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See also: aguá, água, and aguà

Asturian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaɡwa/ [ˈa.ɣ̞wa]
  • Rhymes: -aɡwa
  • Syllabification: a‧gua

Noun

agua f (plural agües)

  1. water

Derived terms

Catalan

Pronunciation

Verb

agua

  1. superseded spelling of agúa, deprecated in the 2016 orthographic reform by the Institute of Catalan Studies

Chamorro

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish agua.

Noun

agua

  1. water
    Synonym: hånom

References

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish agua.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaɡwa/, [ˈa.ɡwa]
  • Rhymes: -aɡwa
  • Hyphenation: a‧gua

Noun

agua

  1. water

References

Chibcha

Pronunciation

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.
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Fala

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese agua, from Latin aqua.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

agua f (countable and uncountable, plural aguas)

  1. water
  2. (meteorology) rain (condensed water falling from a cloud)
    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
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Galician

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (standard) /ˈaɡwa/ [ˈɑ.ɣ̞wɐ]
  • IPA(key): (gheada) /ˈaħwa/ [ˈɑ.ħwɐ]

 
  • Rhymes: -aɡwa
  • Rhymes: -aħwa

  • Hyphenation: a‧gua

Noun

agua f (uncountable)

  1. (proscribed) alternative form of auga (“water”)

Ladino

Alternative forms

Etymology

    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-Italic *akʷā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂. See English ea.

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

    agua f (Hebrew spelling אגּואה)

    1. water
      • 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar‎, page 237:
        Kale ajustado a esto un poko de agua i un poko de arina…
        A little water and a little flour needs to be added to this…

    References

    • “agua”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasure of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim
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    Old Galician-Portuguese

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

    Inherited from Latin aqua (“water”). Cognate with Old Spanish agua.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    agua f (plural aguas)

    1. water

    Descendants

    • Fala: agua
    • Galician: auga, agua
    • Portuguese: água, auga (regional)
      • Angolar: awa
      • Annobonese: aua
      • Guinea-Bissau Creole: iagu
      • Indo-Portuguese: ag
      • Kabuverdianu: agu
      • Korlai Creole Portuguese: ag
      • Kristang: agu
      • Macanese: águ
      • Papiamentu: awa
      • Principense: awa
      • Sãotomense: awa

    References

    Old Spanish

    Etymology

    Inherited from Latin aqua, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water”). Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese agua.

    Pronunciation

    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

    References

    • Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “agua”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume I, Chapel Hill, page 18
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    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. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of água.

    Sinacantán

    Noun

    agua

    1. moon

    References

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

    Spanish

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    Pronunciation

    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

    Noun

    agua f (plural aguas)

    1. water
      agua destilada ― distilled water
      Quiere un vaso de agua fresca.
      He wants a glass of cold water.
      • 2021 July 21, Juan Garzon, “Los mejores celulares Android de 2021”, in CNN en Español‎:
        Este celular tiene una hermosa pantalla, un cuerpo que es resistente al agua (IP68), su procesador Snapdragon 888 (o Exynos 2100), con 12 GB o 16 GB de RAM, ofrece una experiencia muy fluida y es el primer celular de la serie Galaxy S que es compatible con un S Pen, el stylus de Samsung.
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    2. body of water
      Synonym: cuerpo de agua
    3. (meteorology) rain (condensed water falling from a cloud)
      Synonyms: lluvia, aguacero
    4. (archaic) river; stream
      Synonyms: río, arroyo
    5. (slang, in the plural) urine
      Synonym: orina
      • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 318:
        Toda médica o médico que se respeta, no pronuncia diagnóstico alguno sin tener a la vista las aguas del enfermo.
        No self-respecting physician announces a diagnosis without taking into account the patient’s urine.
    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
    • Before feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like agua, the singular definite article takes the form of el (otherwise reserved for masculine nouns) instead of the usual la: el agua. This includes the contracted forms al and del (instead of a la and de la, respectively): al agua, del agua.
    This also applies to the indefinite article, which takes the form of un, which is otherwise used with masculine nouns (although the standard feminine form una also occurs): un agua or una agua. The same is true with determiners algún/alguna and ningún/ninguna, as well as for numerals ending with 1 (e.g., veintiún/veintiuna).
    However, if another word intervenes between the article and the noun, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (la, una etc.) are used: la mejor agua, una buena agua.
    • In these cases, el and un are not masculine but feminine, deriving from Latin illa and una, respectively, even though they are identical in form to the corresponding masculine singular articles. Thus, they are allomorphs of the feminine singular articles la and una.
    • The use of these allomorphs does not change the gender agreement of the adjectives modifying the feminine noun: el agua única, un(a) agua buena.
    • In the plural, the usual feminine plural articles and determiners (las, unas, etc.) are always used.
    • In Guatemala, since agua prototypically refers to a soft drink, the phrase agua pura is used to refer to water.
    Derived terms
    Descendants

    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

    Swahili

    Etymology

    From Proto-Bantu [Term?].

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    -agua (infinitive kuagua)

    1. to divine, foretell, predict

    Conjugation

    More information Conjugation of, Positive present ...

    Derived terms

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