agra

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

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (UK) 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, published 2014, page 21:
      But their mother sent our one notes. Give that to your mam a ghrá.

Anagrams

Catalan

Pronunciation

Adjective

agra

  1. feminine singular of agre

Fingallian

Etymology

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

Noun

agra (uncountable)

  1. dear

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaɣɾa̝/

Noun

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

Derived terms

  • Agra
  • Agras
  • Agrela
  • Agrelo
  • Agriña

References

Irish

Etymology

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).

Noun

agra m (genitive singular agra, nominative plural agraí)

  1. (law) suit
  2. alternative form of agairt (plea; vengeance, retribution)

Declension

Declension of agra (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative agra agraí
vocative a agra a agraí
genitive agra agraí
dative agra agraí
forms with the definite article
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

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.

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈa.ɡra/
  • Rhymes: -aɡra
  • Hyphenation: à‧gra

Adjective

agra f

  1. feminine singular of agro

Anagrams

Ladino

Adjective

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

  1. sour

Latvian

Adjective

agra

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

Old Javanese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.ɡra/
  • Rhymes: -ɡra
  • Hyphenation: a‧gra

Noun

agra

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

Derived terms

  • kāgra
  • makāgra
  • maṅagra
  • pinakāgra
  • agrabhāwanā
  • agracūḍāmaṇi
  • agrakeśara
  • agramaṅgala
  • agramaṇḍala
  • agramukha
  • agranagara
  • agranāsikā
  • agraparwata
  • agrapaṅkti
  • agraprāṇa
  • agrasenāpati
  • agratara
  • agraśekhara
  • agraśeṣa
  • daityāgra
  • krūrāgra
  • kuśāgra
  • kuṭāgra
  • mahāpaṇḍitāgra
  • nakhāgra
  • nāsikāgra
  • parwatāgra
  • purohitāgra
  • sañjatāgra
  • sutāgra
  • tomarāgra
  • tīkṣṇāgra
  • uttamāgra
  • wiprāgra
  • śilāgra
  • śūlāgra

Descendants

  • Javanese: ꦲꦒꦿ (agra)

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈa.ɡɾɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈa.ɡɾa/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈa.ɡɾɐ/ [ˈa.ɣɾɐ]

  • Hyphenation: a‧gra

Adjective

agra

  1. feminine singular of agro

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

agra

  1. feminine singular of agro

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch hagel.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aɡɾa/, [a̠ɡɾa̠], [ɑ̟ɡɾɑ̟]

Noun

agra

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

Venetan

Adjective

agra f

  1. feminine singular of agro