fraga

13th century, from Old Galician and Old Portuguese, from an Iberian Vulgar Latin fraga, plural of fragum, from fragōsus (“rough”), from fragor, from frangō (“break, shatter”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾa.ɣɐ/

fraga f (plural fragas)

Fragas do Eume natural park

1. an isolated forest with deciduous trees, herbs, mosses, lichens and a diverse fauna[1]
   • 1948, Revista de Guimarães, volumes 58–60, page 303:

     Iba sempre a cabalo, pois tiña que andar máis de catro légoas por fragas, devesas e caborcos.

     He always rode a horse, as he had to travel over four leagues through isolated forests, sparse woods and gullies.

2. rock, outcrop

• Fragoso
• fragueiro

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

Borrowed from Late Latin frāga, noun use of the plural form of Classical Latin frāgum (“strawberry”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfra.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Hyphenation: frà‧ga

fraga f (plural fraghe)

1. (obsolete or regional) Synonym of fragola (“strawberry”)

• fraga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

frāga

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of frāgum

• “fraga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fraga”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fraga in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “fraga”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

• ahraga (Gascon)
• fresa (Limousin)

From Latin frāga, from frāgum. Compare Catalan fraula, Italian fragola, among others.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾa.ɣɔ/

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• Hyphenation: fra‧ga

fraga f (plural fragas)

1. strawberry

   Synonym: majofa f

From Proto-West Germanic *frāgu, from Proto-Germanic *frēgō. Related to Old English fræġn.

frāga f

1. question

   Synonym: frāgan

• Middle High German: vrāge
  • German: Frage
    • → Yiddish: פֿראַגע‎ (frage)
  • Hunsrik: Froh
  • Luxembourgish: Fro
  • Vilamovian: frög

Related to Old English fræġn and the verb frignan (“to ask”), from Proto-West Germanic *fregnan.

frāga f

1. question

• German Low German: Fraag, Froge

• frágua

From Old Portuguese fraga (compare Galician fraga), from Iberian Vulgar Latin fraga, plural of fragum (compare also Catalan and Occitan frau), from fragōsus (“rough”), from fragor, from frangō (“break, shatter”); cf. also Latin fragilis.

• Rhymes: -aɡɐ
• Hyphenation: fra‧ga

fraga f (plural fragas)

1. cliff

• IPA^(key): [ˈfraɡa]

fraga f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of fragă

From English flag or Dutch vlag.

fraga

1. flag