oga

See also: Appendix:Variations of "oga"

English

Etymology

From Yoruba ọ̀gá (“chief, master”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊ.ɡə/
• (General American) enPR: ōʹgə, IPA^(key): /ˈoʊ.ɡə/
• Rhymes: -əʊɡə
• Homophone: ogre (non-rhotic)

Noun

oga (plural ogas)

1. (West Africa) A chief, employer, or superior.
   • 2013, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, chapter 50, in Americanah:

     Nigeria is not a nation of sandwich-eating people and his last oga did not eat bread in the afternoon.

Anagrams

• GAO, G.O.A., AGO, G. O. A., ago, AOG, OAG, Gao, goa, Goa, GOA

Elfdalian

Etymology

From Old Norse auga, from Proto-Norse *ᚨᚢᚷᛟ (*augo), from Proto-Germanic *augô, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ- (“eye; to see”).

Noun

oga n

1. eye

Estonian

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oga

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Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *oka, possibly borrowed from Proto-Baltic. Cognates include Finnish oas, oka (dialectal), Votic õgaz, Ingrian oas, Livvi ovas, Ludian ogas and Veps ogah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoɡ̊ɑ/, [ˈoɡ̊ɑ]
• Rhymes: -oɡɑ
• Hyphenation: o‧ga

Noun

oga (genitive oga, partitive oga)

1. (botany) thorn, prickle

   Synonym: okas

2. (zootomy) spine (a strong and sharp thorn-like covering, bone or similar formation)
3. spike, barb

   Riided jäid okastraadi ogadesse kinni. ― Clothes got caught in the spikes of the barbed wire.

Declension

Declension of oga (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		oga	ogad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	oga
genitive			ogade
partitive		oga	ogasid
illative		okka ogasse	ogadesse
inessive		ogas	ogades
elative		ogast	ogadest
allative		ogale	ogadele
adessive		ogal	ogadel
ablative		ogalt	ogadelt
translative		ogaks	ogadeks
terminative		ogani	ogadeni
essive		ogana	ogadena
abessive		ogata	ogadeta
comitative		ogaga	ogadega

Synonyms

• (thorn, prickle): okas

Derived terms

• ohakas

Compounds

• ogaannoona
• ogahai
• ogajätke
• ogamelon
• ogaputk
• ogarai
• ogasiilik
• ogaujur
• ogaõun

Related terms

• okas

References

• oga in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “oga”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Gun

Pronunciation

• Audio (Nigeria):

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Noun

ogá (plural ogá lẹ) (Nigeria)

1. bow (weapon)

Related terms

• ogaba

Hausa

Etymology

From Yoruba ọ̀gá (“chief”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔò.ɡáː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔò.ɡáː]

Noun

ògā m (possessed form ògan)

1. boss, someone in charge