, Humboldt's Gift, Viking, page ??:

     Should he lose it once and for all, he and Kathleen would need lots of money. Also, he had said to me, you could be gaga in a tenured chair at Princeton, and would anybody notice?

3. (informal) Infatuated.

   The girls were going gaga over the handsome new boy who joined the class.

Usage notes

• As demonstrated in the example sentences above, gaga is often preceded by the verb go.

Translations

senile

• Bulgarian: изкуфял (bg) (izkufjal)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 老糊涂 (zh)

• Finnish: pöpi (fi), vanhuudenhöperö (fi), hullu (fi)
• French: gaga (fr), neuneu (fr), zinzin (fr)

• Latin: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: gagá (pt)
• Russian: ста́рческий (ru) (stárčeskij), дря́хлый (ru) (drjáxlyj), сени́льный (ru) (senílʹnyj)
• Spanish: gc-gc

crazy

• Catalan: boig (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狂热的, 疯疯癫癫的

• Finnish: pöpi (fi), hullu (fi)
• French: gaga (fr), neuneu (fr), zinzin (fr)
• German: verrückt (de), bekloppt (de)
• Hiligaynon: buang

• Italian: pazzo (it) m
• Latin: insanus m
• Norwegian: gal (no)
• Portuguese: pirado (pt), biruta (pt), lelé, tantã (pt), abilolado (pt) m
• Russian: слабоу́мный (ru) (slaboúmnyj), вы́живший из ума́ (výživšij iz umá), сумасше́дший (ru) (sumasšédšij), чо́кнутый (ru) (čóknutyj), спя́тивший (ru) (spjátivšij), шизану́тый (ru) (šizanútyj), рехну́вшийся (ru) (rexnúvšijsja)
• Spanish: loco (es) m, pirado (es), trastornado (es)
• Tagalog: baliw (tl)

infatuated

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狂热的

• Czech: poblázněný
• Finnish: hullu (fi)

• French: gaga (fr)
• Latin: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: очаро́ванный (ru) (očaróvannyj), обалде́вший (ru) (obaldévšij) (colloquial)
• Spanish: enamorado (es)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.ɡa/

Adjective

gaga (plural gagas)

1. (informal) gaga (senile)
2. (informal) gaga (crazy)
3. (informal) gaga (infatuated)

Synonyms

senile

• fou
• foufou
• gâteux
• neuneu
• zinzin

crazy

• fou
• foufou
• neuneu
• zinzin

Further reading

• “gaga” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Ga

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɡa/

Noun

gaga (plural gagai)

1. any ant with large mandibles, such as a soldier ant or driver ant

See also

• tsatsu
• tsatsutsuru
• gbense

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Japanese

Romanization

gaga

1. Rōmaji transcription of がが

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Turkish

gagalar

Etymology

• From Proto-Turkic

Noun

gaga (definite accusative gagayı, plural gagalar)

1. bill, beak

Declension

declension of gaga

	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	gaga	gagalar
definite accusative (belirtme)	gagayı	gagaları
dative (yönelme)	gagaya	gagalara
locative (bulunma)	gagada	gagalarda
ablative (ayrılma)	gagadan	gagalardan
genitive (tamlayan)	gaganın	gagaların

Derived terms

• gagalamak