# agra
## English
### Alternative forms

* a ghrá, agrah

### Etymology

From Irish a (vocative particle) + lenited form of grá (“love”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /əˈɡɹɑː/

### Noun

agra (uncountable)
* (Ireland) Dear, darling (as a term of endearment). [from 18th c.]
** 1847, Anthony Trollope, The Macdermots of Ballycloran:Kathleen, agra, […] bring me a glass of sperrits, will you?
** 2013, Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Faber & Faber, published 2014, page 21:But their mother sent our one notes. Give that to your mam a ghrá.

### Anagrams

* raag, agar, Raga, raga, Agar, Gara

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈa.ɣɾə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈa.ɣɾa]

### Adjective

agra
* feminine singular of agre

## Fingallian
### Etymology

From Irish a (vocative particle) + lenited form of grá (“love”).

### Noun

agra (uncountable)
* dear
** 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):
    Agra,Dear.

## Galician
### Etymology

13th century. From Latin ager, agrum, from Proto-Italic *agros, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaɣɾa̝/

### Noun

agra f (plural agras)
* large apportion of farmland, usually comprising a number of different properties and fields
** 1300, J. I. Fernández de Viana y Vieites, editor, Colección diplomática del monasterio de Santa María de Pantón, Lugo: Deputación, page 42:vendo dous leyros que iazen en a agra de Cas dos FerreyrosI sell two fields that are in the agra of Cas dos Ferreiros

#### Derived terms

* Agra
* Agras
* Agrela
* Agrelo
* Agriña

#### Related terms

* agro

### References

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

## Irish
### Etymology

From Middle Irish acra, from Old Irish acrae (“act of suing, prosecuting, bringing an action, urging a claim; action, suit, process”), verbal noun of ad·gair (“sues, prosecutes, impleads, accuses”).

### Noun

agra m (genitive singular agra, nominative plural agraí)
* (law) suit
* Alternative form of agairt (“plea; vengeance, retribution”)

#### Declension

bare forms
singular
plural
nominative
agra
agraí
vocative
a agra
a agraí
genitive
agra
agraí
dative
agra
agraí
forms with the definite article
singular
plural
nominative
an t-agra
na hagraí
genitive
an agra
na n-agraí
dative
leis an agra don agra
leis na hagraí :

#### Derived terms

* agra atharthachta m (“paternity suit”)
* agra dlí m (“lawsuit”)
* agra leabhail m (“libel suit”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “agra”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “acra(e)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* “suit”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “agra”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.ɡra/
* Rhymes: -aɡra
* Hyphenation: à‧gra

### Adjective

agra f
* feminine singular of agro

### Anagrams

* Agar, gara, raga

## Ladino
### Adjective

agra (masculine agro, masculine plural agros, feminine plural agras)
* sour

## Latvian
### Adjective

agra
* inflection of agrs:
** genitive masculine singular
** nominative feminine singular

## Old Javanese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit अग्र (agra, “tip, point”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.ɡra/
* Rhymes: -ɡra
* Hyphenation: a‧gra

### Noun

agra
* top, summit, point
* prominent, first, chief, best

#### Derived terms

* kāgra
* makāgra
* maṅagra
* pinakāgra
* agrabhāwanā
* agracūḍāmaṇi
* agrakeśara
* agramaṅgala
* agramaṇḍala
* agramukha
* agranagara
* agranāsikā
* agraparwata
* agrapaṅkti
* agraprāṇa
* agrasenāpati
* agratara
* agraśekhara
* agraśeṣa
* daityāgra
* krūrāgra
* kuśāgra
* kuṭāgra
* mahāpaṇḍitāgra
* nakhāgra
* nāsikāgra
* parwatāgra
* purohitāgra
* sañjatāgra
* sutāgra
* tomarāgra
* tīkṣṇāgra
* uttamāgra
* wiprāgra
* śilāgra
* śūlāgra

#### Related terms

* arga

#### Descendants

* Javanese: ꦲꦒꦿ (agra)

### Further reading

* "agra" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈa.ɡɾɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈa.ɡɾɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈa.ɡɾa/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈa.ɡɾɐ/ [ˈa.ɣɾɐ]
* Hyphenation: a‧gra

### Adjective

agra
* feminine singular of agro

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaɡɾa/ [ˈa.ɣ̞ɾa]
* Rhymes: -aɡɾa
* Syllabification: a‧gra

### Adjective

agra
* feminine singular of agro

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch hagel.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaɡɾa/, [ˈa̠ɡɾa̠], [ˈɑ̟ɡɾɑ̟]

### Noun

agra
* bullet
    Synonym: kugru
* shot (metal balls used as ammunition)

## Venetan
### Adjective

agra f
* feminine singular of agro