arg

arg

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Aragonese.
2. (mathematics) The symbol for the argument function, which finds the polar angle of a complex number.

• (mathematics): The symbol arg is defined in ISO 80000-2:2019 to represent the principal value of the argument function. However, arg is often used to represent the multi-valued argument function, with Arg representing the principal value specifically.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Aragonese terms

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arg (plural args)

1. (programming, informal) An argument; a value passed as a parameter.

   The first arg needs to be an int.

arg (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of arg. (“argent”).

arg

1. (informal) Expressing frustration or disappointment.

• Gra, gar, grá, RAG, Rag, Gar, RGA, rag, GAR, agr-

• argull (Tosk), ergjëz (standard), ergjiz

Arbëreshë; from Proto-Albanian *arga, from Proto-Indo-European *Horgʰi (compare Armenian ոջիլ (oǰil)).

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arg m

1. (Arbëresh) nit

From Old Danish argh, from Old Norse argr, from Proto-Germanic *argaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃orǵʰ-, *h₃erǵʰ- (“to copulate”).

arg (neuter argt, plural and definite singular attributive arge)

1. fierce, stubborn, unyielding, ardent
2. (rare) bitter, bad, angry

• “arg” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “arg” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

From Proto-Finnic *arka, from Proto-Germanic *argaz. Compare German arg.

arg (genitive ara, partitive arga, comparative arem, superlative kõige arem)

1. cowardly, shy

From Middle High German arc, from Old High German arg.

Compare Hunsrik aarich, Pennsylvania German arrig, Central Franconian ärch, and Dutch erg. Also etymologically linked is English eerie.

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arg (strong nominative masculine singular arger, comparative ärger, superlative am ärgsten)

1. bad

   im Argen liegen ― to be in disorder

2. intense
3. wicked
4. disgusting

Capitalized Arg- with any ending other than -s is in fact the (nominalized) adjective arg, not the noun Arg.

• “arg” in Duden online
• “arg” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Old Irish orcaid.

arg (present analytic argann, future analytic argfaidh, verbal noun argain, past participle argtha)

1. (transitive) destroy, plunder

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “arg”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “oirgid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

arg

1. alternative form of argh

From Proto-West Germanic *arg, from Proto-Germanic *argaz.

arg

1. bad, wrong

• Middle Dutch: arch
  • Dutch: erg
    • Afrikaans: erg
    • → Caribbean Javanese: èreg

• “arg”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• IPA^(key): /ɑrɡ/,

arg (Northumbrian)

1. alternative form of earg

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “arg”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• arc, arga

From Proto-West Germanic *arg, see also Old English earg, Old Norse argr.

• IPA^(key): /arɣ/, /arɡ/

arg

1. bad, wicked, godless
2. cowardly, honourless

• argī

• Middle High German: arc
  • Alemannic German: arg, arig

    Swabian: arg

  • Bavarian: oarg
  • Central Franconian: ärch, arch (Moselle Franconian)

    Hunsrik: aarich

  • German: arg
  • Luxembourgish: uerg
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Palatine German: aarich, arch, arich

    Pennsylvania German: arig, arrig

  • → Medieval Latin: arga

• Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

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From Old Swedish argher, from Old Norse argr, from Proto-Germanic *argaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃orǵʰ-, *h₃erǵʰ- (“to copulate”).

• IPA^(key): /arj/,

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• Rhymes: -arj

arg (comparative argare, superlative argast)

1. angry, mad

   Jag blev arg på honom

   I got mad at him

   Elin blev mycket arg när hennes hund kissade i köket

   Elin was very angry when her dog peed in the kitchen

• vred
• ilsken

• arg in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• arg in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• arg in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

From Proto-Finnic *arka.

arg

1. shy, timid

From English argument.

• IPA^(key): /arɡ/

arg m (plural argiau)

1. (grammar, mathematics) argument
2. (mathematics) amplitude

• arg uniongyrchol (“direct argument”)

• (physics) osgled (“amplitude”)