agulha

Occitan

Etymology

From Late Latin acūcula, a diminutive of Latin acus (“needle, pin”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɡyʎo/

• (file)

Noun

agulha f (plural agulhas)

1. needle

Derived terms

• agulhada
• agulhon
• agulhonar

Descendants

• → Italian: aguglia
• → Sicilian: agugghia, avugghia; 'gugghia, 'vugghia; augghia, vugghia, ugghia

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese agulla, from Late Latin acūcula, a diminutive of Latin acus (“needle, pin”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɡu.ʎɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɡu.ʎɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɡu.ʎa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈɡu.ʎɐ/ [ɐˈɣu.ʎɐ]

• (Caipira) IPA^(key): [aˈɡuja]
• Hyphenation: a‧gu‧lha

Noun

agulha f (plural agulhas)

1. needle (implement for sewing)
2. needle (thin device for indicating measurements on a dial or graph)
3. (botany) pine needle
4. (architecture) spire (tapering structure built on a roof or tower)

   Synonym: flecha

5. (rail transport) switch; point (movable section of railroad track)
6. (figurative) piquancy

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:agulha.