ga

Clipping of Irish Gaeilge

ga

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Irish.

• Wiktionary's coverage of Irish terms

ga

1. rain

• transnewguinea.org, citing both Wilson (1969) and McElhanon and Voorhoeve (1970)
• James Farr, Robert Larson, A Selective Word List in Ten Different Binandere Languages
• Papers in New Guinea Linguistics (1971), issues 8-9, pages 80-81, using a wordlist furnished by Capell

ga

1. (Mpakwithi) mouth

ga

1. (transitive, Mpakwithi) to poke
2. (transitive, Mpakwithi) to peel

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 185

From Proto-Nuristani *gāwā, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gā́wš, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa/

ga (Sanu)^[1]

1. cow

• IPA^(key): /ɡa/

ga (Thai spelling กงา)

1. I

ga

1. and

• M.P. Wilkinson, Djambarrpuyŋu: A Yolŋu Variety of Northern Australia (1991), p. 393
• Margit Bowler and Vanya Kapitonov, Towards a typology of quantification in Australian languages (2018), p. 17

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-ga.

ga

1. saddle

• Ross Perlin (2019) A Grammar of Trung‎^[2], Santa Barbara: University of California

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• Rhymes: -aː
• IPA^(key): /ɣaː/

ga

1. inflection of gaan:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative
   4. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive

   ga! ― go!

ga

1. metal
2. money

• IPA^(key): /ŋaː/

ga

1. only

ga

1. but

• ia

ga

1. duck

From French gare.

• IPA^(key): /ɡa/

ga

1. station, terminal

From Proto-Torres-Banks *ɣaya, an irregular reflex of Proto-Oceanic *kawaʀ, metathesis of *wakaʀ (“root”). Cognate with Mwotlap ga and Lo-Toga gi, and also with Proto-Polynesian *kawa (whence Tongan kava).

• IPA^(key): /ɣa/

ga

1. kava plant, Piper methysticum
2. kava, an intoxicating beverage made from the kava plant.

• p.507 of: Alexandre François (2010), Pragmatic demotion and clause dependency: On two atypical subordinating strategies in the Lo-Toga and Hiw (Torres, Vanuatu), in Isabelle Bril (ed.), Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy (Studies in Language Companion Series 121), 499–548. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

ga

1. Alternative form of (eng)gak

• gae, gath

Apparently a conflation of Old Irish gath,^[1] goth (“spear”)^[2] with the synonymous gae (“spear”),^[3] from Proto-Celtic *gaisos (“spear”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰays- (“spear”). Cognate with Welsh gwayw and Latin gaesum (a Gaulish loanword) as well as Old English gār.

• IPA^(key): /ɡa/
• (Aran) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɞhə/^[4]
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /ɡaː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɡah/^[5]

ga m (genitive singular ga or gaoi, nominative plural gathanna or gaoi or gaoithe)

1. spear (long stick with a sharp tip), dart
2. dart, sting

   Chuir an cat a gha ann. ― The cat clawed him.

3. ray (beam of light or radiation)
4. (geometry) radius (line segment between any point on the circumference of a circle and its center; length of this segment)
5. (medicine) suppository
6. (fishing) gaff

• Alternative genitive singular: gaoi
• Alternative plural forms: gaoi, gaoithe

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ga”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “ga”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 341
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ga”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “ga”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

ga

1. The hiragana syllable が (ga) or the katakana syllable ガ (ga) in Hepburn romanization.

• IPA^(key): /ˈⁿɡa/

ga

1. earth; land

ga

1. (Eastern Lombard) there (in the expression of "there be")

• (Western Lombard): ghe

ga m or f

1. (Eastern Lombard) him; her/it (dative case)
2. (Eastern Lombard) them (dative case)

