# fraga
## Galician
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɾa.ɣɐ/

### Noun

fraga f (plural fragas)
* an isolated forest with deciduous trees, herbs, mosses, lichens and a diverse fauna
** 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.
* rock, outcrop

#### Derived terms

* Fraga
* Fraga Alta
* Fraga Cha
* Fraga do Rei
* Fraga Redonda
* Fragarrara
* Fragas
* Fraguela

#### Related terms

* Fragoso
* fragueiro

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “fraga”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “fraga”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “fraga”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “fraga”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “fraga”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ “”, Portal das Palabras.

## Italian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfra.ɡa/
* Rhymes: -aɡa
* Hyphenation: frà‧ga

### Noun

fraga f (plural fraghe)
* (obsolete or regional) Synonym of fragola (“strawberry”)

### Further reading

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

## Latin
### Noun

frāga
* nominative/accusative/vocative plural of frāgum

### References

* “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

## Occitan
### Alternative forms

* ahraga (Gascony)
* fresa (Limousin)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfɾa.ɣɔ/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: fra‧ga

### Noun

fraga f (plural fragas)
* strawberry
    Synonym: majofa f

## Old High German
### Etymology

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

### Noun

frāga f
* question
    Synonym: frāgan

#### Descendants

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

## Old Saxon
### Etymology

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

### Noun

frāga f
* question

#### Descendants

* German Low German: Fraag, Froge

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* frágua

### Etymology

From Old Galician-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.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈfɾa.ɡɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈfɾa.ɡɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈfɾa.ɡa/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈfɾa.ɡɐ/ [ˈfɾa.ɣɐ]
* Rhymes: -aɡɐ
* Hyphenation: fra‧ga

### Noun

fraga f (plural fragas)
* cliff

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈfraɡa]

### Noun

fraga f
* definite nominative/accusative singular of fragă

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

From English flag or Dutch vlag.

### Noun

fraga
* flag