gaga

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːɡɑː/

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From French gaga.

gaga (comparative more gaga, superlative most gaga)

1. (informal) Mentally senile.

   The elderly patients in the hospital were going gaga.

2. (informal) Crazy.

   You might go gaga if you stare at this screen too long.

   • 1975, Bellow, Saul, 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?

3. (informal) Infatuated.

   The girls were going gaga over the handsome new boy who joined the class.

• As demonstrated in the example sentences above, gaga is often preceded by the verb go.

• go gaga over

gaga (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of ga-ga (“game resembling dodgeball”)

gaga

1. Romanization of ᬕᬕ
2. Romanization of ᬕᬵᬕᬵ

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɡa/

gaga

1. head

• 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.

Borrowed from Spanish gaga.

• Hyphenation: ga‧ga
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɡa/

gaga

1. (vulgar, offensive) feminine of gago

• Hyphenation: ga‧ga
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaʔɡaʔ/

gâgâ

1. (Naga) act of boiling

   Synonym: laga

Reduplication of the base of gâteux (“senile”)

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.ɡa/

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gaga (plural gagas)

1. (informal) gaga (senile)

   Synonyms: fou, foufou, gâteux, neuneu, zinzin

2. (informal) gaga (crazy)

   Synonyms: fou, foufou, neuneu, zinzin

3. (informal) gaga (infatuated)

• “gaga”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɡa/

gaga (plural gagai)

1. any ant with large mandibles, such as a soldier ant or driver ant

• tsatsu
• tsatsutsuru
• gbense

• IPA^(key): /ɡaɡa/

gaga

1. wine

• (2017) Giacon J Gamilaraay-Yuwaalaraay Dictionary Supplement

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡaɡa]
• Hyphenation: ga‧ga

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gaga (strong nominative masculine singular gagaer, not comparable)

1. (predicative, colloquial) gaga

• “gaga” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “gaga” in Duden online
• “gaga” in Duden online

• IPA^(key): /ɡaɡa/
• Hyphenation: ga‧ga

gaga

1. happy

• pengaga

• IPA^(key): /ɡaɡaʔ/
• Hyphenation: ga‧ga

gaga

1. make, do

gaga

1. Rōmaji transcription of がが

gaga

1. very

• Rhymes: -aɡɐ

gaga f (plural gagas)

1. female equivalent of gago

gaga

1. feminine singular of gago

From French gaga.

gaga m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. (informal) gaga (senile)

gaga (3rd person possessive [[{{{1}}}#Salar|{{{1}}}]], plural [[{{{2}}}#Salar|{{{2}}}]])

1. brother

gaga f (plural gagas)

1. female equivalent of gago

gaga f

1. feminine singular of gago

Borrowed from Spanish gaga, feminine form of gago.

• g*ga – bowdlerization

• Hyphenation: ga‧ga
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɡa/, [ˈɡa.ɣɐ]

gaga

1. (vulgar, offensive) feminine of gago

• kagagahan

gaga

1. (vulgar, offensive) feminine of gago

• Hyphenation: ga‧ga
• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈɡa/, [ɡɐˈɣa]

gagá

1. usurpation; unlawful seizure (of power, rights, property, etc.)

   Synonym: pangangagaw

2. rape (use of force to submit to a sexual act)

   Synonyms: gahasa, paggahasa

3. gag (something thrust into the mouth to restrain speech)

From Ottoman Turkish غاغا‎.

gaga (definite accusative gagayı, plural gagalar)

1. bill, beak

• gagalamak

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “غاغا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1334