fuga

From Italian fuga. Doublet of fugue.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfjuːɡə/

fuga (plural fugas)

1. (music, dated) A fugue.

• “fuga”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From Latin fuga, probably a borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfuɡa/ [ˈfu.ɣ̞a]
• Rhymes: -uɡa
• Syllabification: fu‧ga

fuga f (plural fugues)

1. flight (act of fleeing)

   Synonym: fuxida

2. (music) fugue

• fuxir

From Latin fuga.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈfu.ɣə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈfu.ɣa]

fuga f (plural fugues)

1. flight, escape

   Synonym: fugida

2. (music) fugue

• fugir

• “fuga”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “fuga”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “fuga” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “fuga” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From German Fuge.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfuɡa]
• Hyphenation: fu‧ga

fuga f

1. fugue

• “fuga”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “fuga”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “fuga”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

From French fugue or Italian fuga, both from Latin fuga (“flight”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfuˀɡa/

fuga c (singular definite fugaen, plural indefinite fugaer)

1. fugue

• “fuga” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “fuga” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Borrowed from French fugue or borrowed from Italian fuga, both derived from Latin fuga (“flight, escape”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfy.ɣɑ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: fu‧ga

fuga m or f (plural fuga's, diminutive fugaatje n)

2. (music) fugue (piece of music)

• “fuga” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

• IPA^(key): /ˈfuɡa/
• Rhymes: -uɡa
• Hyphenation: fu‧ga

fuga (accusative singular fugan, plural fugaj, accusative plural fugajn)

1. fugal

Borrowed from German Fuge.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈfuɡɒ]
• Hyphenation: fu‧ga
• Rhymes: -ɡɒ

fuga (plural fugák)

1. joint (the vertical and horizontal gap between elements in brick/stone walls)

   Synonyms: rés, hézag

2. grout, caulk, pointing (filling material)

   Synonyms: tömítés, tömítőanyag

   Coordinate terms: szilikon, habarcs, malter

• fugáz

• fúga

• fuga in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfu.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -uɡa
• Hyphenation: fù‧ga

Borrowed from Latin fuga. Compare the inherited doublet foga.

fuga f (plural fughe, diminutive fughétta, augmentative fugóna or fugóne)

1. flight, escape
2. leak, leakage
3. (music) fugue
4. (cycle racing) breakaway, break

• fugace
• fugare
• fugato
• fuggire
• fuggitivo

fuga

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

• fuga in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• fuga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• gufa

• fugēla, fugella (pre-Classical, post-classical)

From Proto-Italic *fugā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰugéh₂. Cognate to Ancient Greek φυγή (phugḗ).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfʊ.ɡa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfuː.ɡa]
• Hyphenation: fuga

fuga f (genitive fugae); first declension

1. flight, fleeing, escape

   Pestilentī dēsertā regiōne vēlōciōrī sē fugā prōripiunt. ― They rush away from the pestilential, deserted region in a swifter flight.

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.137:

     “Mātūrāte fugam, rēgīque haec dīcite vestrō: [...].”

     “Hasten [your] escape, and go tell your king these [words]: [...].”
     (Neptune dismisses the winds with a message for King Aeolus.)

2. avoidance
3. exile

First-declension noun.

• fugio, fugo
• refugium

• Eastern Romance
  • Aromanian: fugã
  • Romanian: fugă
• Friulian: foghe, fughe
• Italian: foga
  • → French: fougue
• Piedmontese: fuga

Borrowings

• → Catalan: fuga
• → French: fugue
  • → English: fugue
  • → Persian: فوگ (fug)
  • → Turkish: füg
• → Italian: fuga (see there for further descendants)
• → Occitan: fòga
• → Portuguese: fuga
• → Spanish: fuga
• → Welsh: ffo

• “fuga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fuga”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "fuga", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• fuga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • prodigal expenditure: sumptus effusi (vid. sect. IX. 2, note Cf. effusa fuga...) or profusi
    
  • to put the enemy to flight: in fugam dare, conicere hostem
    
  • (1) to put to flight, (2) to take to flight: fugam facere (Sall. Iug. 53)
    
