agua

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

agua f (plural agües)

1. water

• acuariu
• acuáticu
• acuosu
• agüeru

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /əˈɡu.ə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /aˈɡu.a/

agua

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

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.

Borrowed from Spanish agua, 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-Italic *akʷā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂. See English ea.

agua

1. water

• Chavacano Translation Dictionary

From Old Portuguese agua, from Latin aqua.

agua

1. water

• 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 אגווה‎)

1. water

• auga
• augua

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɡwa/

agua f

1. water
   • 13th century, attributed to 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
  • Angolar: awa
  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: iagu
  • Kabuverdianu: águ
  • Korlai Creole Portuguese: ag
  • Kristang: agu
  • Papiamentu (?): awa
  • Principense: awa
  • Sãotomense: awa
    • Annobonese: aua

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.ɣwa]

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 (Latin spelling), אגוא‎ (Hebrew spelling)
• Spanish: agua

agua

1. water

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

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/, [ˈaɣwa]

• Audio (Latin America)

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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-Italic *akʷā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂. See English ea.

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
5. (slang, in the plural) urine

   Synonym: orina

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

   Voy a comprar algo de agua. ― I'm gonna buy some pop.

   Deme agua Pepsi. ― Give me Pepsi.

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

7. (Latin America) infusion

• The feminine noun agua is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed a sound in that it takes the definite article el (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:

el agua

• However, if an adjective, even one that begins with a stressed a sound such as alta or ancha, intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la.

• In Guatemala, since agua prototypically refers to a soft drink, the phrase agua pura is used to refer to water.

• Hiligaynon: agwa
• Papiamento: awa

See the etymology of the main entry.

agua

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of aguar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of aguar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of aguar.

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

-agua (infinitive kuagua)

1. to divine, foretell, predict