agra

• a ghrá, agrah

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈɡɹɑː/

agra (uncountable)

1. (Ireland) Dear, darling (as a term of endearment).
   • 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.

• raag, agar, Raga, raga, Agar, Gara

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

agra

1. feminine singular of agre

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

agra (uncountable)

1. dear
   • 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):

     Agra,

     Dear.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɣɾa̝/

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

• Agra
• Agras
• Agrela
• Agrelo
• Agriña

• agro

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

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”).

agra m (genitive singular agra, nominative plural agraí)

1. (law) suit
2. Alternative form of agairt (“plea; vengeance, retribution”)

• agra atharthachta m (“paternity suit”)
• agra dlí m (“lawsuit”)
• agra leabhail m (“libel suit”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “agra”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “acra(e)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “suit”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “agra”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

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

agra f

1. feminine singular of agro

• Agar, gara, raga

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

1. sour

agra

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

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

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

agra

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

• Javanese: ꦲꦒꦿ (agra)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɡɾa/
• Rhymes: -aɡɾa
• Syllabification: a‧gra

agra

1. feminine singular of agro

Borrowed from Dutch hagel.

agra

1. bullet

   Synonym: kugru

2. shot (metal balls used as ammunition)

agra f

1. feminine singular of agro