• (Western Lombard): ghe

• IPA^(key): /ɡa/

ga

1. when

• gdy

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “ga”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “ga”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

ga (ga⁵／ga⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄍㄚ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 價／价

ga

1. Nonstandard spelling of gā.
2. Nonstandard spelling of gá.
3. Nonstandard spelling of gǎ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of gà.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

ga

1. though, although
   • V'eh yn fer toshee dy feer, ga nagh row yn ennym er. He was leader in deed though not in name.
2. albeit

gâ

1. inflection of gâen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive

ga

1. (Early Middle English, Northern) Alternative form of gon (“to go”)

From Proto-Torres-Banks *ɣaya, an irregular reflex of Proto-Oceanic *kawaʀ, metathesis of *wakaʀ (“root”). Cognate with Hiw ga and Lo-Toga gi, and also with Proto-Polynesian *kawa (whence Tongan kava).

• IPA^(key): /ɣa/

ga (determinate naga)

1. kava plant, Piper methysticum
2. kava, an intoxicating beverage made from the kava plant.

• François, Alexandre. 2024. Online Mwotlap–English–French cultural dictionary. Electronic files. Paris: CNRS. (Pdf version) – entry ga.

From Proto-Iranian *gā́wš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gā́wš, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. Related to Persian گاو (gâv).

• Rhymes: -ɑː

ga ?

1. ox
2. bull

• gav

ga

1. simple past of gi

gā

1. inflection of gān:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive

From Sanskrit किम् (kim, “what? why? (interrogative particle)”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡa/

ga (indefinite, Perso-Arabic spelling گہ)

1. any
2. what (kind), which

• Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “ga”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎^[3], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “ga”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ɡa/

ga (indefinite, Perso-Arabic spelling گہ)

1. what
2. that

• Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “ga”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎^[4], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ɡa/

ga (conjunction, Perso-Arabic spelling گہ)

1. Complementizer/relativizer
2. that
3. which
4. who
5. where

• Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “ga”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎^[5], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ɡa/

ga (modal, Perso-Arabic spelling گہ)

1. Marker of inferred, assumed or presumed knowledge

• Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “ga”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎^[6], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

Onomatopoeic.

ga

1. sound made by geese

ga

1. him, it (direct object)

   Bha sinn ga thuigsinn. ― We understood it.

2. her, it (direct object)

   Cha bhi mi ga tachairt. ― I won't be meeting her.

• As him/it lenites the following word.
• As her/it adds the prefix h- to the following word if it begins with a vowel.

  An robh thu ga h-ithe? ― Did you eat it?

ga (Cyrillic spelling га)

1. of him (clitic genitive singular of ȏn (“he”))
2. him (clitic accusative singular of ȏn (“he”))
3. of it (clitic genitive singular of òno (“it”))
4. it (clitic accusative singular of òno (“it”))

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kogъda.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa/
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ga

ga

1. introduces either a dependent or interrogative clause in reference to time; when

ga

1. when, as; while (at the time that)
2. when; if (under the condition that)
3. when; because

ga (not comparable)

1. sometime (at some undetermined time)

• Lorentz, Friedrich (1908) Slovinzisches Wörterbuch‎^[7] (in German), volume 1, Saint Petersburg: ОРЯС ИАН, page 253

ga

1. Romanization of 𒂵 (ga)

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɡa/ [ɡɐ]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ga

Possibly a shortened form of baga, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ba. Cognate with Cebuano ba and Malagasy va.

ga (Baybayin spelling ᜄ) (dialectal, Batangas, Quezon, Mindoro, Marinduque)

1. marks a sentence as interrogative

   Synonyms: ba, (dialectal) baga

Influenced by Baybayin character ᜄ (ga).

ga (Baybayin spelling ᜄ)

1. the name of the Latin-script letter G/g, in the Abakada alphabet

   Synonyms: (in the Filipino alphabet) dyi, (in the Abecedario) ge

• “ga”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*ba₅”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

ga

1. skunk

• Gamarra A., Enrique, Villagra S., Inocencio (1980) Llëbo ñaglo lok kibokwogo ëre e lanyo = Vocabulario ilustrado teribe-español‎^[8] (overall work in Teribe and Spanish), Instituto Nacional de Cultura & Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 9

ga

1. third-person singular present indicative of gaver

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɣaː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ɣaː˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ɣaː˧˧]

