gaga

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːɡɑː/

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From French gaga.

gaga (comparative more gaga, superlative most gaga)

1. (informal) Mentally senile.

   The elderly patients in the hospital were going gaga.

2. (informal) Crazy.

   You might go gaga if you stare at this screen too long.

   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, Viking, page ??:

     Should he lose it once and for all, he and Kathleen would need lots of money. Also, he had said to me, you could be gaga in a tenured chair at Princeton, and would anybody notice?

3. (informal) Infatuated.

   The girls were going gaga over the handsome new boy who joined the class.

• As demonstrated in the example sentences above, is often preceded by the verb go.

• go gaga over

• → Translingual: Gaga

gaga (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of ga-ga (“game resembling dodgeball”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.ɡə/
• Hyphenation: ga‧ga

Borrowed from Old Javanese gagā (“dry field”).

gaga (Balinese script ᬕᬕ)

1. field

Borrowed from Old Javanese gāgā, gāgak, gagak (“crow”), from Old Javanese *gakgak (“caw, as a crow; raucous talking of people”). Doublet of gagak.

gaga (Balinese script ᬕᬵᬕᬵ)

1. crow

• “gaga” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia], Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɡa/

gaga

1. head

• Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad (2019). Barngarlidhi Manoo (Speaking Barngarla Together) (Barngarla Alphabet & Picture Book). p.50-56.
  Part 1 Part 2
• Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad and Clamor Wilhelm Schürmann (2018). Online Barngarla Dictionary.
• Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad (2016). Barngarla Aboriginal Language Dictionary App.
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.regenr8.dictionary.barngarla
  https://apps.apple.com/au/app/barngarla/id1424856161
• Goldsworthy, Anna (2014), Voices of the land: In Port Augusta, an Israeli linguist is helping the Barngarla people reclaim their language, The Monthly.

Borrowed from Spanish gaga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɡa/ [ˈɡa.ɡa]
• Hyphenation: ga‧ga

gága

1. (vulgar, offensive) feminine of gago

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaʔɡaʔ/ [ˈɡaʔ.ɡaʔ]
• Hyphenation: ga‧ga

gâgâ

1. (Naga) act of boiling

   Synonym: laga

Reduplication of the base of gâteux (“senile”)

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.ɡa/

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gaga (plural gagas)

1. (informal) gaga (senile)

   Synonyms: fou, foufou, gâteux, neuneu, zinzin

2. (informal) gaga (crazy)

   Synonyms: fou, foufou, neuneu, zinzin

3. (informal) gaga (infatuated)

From Occitan gagas, from Latin gagates

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.ɡa/
• (Saint-Étienne) IPA^(key): [ɡaɡɑ], IPA^(key): [ɡaɡɒ]^[1]

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gaga (plural gagas)

1. (relational, Saint-Étienne dialect, informal) Stéphanois, of Saint-Étienne.

   Synonym: stéphanois

• parler gaga

• gagasse

gaga m or f (plural gagas)

1. (Saint-Étienne dialect, informal) Stéphanois, person living in Saint-Étienne.

   Synonym: Stéphanois

2. (linguistics, by ellipsis) the parler gaga, a French variety spoken in the French city of Saint-Étienne, the North of the Forez and around.

   Synonym: parler gaga

• gône

• “gaga”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɡa/

gaga (plural gagai)

1. any ant with large mandibles, such as a soldier ant or driver ant

• tsatsu
• tsatsutsuru
• gbense

• IPA^(key): /ɡaɡa/

gaga

1. wine

• (2017) Giacon J Gamilaraay-Yuwaalaraay Dictionary Supplement

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

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gaga (strong nominative masculine singular gagaer, not comparable)

1. (predicative, colloquial)

• “gaga” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “gaga” in Duden online
• “gaga” in Duden online

• IPA^(key): /ɡaɡa/
• Hyphenation: ga‧ga

gaga

1. happy

• pengaga

• IPA^(key): /ɡaɡaʔ/
• Hyphenation: ga‧ga

gaga

1. make, do

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -ɡa, -a
• Hyphenation: ga‧ga

