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

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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.

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

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

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
case singular plural
nominative agra agraí
vocative a agra a agraí
genitive agra agraí
dative agra agraí
forms with the definite article
case 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

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

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 singular masculine
    2. nominative singular feminine

Old Javanese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

agra

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

Derived terms

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

 

  • Hyphenation: a‧gra

Adjective

agra

  1. feminine singular of agro

Spanish

Pronunciation

Adjective

agra

  1. feminine singular of agro

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch hagel.

Pronunciation

Noun

agra

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

Venetan

Adjective

agra f

  1. feminine singular of agro