agra

• a ghrá, agrah

From Irish a (vocative particle) + lenited form of grá (“love”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈɡɹɑː/

agra (uncountable)

1. (Ireland) Dear, darling (as a term of endearment). [from 18th c.]
   • 1847, Anthony Trollope, The Macdermots of Ballycloran:

     Kathleen, agra, […] bring me a glass of sperrits, will you?

   • 2013, Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Faber & Faber 2014, p. 21:

     But their mother sent our one notes. Give that to your mam a ghrá.

• Agar, Raga, agar, raag, raga

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡɾa/

agra

1. feminine singular of agre

13th century. From Latin ager, agrum, from Proto-Italic *agros, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɣɾa̝/

agra m (plural agras)

1. large apportion of farmland, usually comprising a number of different properties and fields
   • 1300, J. I. Fernández de Viana y Vieites (ed.), Colección diplomática del monasterio de Santa María de Pantón. Lugo: Deputación, page 42:

     vendo dous leyros que iazen en a agra de Cas dos Ferreyros

     I sell two fields that are in the agra of Cas dos Ferreiros

• Agra
• Agras
• Agrela
• Agrelo
• Agriña

• agro

• “agra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “agra” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “agra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “agra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “agra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Middle Irish acra, from Old Irish acrae (“act of suing, prosecuting, bringing an action, urging a claim; action, suit, process”), verbal noun of ad·gair (“sues, prosecutes, impleads, accuses”).

agra m (genitive singular agra, nominative plural agraí)

1. (jurisprudence) suit
2. Alternative form of agairt (“plea; vengeance, retribution”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “agra”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “acra(e)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “suit” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• Entries containing “agra” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡra/
• Rhymes: -aɡra
• Hyphenation: à‧gra

agra f

1. feminine singular of agro

• Agar, gara, raga

agra (Latin spelling, masculine agro, masculine plural agros, feminine plural agras)

1. sour

agra

1. genitive singular masculine form of agrs
2. nominative singular feminine form of agrs

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɡɾa/ [ˈa.ɣ̞ɾa]
• Rhymes: -aɡɾa
• Syllabification: a‧gra

agra

1. feminine singular of agro

Borrowed from Dutch hagel.

agra

1. bullet

   Synonym: kugru

2. shot (metal balls used as ammunition)

agra f

1. feminine singular of agro