From French gare.

ga (𥩤)

1. train station

From French gaz (“gas”), from Dutch gas.

ga (𪵤)

1. gas, such as propane and/or butane, used for a gas stove; compare khí (“gas as a chemical substance”)

   bình ga ― a gas tank

2. carbon dioxide used for a carbonated drink

   nước ngọt có ga ― a sweet carbonated drink

3. lighter fluid

   Bật lửa này hết ga rồi.

   This lighter's run out of fluid.

4. (automotive) the ignited mixture of fuel and air that powers an engine; not to be confused with xăng (“gasoline”)

   xe bị rồ/oà ga ― a motorcycle with a broken throttle that accelerates while the twistgrip is released

   Nổ nãy giờ mà chẳng có ga gì hết !

   I've been trying to start my bike for hours and it's still not working!

   chạy tẹt ga ― to step on it/on the gas; to floor it; to put your foot down; to run full throttle

ga

1. (Southern Vietnam, especially Mekong Delta) Pronunciation spelling of ra (“bed sheet”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡaː/

ga

1. Soft mutation of ca.

ga

1. jackrabbit

From Mandarin 尕 (gǎ).

• IPA^(key): [ka]

ga

1. small (in size, number, etc.)

   je-ge jjhakai zhungo kan-la xaige ga-li.

   This country is much smaller than China.

   (Quoted in Sandman, p. 146)

   dangga gejhai-mu ga-de shai-la ha xaitang-li da gu qhi-de yi-zek ra mi-li.

   None of our schoolchildren goes to Chinese school [i.e. schools where the medium of education is Mandarin] at the very young age.

   (Quoted in Sandman, p. 355)

• Juha Janhunen, Marja Peltomaa, Erika Sandman, Xiawu Dongzhou (2008) Wutun (LINCOM's Descriptive Grammar Series), volume 466, LINCOM Europa, →ISBN
• Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun‎^[9], University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN

ga

1. Alternative form of gae
   • 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 133, line 8:

     An Paudeen hay ga her a mighty smugal.

     And Paddy, he gave her a mighty smack.

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 133

• IPA^(key): /ɡà/

gà

1. to set up a collapsible device; to open out; to spread out

   Bá mi ga agbòjò yìí ― Help me open this umbrella

2. to gape open

   Ilẹ̀ á gà jù ọ́ lọ ― The ground shall open and swallow you up

• ga before a direct object

• IPA^(key): /ɡà/

1. to set someone up for a joke; (literally) to make someone believe what may not be true of themselves in a joking manner

   mo ń gà ẹ́ ni ― I am only setting you up for a joke

2. (transitive) to tickle

   Synonyms: rìn, rìn ní ìgàkè, gà léèégìnnì, rìn léèégìnnì

• ìgàkè (“tickle”)
• èégìnnì (“tickle”)
• ẹ̀fẹ̀ (“joke”)
• àwàdà (“comedy”)

