chaga

Borrowed from Russian ча́га (čága), Komi-Zyrian тшак (čak, “mushroom, growth”).

chaga (uncountable)

1. A parasitic fungus of trees, usually birch, found on the circumboreal region of the Northern hemisphere, Inonotus obliquus.
2. The irregular conk of this fungus, used in East European folk medicine to treat a number of conditions.

• (Inonotus obliquus): chaga mushroom

• Inonotus obliquus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Inonotus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Inonotus obliquus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• gacha

13th century. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese chaga (“sore, wound”), from Latin plāga (“injury”), from plangō, from Proto-Indo-European *plak-. Cognate with Portuguese chaga and Spanish llaga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃaɣa̝/

chaga f (plural chagas)

1. sore (injured, infected, inflamed, or diseased patch of skin)

   Synonym: úlcera

2. open wound
   • 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 151:

     talen aa huña de fora ataa a danadura do crauo que lixo nen podreen nenhũa non posa ficar na chaga por nenhũa gisa

     they shall cut the hoof until the nail injury, so that no dirt or rottenness remain in the wound under no circumstance

   Synonym: ferida

• praga
• chagar

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

chaga

1. land

From Old Portuguese chaga (“sore”), from Latin plāga (“injury”), from plangō (“strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *plak-. Compare Galician chaga, Spanish llaga, French plaie, Italian piaga, Romanian plagă. Doublet of the borrowing praga.

• (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃa.ɣɐ]
• Hyphenation: cha‧ga

chaga f (plural chagas)

1. sore (injured, infected, inflamed, or diseased patch of skin)

   Synonyms: ferida, úlcera

• praga
• chagado, chagar, chaguento