Borrowed from Javanese ꦒꦒ (gaga, “dry field”), from Old Javanese gagā (“non-irrigated rice-field”), ultimately probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *tkɔɔʔ ~ *tkɔɔh (“island”) (compare to Khmer កោះ (kɑh), Thai เกาะ (gɔ̀), Lao ເກາະ (kǫ), Vietnamese gò).

gaga (plural gaga-gaga)

1. (agriculture) dry field

   Synonym: huma

• gogo

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gaga (plural gaga-gaga)

1. (zoology) blubberlip snapper, Maori snapper, blue-spotted seaperch, Maori bream, Maori seaperch, multi-coloured snapper, scribbled snapper, speckled snapper, yellowfin snapper (Lutjanus rivulatus)

• “gaga” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

gaga

1. a lot

gaga

1. Rōmaji transcription of がが

gaga

1. romanization of ꦒꦒ

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɡa/ [ˈɡaː.ɡʌ]
• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Syllabification: ga‧ga

gága

1. act of chewing, munching, masticating

• Morice Vanoverbergh (1933) “gága”, in A Dictionary of Lepanto Igorot or Kankanay. As it is spoken at Bauco (Linguistische Anthropos-Bibliothek; XII)‎^[1], Mödling bei Wien, St. Gabriel, Österreich: Verlag der Internationalen Zeitschrift „Anthropos“, →OCLC, page 155
• Allen, Larry (2021) “gága”, in Kankanaey – English Dictionary, Summer Institute of Linguistics

gaga

1. very

• Rhymes: -aɡɐ
• Hyphenation: ga‧ga

gaga f (plural gagas)

1. female equivalent of gago

gaga

1. feminine singular of gago

Borrowed from French gaga.

gaga m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. (informal) gaga (senile)

gaga (3rd person possessive [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. brother

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɡa/ [ˈɡa.ɣ̞a]
• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Syllabification: ga‧ga

gaga f (plural gagas)

1. female equivalent of gago

gaga f

1. feminine singular of gago

Borrowed from Spanish gaga, feminine form of gago.

• g*ga — bowdlerization

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɡa/ [ˈɡaː.ɣɐ]
• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Syllabification: ga‧ga

gaga (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜄ) (vulgar, derogatory)

1. feminine of gago

• kagagahan

gaga (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜄ) (vulgar, derogatory)

1. feminine of gago

From Sanskrit [Term?]. Compare Malay gagah (“compulsive force; dominant; masterful; strong”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈɡa/ [ɡɐˈɣa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ga‧ga

gagá (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜄ)

1. usurpation; unlawful seizure (of power, rights, property, etc.)

   Synonym: pangangagaw

2. rape (use of force to submit to a sexual act)

   Synonyms: gahasa, paggahasa

3. gag (something thrust into the mouth to restrain speech)

   Synonym: busal

4. (obsolete) ban; prohibition

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈɡaʔ/ [ɡɐˈɣaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: ga‧ga

gagâ (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜄ) (obsolete)

1. restlessness; mischief

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈɡaʔ/ [ɡɐˈɣaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: ga‧ga

gagâ (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜄ) (obsolete)

1. name of the Baybayin letter ᜄ, corresponding to "ga"

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɡaʔ/ [ˈɡaː.ɣɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -aɡaʔ
• Syllabification: ga‧ga

gagà (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜄ) (botany, obsolete)

1. a type of nettle

• “gaga”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[2] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[3], La Noble Villa de Pila
  • page 327: “G) Gaga (pc) letra del abeçedario tagalog .|. gaga yaon .|. ᜄ . otra . G . tienen eſtos que llamamos gangoſa, eſcriueſe . g̃ . | ᜅ.”
  • page 371: “Inuencion) Gaga (pp) o traça”
  • page 582: “Traça) Gaga (pp) o inuentiba”

• agag, ag-ag

From Ottoman Turkish غاغا.

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gaga (definite accusative gagayı, plural gagalar)

1. bill, beak

• gagalamak

• tumşuk

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “غاغا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1334

• IPA^(key): /ɡá.ɡà/

gágà

1. (rare) eyeglasses, goggles, sunshade

   Synonym: ìgò