agua

Inherited from Latin aqua, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɡwa/ [ˈa.ɣ̞wa]
• Rhymes: -aɡwa
• Syllabification: a‧gua

agua f (plural agües)

1. water

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əˈɣu.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aˈɣu.a]

agua

1. superseded spelling of agúa, deprecated in the 2016 orthographic reform by the Institute of Catalan Studies

Borrowed from Spanish agua.

agua

1. water

   Synonym: hånom

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

From Spanish agua.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɡwa/, [ˈa.ɡwa]
• Rhymes: -aɡwa
• Hyphenation: a‧gua

agua

1. water

• Chavacano Translation Dictionary

• IPA^(key): /aɣua/

agua

1. grain, seed or small fruit of some plants
2. maize grain
3. (anatomy) temple (part of the skull on the side of the forehead)

• Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.
• Quesada Pacheco, Miguel Ángel. 1991. El vocabulario mosco de 1612. En estudios de Lingüística Chibcha. Programa de investigación del departamento de lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica. Serie Anual Tomo X San José (Costa Rica). Universidad de Costa Rica.

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese agua, from Latin aqua.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɡwa/
• Rhymes: -aɡwa
• Syllabification: a‧gua

agua f (countable and uncountable, plural aguas)

1. water
2. (meteorology) rain (condensed water falling from a cloud)

   Synonym: lluvia

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN
• Apuntes socio-históricos y lingüísticos sobre a Fala do Val de Xalima

• Hyphenation: a‧gua

agua f (uncountable)

1. (proscribed) alternative form of auga (“water”)

• agwa

Inherited from Old Spanish agua, from Latin aqua (compare Catalan aigua, French eau, Galician auga, Italian acqua, Occitan aiga, Portuguese água, Romanian apă, Sardinian abba), from Proto-Italic *akʷā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂. See English ea.

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agua f (Hebrew spelling אגּואה)

1. water
   • 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar‎^[2], page 237:

     Kale ajustado a esto un poko de agua i un poko de arina…

     A little water and a little flour needs to be added to this…

• “agua”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasure of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim

• auga, augua

Inherited from Latin aqua (“water”). Cognate with Old Spanish agua.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡwa/

agua f (plural aguas)

1. water
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 23 (facsimile):

     Como deꝯ fez uỹo dagua […]

     Just as God turned water into wine […]

• Fala: agua
• Galician: auga, agua
• Portuguese: água, auga (regional)
  • Angolar: awa
  • Annobonese: aua
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: iagu
  • Indo-Portuguese: ag
  • Kabuverdianu: agu
  • Korlai Creole Portuguese: ag
  • Kristang: agu
  • Macanese: águ
  • Papiamentu: awa
  • Principense: awa
  • Sãotomense: awa

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “agua”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “agua”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2025) “agua”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: University of A Coruña, →ISSN

Inherited from Latin aqua, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water”). Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese agua.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɡwa/

agua f (plural aguas)

1. water
   • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 5v. b.

     Vino ioſep aſos ermanos. e priſierõ le & deſpoiarõle el palio. e echarōle en el pozo. & este pozo era bazio e no yauia agua.

     Joseph came to this brothers; they imprisoned him and unclothed him and threw him into the well, and this well was empty and had no water.

   • Idem, f. 13v. b.

     Tornarõ ſe todas las aguas ẽ ſãgre.

     And all of the waters turned into blood.

• Ladino: agua, אגואה
• Spanish: agua, awa (eye dialect)
  • Chavacano: agua
  • Media Lengua: awa
  • Palenquero: agua
  • Papiamentu: awa
  • → Hanunoo: agwa
  • → Hiligaynon: agwa
  • → Tagalog: agwa

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “agua”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume I, Chapel Hill, page 18

agua

1. water

• Manuel Diaz-Campos, The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics (2011, →ISBN)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

agua

1. inflection of aguar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

agua f (plural aguas)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of água.

agua

1. moon

• Vocabularios de la lengua xinca de Sinacantan (1868, D. Juan Gavarrete)

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɡwa/ [ˈa.ɣ̞wa]

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• Rhymes: -aɡwa
• Syllabification: a‧gua

Inherited from Old Spanish agua, from Latin aqua (compare Catalan aigua, French eau, Galician auga, Italian acqua, Occitan aiga, Portuguese água, Romanian apă, Sardinian abba), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂. See English ea.

• awa (eye dialect)

agua f (plural aguas)

1. water

   agua destilada ― distilled water

   Quiere un vaso de agua fresca.

   He wants a glass of cold water.

   • 2021 July 21, Juan Garzon, “Los mejores celulares Android de 2021”, in CNN en Español‎^[3]:

     Este celular tiene una hermosa pantalla, un cuerpo que es resistente al agua (IP68), su procesador Snapdragon 888 (o Exynos 2100), con 12 GB o 16 GB de RAM, ofrece una experiencia muy fluida y es el primer celular de la serie Galaxy S que es compatible con un S Pen, el stylus de Samsung.

