agua

Asturian

Asturian Wikipedia has an article on:

agua

Wikipedia ^ast

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɡwa/,

Noun

agua f (uncountable)

1. water

Related terms

• acuariu
• acuáticu
• acuosu
• agüeru

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Verb

agua

1. Pre-2016 spelling of agúa.

Chamorro

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish agua.

Noun

agua

1. water

References

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

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish agua.

Noun

agua

1. water

References

• Chavacano Translation Dictionary

Chibcha

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɣua/

Noun

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)

References

• 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.

Fala

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese agua, from Latin aqua.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɡwa/

Noun

agua f (countable and uncountable, plural aguas)

1. water
2. rain

   Synonym: lluvia

References

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

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡwa/,

Noun

agua f (uncountable)

1. (proscribed) Alternative form of auga

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish agua, from Latin aqua, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂.

Noun

agua f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling אגּואה)

1. water

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• auga, augua

Etymology

From Latin aqua (“water”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡwa/

Noun

agua f

1. water
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 23 (facsimile):

     Como deꝯ fez uỹo dagua […]

     Just as God turned water into wine

Descendants

• Fala: agua
• Galician: auga, agua
• Portuguese: água, auga (see there for further descendants)

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin aqua, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɡwa/

Noun

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.

Descendants

• Ladino: agua / אגוה
• Spanish: agua (see there for further descendants)

Palenquero

Noun

agua

1. water

References

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

Portuguese

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Verb

agua

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

Etymology 2

Noun

agua f (plural aguas)

1. Obsolete spelling of água

Sinacantán

Noun

agua

1. moon

References

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

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

agua

Wikipedia ^es

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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.

Alternative forms

• awa (eye dialect)

Noun

agua f (plural aguas)

1. water

   Quiere un vaso de agua fresca.

   He wants a glass of cold water.

2. body of water

   Synonym: cuerpo de agua

3. rain

   Synonyms: lluvia, aguacero

4. (archaic) river, stream

   Synonyms: río, arroyo

5. (slang, in the plural) urine

   Synonym: orina

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

Usage notes

• Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.

  el agua, un agua

• They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.
• In Guatemala, since agua prototypically refers to a soft drink, the phrase agua pura is used to refer to water.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Chavacano: agua
• Media Lengua: awa
• Palenquero: agua
• Papiamentu: awa
• → Hiligaynon: agwa
• → Tagalog: agwa

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

agua

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

Further reading

• “agua”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Verb

-agua (infinitive kuagua)

1. to divine, foretell, predict

Conjugation