fraga

Galician

Etymology

13th century, from Old Galician-Portuguese, from an Iberian Vulgar Latin fraga, plural of fragum, from fragōsus (“rough”), from fragor, from frangō (“break, shatter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾa.ɣɐ/

Noun

fraga f (plural fragas)

1. an isolated forest with deciduous trees, herbs, mosses, lichens and a diverse fauna
   • 1948, Revista de Guimarães, volumes 58-60, page 303:

     Iba sempre a cabalo, pois tiña que andar máis de catro légoas por fragas, devesas e caborcos.

     He always rode a horse, as he had to travel over four leagues through isolated forests, sparse woods and gullies.

2. rock, outcrop

Derived terms

Related terms

• Fragoso
• fragueiro

References

• “fraga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “fraga” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “fraga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “fraga” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “fraga” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin frāga, noun use of the plural form of Classical Latin frāgum (“strawberry”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

fraga f (plural fraghe)

1. (obsolete or regional) Synonym of fragola (“strawberry”)

Further reading

• fraga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Noun

frāga

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of frāgum

References

• “fraga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fraga”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fraga in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “fraga”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Occitan

Alternative forms

• ahraga (Gascony)
• fresa (Limousin)

Etymology

From Latin frāga, from frāgum. Compare Catalan fraula, Italian fragola, among others.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾa.ɣɔ/

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• Hyphenation: fra‧ga

Noun

fraga f (plural fragas)

1. strawberry

   Synonym: majofa f

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *frāgu, from Proto-Germanic *frēgō. Related to Old English fræġn.

Noun

frāga f

1. question

   Synonym: frāgan

Descendants

• Middle High German: vrāge
  • Bavarian: Fråg
  • German: Frage
    • → Yiddish: פֿראַגע (frage)
  • Hunsrik: Froh
  • Luxembourgish: Fro
  • Vilamovian: frög

Old Saxon

Etymology

Related to Old English fræġn and the verb frignan (“to ask”), from Proto-West Germanic *fregnan.

Noun

frāga f

1. question

Descendants

• German Low German: Fraag, Froge

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• frágua

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese fraga (compare Galician fraga), from Iberian Vulgar Latin fraga, plural of fragum (compare also Catalan and Occitan frau), from fragōsus (“rough”), from fragor, from frangō (“break, shatter”); cf. also Latin fragilis.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɡɐ
• Hyphenation: fra‧ga

Noun

fraga f (plural fragas)

1. cliff

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

fraga f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of fragă

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English flag or Dutch vlag.

Noun

fraga

1. flag