gaga
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gaga (comparative more gaga, superlative most gaga)
- (informal) Mentally senile.
- The elderly patients in the hospital were going gaga.
- (informal) Crazy.
- You might go gaga if you stare at this screen too long.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, Viking, page ??:
- Should he lose it once and for all, he and Kathleen would need lots of money. Also, he had said to me, you could be gaga in a tenured chair at Princeton, and would anybody notice?
- (informal) Infatuated.
- The girls were going gaga over the handsome new boy who joined the class.
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gaga (uncountable)
- Alternative form of ga-ga (“game resembling dodgeball”)
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gaga
Barngarla edit
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gaga
References edit
- Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad (2019). Barngarlidhi Manoo (Speaking Barngarla Together) (Barngarla Alphabet & Picture Book). p.50-56.
Part 1 Part 2 - Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad and Clamor Wilhelm Schürmann (2018). Online Barngarla Dictionary.
- Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad (2016). Barngarla Aboriginal Language Dictionary App.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.regenr8.dictionary.barngarla
https://apps.apple.com/au/app/barngarla/id1424856161 - Goldsworthy, Anna (2014), Voices of the land: In Port Augusta, an Israeli linguist is helping the Barngarla people reclaim their language, The Monthly.
Bikol Central edit
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gága
Etymology 2 edit
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gâgâ
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French edit
Etymology edit
Reduplication of the base of gâteux (“senile”)
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gaga (plural gagas)
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- “gaga”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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gaga (plural gagai)
- any ant with large mandibles, such as a soldier ant or driver ant
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gaga
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- (2017) Giacon J Gamilaraay-Yuwaalaraay Dictionary Supplement
German edit
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gaga (strong nominative masculine singular gagaer, not comparable)
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gaga
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gaga
Indonesian edit
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Borrowed from Javanese ꦒꦒ (gaga, “dry field”), from Old Javanese gagā (“non-irrigated rice-field”)
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gaga (plural gaga-gaga, first-person possessive gagaku, second-person possessive gagamu, third-person possessive gaganya)
- (agriculture) dry field
- Synonym: huma
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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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gaga (plural gaga-gaga, first-person possessive gagaku, second-person possessive gagamu, third-person possessive gaganya)
- (zoology) blubberlip snapper, Maori snapper, blue-spotted seaperch, Maori bream, Maori seaperch, multi-coloured snapper, scribbled snapper, speckled snapper, yellowfin snapper (Lutjanus rivulatus).
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- “gaga” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
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gaga
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gaga
- Romanization of ꦒꦒ
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gaga
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- Rhymes: -aɡɐ
- Hyphenation: ga‧ga
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gaga f (plural gagas)
- female equivalent of gago
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gaga
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gaga m or f or n (indeclinable)
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | gaga | gaga | gaga | gaga | ||
definite | — | — | — | — | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | gaga | gaga | gaga | gaga | ||
definite | — | — | — | — |
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gaga (3rd person possessive [please provide], plural [please provide])
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gaga f (plural gagas)
- female equivalent of gago
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gaga f
Tagalog edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Spanish gaga, feminine form of gago.
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gaga (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜄ) (vulgar, offensive)
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gaga (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜄ) (vulgar, offensive)
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Compare Malay gagah (“compulsive force; dominant; masterful; strong”).
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gagá (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜄ)
- usurpation; unlawful seizure (of power, rights, property, etc.)
- Synonym: pangangagaw
- rape (use of force to submit to a sexual act)
- gag (something thrust into the mouth to restrain speech)
- Synonym: busal
- (obsolete) ban; prohibition
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gagâ (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜄ) (obsolete)
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gagâ (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜄ) (obsolete)
- name of the Baybayin letter ᜄ, corresponding to "ga"
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gagà (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜄ) (botany, obsolete)
- a type of nettle
Further reading edit
- “gaga”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de; Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves[1] (in Spanish & Tagalog), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero[2], La Noble Villa de Pila
- page 327: “G) Gaga (pc) letra del abeçedario tagalog .|. gaga yaon .|. ᜄ . otra . G . tienen eſtos que llamamos gangoſa, eſcriueſe . g̃ . | ᜅ.”
- page 371: “Inuencion) Gaga (pp) o traça”
- page 582: “Traça) Gaga (pp) o inuentiba”
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From Ottoman Turkish غاغا.
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gaga (definite accusative gagayı, plural gagalar)
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Inflection | ||
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Nominative | gaga | |
Definite accusative | gagayı | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | gaga | gagalar |
Definite accusative | gagayı | gagaları |
Dative | gagaya | gagalara |
Locative | gagada | gagalarda |
Ablative | gagadan | gagalardan |
Genitive | gaganın | gagaların |
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- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “غاغا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1334
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gágà
- (rare) eyeglasses, goggles, sunshade
- Synonym: ìgò