Translingual

Symbol

Ga

1. (chemistry) Symbol for gallium.
2. (metrology) Symbol for gigannum, a unit of time equal to 10⁹ years.
3. (metrology) Symbol for gigayears ago, a unit of time equal to 10⁹ years in the past

English

Proper noun

Ga

1. A Niger-Congo language spoken in Ghana and Togo.

External links

• Ethnologue entry for Ga, gaa

Anagrams

• ag, Ag, AG, Ag., A/G

Dutch

Verb

ga

1. first-person singular present indicative of gaan
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of gaan
3. imperative of gaan

Ewe

Noun

ga

1. metal
2. money

Fijian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ŋaː/

Conjunction

ga

1. but

Synonyms

• ia

Irish

Etymology

Apparently a conflation of Old Irish gath, goth ‎(“spear”) with the synonymous gae ‎(“spear”), from Proto-Celtic *gaisos ‎(“spear”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰays- ‎(“spear”). Cognate with Welsh gwayw and Latin gaesum (a Gaulish loanword) as well as Old English gār.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa/

Noun

ga m ‎(genitive singular ga, nominative plural gathanna)

1. spear (long stick with a sharp tip)
2. ray (beam of light or radiation)
3. (geometry) radius (line segment between any point on the circumference of a circle and its center; length of this segment)

Declension

Alternative (archaic or dialectal) forms:

Alternative genitive singular: gaoi

Derived terms

Mutation

References

• “gae” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “gath” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “3 goth” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “ga” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• "ga" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Japanese

Romanization

ga

1. rōmaji reading of が
2. rōmaji reading of ガ

Lojban

Cmavo

ga

1. (conjunction, logical connective) either/or

Usage notes

• This is a coordinating conjunction: ga ... gi ... means either ... or ... or both.
• This is a logical connective corresponding to prefix OR (with gi acting as a separator between its two following terms).
• This is a so-called "forethought connective". Its corresponding "afterthought connective" is ja or .ija.

See also

• ganai
• ge
• genai
• gi
• go
• gonai
• gu

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡa]

Adverb

ga

1. when

Synonyms

• gdy

Mandarin

Romanization

ga

1. Nonstandard spelling of gā.
2. Nonstandard spelling of gá.
3. Nonstandard spelling of gǎ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of gà.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Manx

Conjunction

ga

1. though, although
   • V'eh yn fer toshee dy feer, ga nagh row yn ennym er. He was leader in deed though not in name.
2. albeit

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• gav

Verb

ga

1. simple past of gi

Scottish Gaelic

Pronoun

ga

1. him, it (direct object)

   Bha sinn ga thuigsinn.‎ ― We understood it.

2. her, it (direct object)

   Cha bhi mi ga tachairt.‎ ― I won't be meeting her.

Usage notes

• As him/it lenites the following word.
• As her/it adds the prefix h- to the following word if it begins with a vowel.

  An robh thu ga h-ithe?‎ ― Did you eat it?

Related terms

Serbo-Croatian

Pronoun

ga ‎(Cyrillic spelling га)

1. of him (clitic genitive singular of ȏn ‎(“he”))
2. him (clitic accusative singular of ȏn ‎(“he”))
3. of it (clitic genitive singular of òno ‎(“it”))
4. it (clitic accusative singular of òno ‎(“it”))

Declension

Venetian

Verb

ga

1. third-person singular present indicative of gaver

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ɣaː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ɣaː˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ɣaː˧˥]

Etymology 1

Borrowing from French gare

Noun

ga

1. train station

Etymology 2

Borrowing from French gaz

Noun

ga

1. (for a gas stove) gas
2. (for a lighter) lighter fluid

Welsh

Verb

ga

1. Soft mutation of ca.

Zazaki

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓw.

Noun

ga ‎(gu) ?

1. bull
2. (astronomy, astrology) Taurus

Zhuang

Etymology

Compare Lao ຂາ ‎(khā), Thai ขา ‎(kăa).

Noun

ga

1. leg