chaga

Borrowed from Russian ча́га (čága), Komi-Zyrian тшак (čak, “mushroom, growth”).

chaga (uncountable)

1. A parasitic fungus of trees, usually birch, found on the circumboreal region of the Northern hemisphere, Inonotus obliquus.
2. The irregular conk of this fungus, used in East European folk medicine to treat a number of conditions.

• (Inonotus obliquus): chaga mushroom

• Inonotus obliquus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Inonotus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Inonotus obliquus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• gacha

• Hyphenation: cha‧ga

13th century. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chaga (“sore, wound”), from Latin plāga (“injury”), from plangō, from Proto-Indo-European *plak-. Cognate with Portuguese chaga and Spanish llaga.

chaga f (plural chagas)

1. sore (injured, infected, inflamed, or diseased patch of skin)

   Synonym: úlcera

2. open wound

   Synonym: ferida

   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 151:

     talen aa huña de fora ataa a danadura do crauo que lixo nen podreen nenhũa non posa ficar na chaga por nenhũa gisa

     they shall cut the hoof until the nail injury, so that no dirt or rottenness remain in the wound under no circumstance

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “chaga”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “chaga”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chaga”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “chaga”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chaga”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

chaga

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

chaga

1. land

Inherited from Latin plāga (“injury”). Doublet of praga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃa.ɡa/

chaga f (plural chagas)

1. sore (injured, infected, inflamed, or diseased patch of skin)

   Synonym: praga

• chagar

• Galician: chaga
• Portuguese: chaga (see there for further descendants)

• Universo Cantigas - "chaga"

• Hyphenation: cha‧ga

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chaga (“sore”), from Latin plāga (“injury”), from plangō (“strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *plak-.

Compare Galician chaga, Spanish llaga, French plaie, Italian piaga, Romanian plagă. Doublet of praga.

chaga f (plural chagas)

1. sore (injured, infected, inflamed, or diseased patch of skin)

   Synonyms: ferida, úlcera

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: tcaga

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

chaga

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