# oga
## English
### Etymology

From Yoruba ọ̀gá (“chief, master”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈəʊ.ɡə/
* (General American) enPR: ōʹgə, IPA: /ˈoʊ.ɡə/
* Rhymes: -əʊɡə
* Homophone: ogre (non-rhotic)

### Noun

oga (plural ogas)
* (West Africa) A chief, employer, or superior.
** 2013, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, chapter 50, in Americanah:Nigeria is not a nation of sandwich-eating people and his last oga did not eat bread in the afternoon.

### Anagrams

* GAO, G.O.A., AGO, G. O. A., ago, AOG, OAG, Gao, goa, Goa, GOA

## Elfdalian
### Etymology

From Old Norse auga.

### Noun

oga n
* eye

## Estonian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *oka, possibly borrowed from Proto-Baltic. Cognates include Finnish oas, oka (dialectal), Votic õgaz, Ingrian oas, Livvi ovas, Ludian ogas and Veps ogah.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈoɡ̊ɑ/, [ˈoɡ̊ɑ]
* Rhymes: -oɡɑ
* Hyphenation: o‧ga

### Noun

oga (genitive oga, partitive oga)
* (botany) thorn, prickle
    Synonym: okas
* (zootomy) spine (a strong and sharp thorn-like covering, bone or similar formation)
* spike, barb
    Riided jäid okastraadi ogadesse kinni. ― Clothes got caught in the spikes of the barbed wire.

#### Synonyms

* (thorn, prickle): okas

#### Derived terms

* ohakas

#### Compounds

* ogaannoona
* ogahai
* ogajätke
* ogamelon
* ogaputk
* ogarai
* ogasiilik
* ogaujur
* ogaõun

#### Related terms

* okas

### References

* oga in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
* “oga”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

## Gun
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Nigeria):(file)

### Noun

ogá (plural ogá lẹ) (Nigeria)
* bow (weapon)

#### Related terms

* ogaba

## Hausa
### Etymology

From Yoruba ọ̀gá (“chief”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔò.ɡáː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [ʔò.ɡáː]

### Noun

ògā m (possessed form ògan)
* boss, someone in charge

## Latvian
### Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *wog-, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ṓˀgāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ógeh₂. Cognates include Lithuanian úoga, Old Church Slavonic агода (agoda), and possibly Tocharian B oko.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [uôɡa]
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### Noun

oga f (4th declension)
* berry (small fruits of various species)
    ogu sula ― berry juice
    ogu krūms ― berry bush
    ogu ķekars ― berry bunch
    iet ogās, iet lasīt ogas ― to go pick berries
    ogu laiks ― berry time (season)

#### Derived terms

* ērkšķoga

### References

* ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “oga”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎ (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

## Nigerian Pidgin
### Etymology

From Yoruba ọ̀gá.

### Noun

oga
* boss, master, senior
** 2020, Holy Bible Nigerian Pidgin English‎, Nigeria: Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc., Rut [Ruth] 2:13:Rut kon sey, “My oga, yu really dey good to mi, bikos yu don trit mi like yor savant, even doh I nor bi yor savant!”Ruth then said, “My boss, you have really been good to me because you have treated me like your servant, even though I am not your servant!”

## Old Dutch
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *augā.

### Noun

ōga n
* eye

#### Alternative forms

* ouga

#### Descendants

* Middle Dutch: ôge
** Dutch: oog
** Limburgish: oug

#### Further reading

* “ōga”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ōgan, from Proto-Germanic *ōganą (“to be afraid”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈoː.ɡɑ/, [ˈoː.ɣɑ]

### Noun

ōga m
* horror or terror

#### Declension

Weak:

## Old Saxon
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *augā.
Compare Old English ēage, Old Frisian āge, Old Dutch ōga, Old High German ouga, Old Norse auga, Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌲𐍉 (augō).

### Noun

ōga n
* eye
** 9th c. Heliand, verse 5494
    ...endi im undar is ōgun spīwun,......and they spat at him under his eyes,...

#### Descendants

* Middle Low German: ôge
** Low German: Oge, Oog
*** German Low German: Oog
    Hamburgisch: Oog
    Westphalian:
       (Can we clean up this sense?) Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Äuge
       Lippisch: Auge, Äoge
       Ravensbergisch: äuge (scientific), Auge
       Sauerländisch: Äoge, Auge, Eyege, Ouge, Oue
       Westmünsterländisch: Ooge, Oog
** Plautdietsch: Uag

#### References

Köbler, Gerhard, Altsächsisches Wörterbuch (5th edition 2014)

## Rwanda-Rundi
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jóga.

### Verb

-óga (infinitive (Rwanda) kôga or (Rundi) kwôga, perfective -óze)
* bathe, immerse

#### Derived terms

* -oza (“wash, clean”)

## Swahili
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jóga.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

-oga (infinitive kuoga)
* to wash oneself, to bathe

#### Usage notes

In some dialects, this verb may conjugate like a monosyllabic verb; see Appendix:Swahili verbs for those conjugated forms.

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -oga :
| Positive present | -naoga |
| Subjunctive | -oge |
| Negative | -ogi |
| Imperative singular | oga |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kuoga |
| Negative | kutooga |
Imperatives :
| Singular | oga |
| Plural | ogeni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | huoga |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -lioga |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kuoga |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -taoga |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -taoga |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sioge |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngeoga |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singeoga |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalioga |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalioga |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -meoga |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshaoga |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -jaoga |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kioga |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipooga |
| Consecutive | kaoga / positive subject concord + -kaoga |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kaoge |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

#### Derived terms

* Verbal derivations:
** Causative: -ogesha (“to bathe”)