  • to take to flight: fugae se mandare (B. G. 2. 24)
    
  • to take to flight: fugam capessere, capere
    
  • to take to flight: se dare in fugam, fugae
    
  • to take to flight: se conicere, se conferre in fugam
    
  • to seek safety in flight: fuga salutem petere
    
  • headlong flight: fuga effusa, praeceps (Liv. 30. 5)
    
  • to flee headlong: praecipitem se fugae mandare
    
  • soldiers routed and dispersed: ex (in) fuga dissipati or dispersi (B. G. 2. 24)
    
  • to bring the flying enemy to a stand: fugam hostium reprimere (B. G. 3. 14)
    
  • to save oneself by flight: se fuga recipere (B. G. 1. 11)
    
• fuga in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 246

• fuge

• IPA^(key): /²fʉːɡɑ/

fuga (present tense fugar, past tense fuga, past participle fuga, passive infinitive fugast, present participle fugande, imperative fuga/fug)

1. to join bricks, stones or tiles

• “fuga” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfu.ɡa/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uɡa
• Syllabification: fu‧ga

Borrowed from German Fuge.

fuga f

1. joint, interstice (gap, e.g. between bricks)
2. grout

   Niebieska fuga nie pasuje do brązowych kafli. ― Blue grout doesn't match brown tiles.

Learned borrowing from Latin fuga.

fuga f

1. (music) fugue

• fuga in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fuga in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Latin fuga, probably a borrowing.

fuga f (plural fugas)

1. escape, flight (act of fleeing)

   Synonyms: fugida, evasão

   Sua fuga da prisão foi bem planejada.

   His escape from prison was well planned.

2. leak (of water, gas, information etc.)

   Synonym: vazamento

3. evasion (of responsibility, tax etc.)

   Synonyms: evasiva, evasão

• fuga de capitais
• fuga de cérebros
• fuga de informação
• ponto de fuga

• fugir

From Italian fuga.

fuga f (plural fugas)

1. (music) fugue (piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices)

From Latin fugāre.

a fuga (third-person singular present fugă, past participle fugat, third-person subjunctive fuge) 1st conjugation

1. (dated, regional, Transylvania) to banish, expel, drive away, chase off

• alunga, fugări, goni, izgoni

• fugă
• fugaci
• fugi

From Proto-Oceanic *puŋa (“flower; bossom”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buŋa (“flower, blossom”), from Proto-Austronesian *buŋa (“flower, blossom”).

• IPA^(key): /fu.ŋa/

fuga

1. flower

Borrowed from Italian fuga (“musical form, fleeing”).

• IPA^(key): /fǔːɡa/
• Hyphenation: fu‧ga

fúga f (Cyrillic spelling фу́га)

1. (music) fugue
2. (psychiatry) fugue state

Borrowed from German Fuge (same meaning), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to join, attach”).

• IPA^(key): /fǔːɡa/
• Hyphenation: fu‧ga

fúga f (Cyrillic spelling фу́га)

1. (construction, singular only) the filling between bricks/tiles

Variant of vȕga, from Proto-Slavic *jьvьlga.

• IPA^(key): /fûɡa/
• Hyphenation: fu‧ga

fȕga f (Cyrillic spelling фу̏га)

1. (Montenegro) oriole

   Synonym: vuga

   • 2022, Миоград В. Јовановић, editor, Рјечник говора Паштровића‎^[3], →ISBN, page 366:

     Фу̏га пра̏вӣ гни̏јездо висо̏ко у кро̏шњу др̏вета

     Fȕga prȁvī gnȉjezdo visȍko u krȍšnju dȑveta

     The oriole builds its nest high up in the tree crown

• Franjo Iveković, Ivan Broz (1901) Rječnik hrvatskoga jezika. Svezak I. A–O‎^[4], Zagreb: Štamparija Karla Albrechta (Jos. Wittasek), page 295
• “fuga”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025 (musical form, psychological state)
• “fuga”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025 (construction)

• IPA^(key): /ˈfuɡa/ [ˈfu.ɣ̞a]
• Rhymes: -uɡa
• Syllabification: fu‧ga

Borrowed from Latin fuga.^[1]

fuga f (plural fugas)

1. escape, flight

   Synonym: huida

2. leak

   Synonym: escape

• → Tagalog: puga (“escape from prison”)

fuga

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

• “fuga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

fuga

1. to be annoyed, to be fed up

fuga

1. disgusting

From Proto-Bantu *-túga.

