vaga

Deverbal from vagar (“to wander”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈba.ɣə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈva.ɣə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈva.ɣa]

vaga f (plural vagues)

1. strike (cessation of work)

• “vaga”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “vaga”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

vaga

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

From Old French vague, from Old Norse vágr (“sea”), from Proto-Germanic *wēgaz (“wave, storm”).^[1]

vaga f (plural vagas)

1. wave (sea undulation)

   Synonym: onda

2. swell (a long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased)

   Synonym: mareira

From Latin vagus.

vaga f sg

1. feminine singular of vago

vaga

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

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “vaga”, 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), “vaga”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “vaga”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈva.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Hyphenation: và‧ga

vaga

1. feminine singular of vago

vaga

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

• vaga: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwa.ɡa]
• vaga: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvaː.ɡa]
• vagā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwa.ɡaː]
• vagā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvaː.ɡa]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vagā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of vagō

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vaga

1. inflection of vagus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

vagā

1. ablative feminine singular of vagus

Cognate with Latvian vaga (“chunk of dirt”), Old Prussian wagnis (“ploughshare”).

vagà f stress pattern 4

1. furrow, groove, channel
2. scooped chuck of earth
3. watercourse (direction of flow)

• vagóti (“to plow, to burrow”)

• “vaga”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
• “vaga”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025

• vvaka

Borrowed from Italian vacare.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaː.ɡa/

vaga (imperfect jvaga)

1. to become vacant

• Rhymes: -aɡɐ
• Homophone: baga (Northern Portugal)
• Hyphenation: va‧ga

From Old French vague, from Old Norse vágr (“sea”), from Proto-Germanic *wēgaz (“wave, storm”).

vaga f (plural vagas)

1. (archaic, poetic) wave

Back-formation from vagar (“to vacate”).^[1][2][3]

vaga f (plural vagas)

1. vacancy, opening
2. parking space
3. slot, spot
4. place (as in a course or a job)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vaga

1. feminine singular of vago

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vaga

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

From Old Norse vaka.

• IPA^(key): [ʋɑ̀ːɣa]

vaga

1. to be awake

Borrowed from German Waage.

• IPA^(key): /ʋǎːɡa/
• Hyphenation: va‧ga

vága f (Cyrillic spelling ва́га)

1. balance, scales (device for weighing goods for sale)

Borrowed from German Waage.

• IPA^(key): /ʋáːɡa/

vȃga f

1. balance, scales (device for weighing goods for sale)

   Synonym: tẹ̑htnica

2. weight

   Synonym: tẹ́ža

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɡa/ [ˈba.ɣ̞a]
• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Syllabification: va‧ga

vaga f (plural vagas)

1. female equivalent of vago

vaga

1. feminine singular of vago

vaga

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

vaga

1. inflection of vag:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

From Proto-Oceanic *waga, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *waŋka, possibly from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baŋkaq.

• IPA^(key): /βaᵑɡa/

vaga

1. canoe

• Terry Crowley et al, The Oceanic Languages (2013), page 366
• Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.