• ga before a direct object

• IPA^(key): /ɡā/

ga

1. to be tall

   Antonym: kúrú

2. (idiomatic) to be beyond that which can be tolerated or described

Yoruba Varieties and Languages - ga (“to be tall”)
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Language Family	Variety Group	Variety/Language	Location	Words
Proto-Itsekiri-SEY	Southeast Yoruba	Eastern Àkókó	Àkùngbá Àkókó	gùn
		Ìjẹ̀bú	Ìjẹ̀bú Òde	gọn
			Ìkòròdú	gọn
			Ṣágámù	gọn
			Ẹ̀pẹ́	gọn
		Ìkálẹ̀	Òkìtìpupa	go
		Oǹdó	Oǹdó	go
		Usẹn	Usẹn	gùn
	Ìtsẹkírì		Ìwẹrẹ	go
Proto-Yoruba	Central Yoruba	Èkìtì	Àdó Èkìtì	ga
			Àkúrẹ́	ga
			Ọ̀tùn Èkìtì	ga
		Ifẹ̀	Ilé Ifẹ̀	go
		Òkè Igbó	Òkè Igbó	go
	Northwest Yoruba	Àwórì	Èbúté Mẹ́tà	ga
		Èkó	Èkó	ga
		Ìbàdàn	Ìbàdàn	ga
		Ìbàràpá	Igbó Òrà	ga
		Ìbọ̀lọ́	Òṣogbo	ga
		Ìlọrin	Ìlọrin	ga
		Oǹkó	Ìtẹ̀síwájú LGA	ga
			Ìwàjówà LGA	ga
			Kájọlà LGA	ga
			Ìsẹ́yìn LGA	ga
			Ṣakí West LGA	ga
			Atisbo LGA	ga
			Ọlọ́runṣògo LGA	ga
		Ọ̀yọ́	Ọ̀yọ́	ga
		Standard Yorùbá	Nàìjíríà	ga
			Bɛ̀nɛ̀	ga
	Northeast Yoruba/Okun	Ìyàgbà	Yàgbà East LGA	ga
		Owé	Kabba	ga
	Ede Languages/Southwest Yoruba	Cábɛ̀ɛ́	Cábɛ̀ɛ́	gù
			Tchaourou	gù, ga
		Ìcà	Agoua	gù, ga
		Ìdàácà	Igbó Ìdàácà	gù
		Ọ̀họ̀rí/Ɔ̀hɔ̀rí-Ìjè	Ìkpòbɛ́	ga
			Kétu	gù
			Onigbolo	ga
			Yewa	ga
		Ifɛ̀	Akpáré	ga, gù
			Atakpamé	ga, gù
			Boko	ga
			Tchetti	ga, gù
		Northern Nago	Kambole	ɡã
			Manigri	gù
Note: This amalgamation of terms comes from a number of different academic papers focused on the unique varieties and languages spoken in the Yoruboid dialectal continuum which extends from eastern Togo to southern Nigeria. The terms for spoken varieties, now deemed dialects of Yorùbá in Nigeria (i.e. Southeast Yorùbá, Northwest Yorùbá, Central Yorùbá, and Northeast Yorùbá), have converged with those of Standard Yorùbá leading to the creation of what can be labeled Common Yorùbá (Funṣọ Akere, 1977). It can be assumed that the Standard Yorùbá term can also be used in most Nigerian varieties alongside native terms, especially amongst younger speakers. This does not apply to the other Nigerian Yoruboid languages of Ìṣẹkírì and Olùkùmi, nor the Èdè Languages of Benin and Togo.

• IPA^(key): /ɡá/

gá

1. to stand aloof
2. to become tired or fed up

   Synonym: gọ́

   ọ̀rọ̀ náàá gá mi ― This matter has caused me to be fed up

From Proto-Iranian *gā́wš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *gā́wš, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws. Related to Persian گاو (gâv).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɑ]
• Hyphenation: ga

ga

1. ox
2. bull
3. (astronomy, astrology) Taurus

From Proto-Tai *p.qaːᴬ (“leg”). Cognate with Thai ขา (kǎa), Northern Thai ᨡᩣ, Lao ຂາ (khā), Lü ᦃᦱ (ẋaa), Shan ၶႃ (khǎa), Tai Nüa ᥑᥣᥴ (xáa), Ahom 𑜁𑜡 (khā), Bouyei gal.

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ka˨˦/
• Tone numbers: ga¹
• Hyphenation: ga

ga (Sawndip forms 𮛑 or 胩 or 跏 or 軻, 1957–1982 spelling ga)

1. (anatomy) leg
2. leg (of a chair, table, etc.)

ga (1957–1982 spelling ga)

1. quarter of (a butchered four-legged animal)
2. one of a pair of long, thin objects (shoes, socks, gloves, chopsticks, etc.)