zaga
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Latvian
[edit]Verb
[edit]zaga
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish zaga,[1][2] from Andalusian Arabic صَقَا (ṣaqā), from Arabic صَقَا (ṣaqā, “rear”).
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Rhymes: -aɡɐ
- Hyphenation: za‧ga
Noun
[edit]zaga f (plural zagas)
- (military, archaic) rear (the part of an army or fleet which comes last)
- Synonym: retaguarda
- (Brazil, sports) defence (portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “zaga”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- ^ “zaga”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Rohingya
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- 𐴎𐴝𐴒𐴝 (zaga) — Hanifi Rohingya script
Noun
[edit]zaga (Hanifi spelling 𐴎𐴝𐴒𐴝)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic صَقَا (ṣaqā), from Arabic صَقَا (ṣaqā, “rear”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθaɡa/ [ˈθa.ɣ̞a]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈsaɡa/ [ˈsa.ɣ̞a]
- Rhymes: -aɡa
- Syllabification: za‧ga
Noun
[edit]zaga f (plural zagas)
Derived terms
[edit]- a la zaga, a zaga, en zaga (“in the rear; behind”)
- ir a la zaga (“to lag behind; to trail”)
- zaguero
Further reading
[edit]- “zaga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- Latvian non-lemma forms
- Latvian verb forms
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Spanish
- Portuguese terms derived from Spanish
- Portuguese terms derived from Andalusian Arabic
- Portuguese terms derived from Arabic
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/aɡɐ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/aɡɐ/2 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- pt:Military
- Portuguese terms with archaic senses
- Brazilian Portuguese
- pt:Sports
- Rohingya lemmas
- Rohingya nouns
- Spanish terms borrowed from Andalusian Arabic
- Spanish terms derived from Andalusian Arabic
- Spanish terms derived from Arabic
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɡa
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɡa/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- es:Sports