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2. body of water

   Synonym: cuerpo de agua

3. (meteorology) rain (condensed water falling from a cloud)

   Synonyms: lluvia, aguacero

4. (archaic) river; stream

   Synonyms: río, arroyo

5. (slang, in the plural) urine

   Synonym: orina

   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 318:

     Toda médica o médico que se respeta, no pronuncia diagnóstico alguno sin tener a la vista las aguas del enfermo.

     No self-respecting physician announces a diagnosis without taking into account the patient’s urine.

6. (Guatemala) pop, soda (soft drink)

   Synonyms: soda, (Chile) bebida, (El Salvador, Spain) gaseosa, (Mexico) refresco

   Voy a comprar algo de agua.

   I’m gonna buy some pop.

   Deme agua Pepsi.

   Give me Pepsi (soda).

7. (Latin America) infusion

   Synonym: infusión

• Before feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like agua, the singular definite article takes the form of el (otherwise reserved for masculine nouns) instead of the usual la: el agua. This includes the contracted forms al and del (instead of a la and de la, respectively): al agua, del agua.

This also applies to the indefinite article, which takes the form of un, which is otherwise used with masculine nouns (although the standard feminine form una also occurs): un agua or una agua. The same is true with determiners algún/alguna and ningún/ninguna, as well as for numerals ending with 1 (e.g., veintiún/veintiuna).

However, if another word intervenes between the article and the noun, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (la, una etc.) are used: la mejor agua, una buena agua.

• In these cases, el and un are not masculine but feminine, deriving from Latin illa and una, respectively, even though they are identical in form to the corresponding masculine singular articles. Thus, they are allomorphs of the feminine singular articles la and una.
• The use of these allomorphs does not change the gender agreement of the adjectives modifying the feminine noun: el agua única, un(a) agua buena.
• In the plural, the usual feminine plural articles and determiners (las, unas, etc.) are always used.

• In Guatemala, since agua prototypically refers to a soft drink, the phrase agua pura is used to refer to water.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

agua

1. inflection of aguar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “agua”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From Proto-Bantu [Term?].

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-agua (infinitive kuagua)

1. to divine, foretell, predict

Conjugation of -agua
Positive present -naagua Subjunctive -ague Negative -agui Imperative singular agua
Infinitives
Positive kuagua Negative kutoagua
Imperatives
Singular agua Plural agueni
Tensed forms
Habitual huagua Positive past positive subject concord + -liagua Negative past negative subject concord + -kuagua
Positive present (positive subject concord + -naagua) Singular Plural 1st person ninaagua/naagua tunaagua 2nd person unaagua mnaagua 3rd person m-wa(I/II) anaagua wanaagua other classes positive subject concord + -naagua
Negative present (negative subject concord + -agui) Singular Plural 1st person siagui hatuagui 2nd person huagui hamwagui 3rd person m-wa(I/II) haagui hawaagui other classes negative subject concord + -agui
Positive future positive subject concord + -taagua Negative future negative subject concord + -taagua
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -ague) Singular Plural 1st person niague tuague 2nd person uague mwague 3rd person m-wa(I/II) aague waague other classes positive subject concord + -ague
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -siague Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngeagua Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singeagua Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngaliagua Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singaliagua
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -aagua) Singular Plural 1st person naagua twaagua 2nd person waagua mwaagua 3rd person m-wa(I/II) aagua waagua m-mi(III/IV) waagua yaagua ji-ma(V/VI) laagua yaagua ki-vi(VII/VIII) chaagua vyaagua n(IX/X) yaagua zaagua u(XI) waagua see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) kwaagua pa(XVI) paagua mu(XVIII) mwaagua
Perfect positive subject concord + -meagua "Already" positive subject concord + -meshaagua "Not yet" negative subject concord + -jaagua "If/When" positive subject concord + -kiagua "If not" positive subject concord + -sipoagua Consecutive kaagua / positive subject concord + -kaagua Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kaague
Object concord (indicative positive) Singular Plural 1st person -niagua -tuagua 2nd person -kuagua -waagua/-kuagueni/-waagueni 3rd person m-wa(I/II) -mwagua -waagua m-mi(III/IV) -uagua -iagua ji-ma(V/VI) -liagua -yaagua ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kiagua -viagua n(IX/X) -iagua -ziagua u(XI) -uagua see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kuagua pa(XVI) -paagua mu(XVIII) -muagua Reflexive -jiagua
Relative forms General positive (positive subject concord + (object concord) + -agua- + relative marker) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -aguaye -aguao m-mi(III/IV) -aguao -aguayo ji-ma(V/VI) -agualo -aguayo ki-vi(VII/VIII) -aguacho -aguavyo n(IX/X) -aguayo -aguazo u(XI) -aguao see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -aguako pa(XVI) -aguapo mu(XVIII) -aguamo Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + (object concord) + -agua) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -yeagua -oagua m-mi(III/IV) -oagua -yoagua ji-ma(V/VI) -loagua -yoagua ki-vi(VII/VIII) -choagua -vyoagua n(IX/X) -yoagua -zoagua u(XI) -oagua see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -koagua pa(XVI) -poagua mu(XVIII) -moagua
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.

• Nominal derivations:
  • aguzi