• Audio (Kenya):

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-fuga (infinitive kufuga)

1. to keep (livestock)

Conjugation of -fuga
Positive present -nafuga Subjunctive -fuge Negative -fugi Imperative singular fuga
Infinitives
Positive kufuga Negative kutofuga
Imperatives
Singular fuga Plural fugeni
Tensed forms
Habitual hufuga Positive past positive subject concord + -lifuga Negative past negative subject concord + -kufuga
Positive present (positive subject concord + -nafuga) Singular Plural 1st person ninafuga/nafuga tunafuga 2nd person unafuga mnafuga 3rd person m-wa(I/II) anafuga wanafuga other classes positive subject concord + -nafuga
Negative present (negative subject concord + -fugi) Singular Plural 1st person sifugi hatufugi 2nd person hufugi hamfugi 3rd person m-wa(I/II) hafugi hawafugi other classes negative subject concord + -fugi
Positive future positive subject concord + -tafuga Negative future negative subject concord + -tafuga
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -fuge) Singular Plural 1st person nifuge tufuge 2nd person ufuge mfuge 3rd person m-wa(I/II) afuge wafuge other classes positive subject concord + -fuge
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -sifuge Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngefuga Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singefuga Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngalifuga Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singalifuga
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -afuga) Singular Plural 1st person nafuga twafuga 2nd person wafuga mwafuga 3rd person m-wa(I/II) afuga wafuga m-mi(III/IV) wafuga yafuga ji-ma(V/VI) lafuga yafuga ki-vi(VII/VIII) chafuga vyafuga n(IX/X) yafuga zafuga u(XI) wafuga see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) kwafuga pa(XVI) pafuga mu(XVIII) mwafuga
Perfect positive subject concord + -mefuga "Already" positive subject concord + -meshafuga "Not yet" negative subject concord + -jafuga "If/When" positive subject concord + -kifuga "If not" positive subject concord + -sipofuga Consecutive kafuga / positive subject concord + -kafuga Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kafuge
Object concord (indicative positive) Singular Plural 1st person -nifuga -tufuga 2nd person -kufuga -wafuga/-kufugeni/-wafugeni 3rd person m-wa(I/II) -mfuga -wafuga m-mi(III/IV) -ufuga -ifuga ji-ma(V/VI) -lifuga -yafuga ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kifuga -vifuga n(IX/X) -ifuga -zifuga u(XI) -ufuga see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kufuga pa(XVI) -pafuga mu(XVIII) -mufuga Reflexive -jifuga
Relative forms General positive (positive subject concord + (object concord) + -fuga- + relative marker) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -fugaye -fugao m-mi(III/IV) -fugao -fugayo ji-ma(V/VI) -fugalo -fugayo ki-vi(VII/VIII) -fugacho -fugavyo n(IX/X) -fugayo -fugazo u(XI) -fugao see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -fugako pa(XVI) -fugapo mu(XVIII) -fugamo Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + (object concord) + -fuga) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -yefuga -ofuga m-mi(III/IV) -ofuga -yofuga ji-ma(V/VI) -lofuga -yofuga ki-vi(VII/VIII) -chofuga -vyofuga n(IX/X) -yofuga -zofuga u(XI) -ofuga see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kofuga pa(XVI) -pofuga mu(XVIII) -mofuga
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.

• Nominal derivations:
  • mfugaji (“herder, rancher”)
  • mfugo (“livestock”)

Borrowed from Italian fuga, from Latin fuga (“flight; escape”).

fuga c

1. (music) fugue

• fugaform
• fugasats
• fugato
• fugerad
• fugering

• fuga in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• fuga in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• fuga in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)