agua

From Latin aqua, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɡwa/, [ˈa.ɣ̞wa]

agua f (uncountable)

1. water

• acuariu
• acuáticu
• acuosu
• agüeru

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əˈɣu.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [aˈɣu.a]

agua

1. Pre-2016 spelling of agúa.

Borrowed from Spanish agua.

agua

1. water

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

From Spanish agua.

agua

1. water

• Chavacano Translation Dictionary

• IPA^(key): /aɣua/

agua

1. grain, seed or small fruit of some plants
2. maize grain
3. (anatomy) temple (part of the skull on the side of the forehead)

• Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.
• Quesada Pacheco, Miguel Ángel. 1991. El vocabulario mosco de 1612. En estudios de Lingüística Chibcha. Programa de investigación del departamento de lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica. Serie Anual Tomo X San José (Costa Rica). Universidad de Costa Rica.

From Old Galician-Portuguese agua, from Latin aqua.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɡwa/

agua f (countable and uncountable, plural aguas)

1. water
2. rain

   Synonym: lluvia

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN
• Apuntes socio-históricos y lingüísticos sobre a Fala do Val de Xalima

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡwa/, [ˈa.ɣwa]

agua f (uncountable)

1. (proscribed) Alternative form of auga

From Old Spanish agua, from Latin aqua, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂.

agua f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling אגּואה)

1. water

• auga, augua

From Latin aqua (“water”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡwa/

agua f

1. water
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 23 (facsimile):

     Como deꝯ fez uỹo dagua […]

     Just as God turned water into wine […]

• Fala: agua
• Galician: auga, agua
• Portuguese: água, auga (see there for further descendants)

From Latin aqua, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɡwa/

agua f (plural aguas)

1. water
   • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 5v. b.

     Vino ioſep aſos ermanos. e priſierõ le & deſpoiarõle el palio. e echarōle en el pozo. & este pozo era bazio e no yauia agua.

     Joseph came to this brothers; they imprisoned him and unclothed him and threw him into the well, and this well was empty and had no water.

   • Idem, f. 13v. b.

     Tornarõ ſe todas las aguas ẽ ſãgre.

     And all of the waters turned into blood.

• Ladino: agua / אגוה
• Spanish: agua (see there for further descendants)

agua

1. water

• Manuel Diaz-Campos, The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics (2011, →ISBN)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

agua

1. inflection of aguar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

agua f (plural aguas)

1. Obsolete spelling of água

agua

1. moon

• Vocabularios de la lengua xinca de Sinacantan (1868, D. Juan Gavarrete)

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɡwa/ [ˈa.ɣ̞wa]
• (Latin America)

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• Rhymes: -aɡwa
• Syllabification: a‧gua

Inherited from Old Spanish agua, from Latin aqua (compare Catalan aigua, French eau, Galician auga, Italian acqua, Occitan aiga, Portuguese água, Romanian apă, Sardinian abba), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂. See English ea.

• awa (eye dialect)

agua f (plural aguas)

1. water

   Quiere un vaso de agua fresca.

   He wants a glass of cold water.

2. body of water

   Synonym: cuerpo de agua

3. rain

   Synonyms: lluvia, aguacero

4. (archaic) river, stream

   Synonyms: río, arroyo

5. (slang, in the plural) urine

   Synonym: orina

6. (Guatemala) pop, soda (soft drink)

   Synonyms: soda, (Chile) bebida, (El Salvador, Spain) gaseosa, (Mexico) refresco

   Voy a comprar algo de agua.

   I'm gonna buy some pop.

   Deme agua Pepsi.

   Give me Pepsi (soda).

7. (Latin America) infusion

   Synonym: infusión

• Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.

  el agua, un agua

• They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.
• In Guatemala, since agua prototypically refers to a soft drink, the phrase agua pura is used to refer to water.

• Chavacano: agua
• Media Lengua: awa
• Palenquero: agua
• Papiamentu: awa
• → Hiligaynon: agwa
• → Tagalog: agwa

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

agua

1. inflection of aguar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “agua”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• Audio (Kenya)

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-agua (infinitive kuagua)

1. to divine, foretell, predict