different between gaga vs gata

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???????/

Etymology 1

From French gaga

Adjective

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.

   • 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.

Usage notes

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

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

gaga (uncountable)

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

Balinese

Romanization

gaga

1. Romanization of ??
2. Romanization of ????

Barngarla

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?a/

Noun

gaga

1. head

References

• 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

French

Etymology

Reduplication of the base of gâteux (“senile”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.?a/

Adjective

gaga (plural gagas)

1. (informal) gaga (senile)
2. (informal) gaga (crazy)
3. (informal) gaga (infatuated)

Synonyms

senile

• fou
• foufou
• gâteux
• neuneu
• zinzin

crazy

• fou
• foufou
• neuneu
• zinzin

Further reading

• “gaga” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Ga

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?a/

Noun

gaga (plural gagai)

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

See also

• tsatsu
• tsatsutsuru
• gbense

Gamilaraay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?a/

Noun

gaga

1. wine

References

• (2017) Giacon J Gamilaraay-Yuwaalaraay Dictionary Supplement

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??a?a]
• Hyphenation: ga?ga

Adjective

gaga (not comparable)

1. (predicative, colloquial) gaga

Further reading

• “gaga” in Duden online

Japanese

Romanization

gaga

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Lindu

Adverb

gaga

1. very

Tagalog

Etymology

• From gago

Adjective

gaga

1. (vulgar) (feminine) an idiot, asshole

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ?????.

Noun

gaga (definite accusative gagay?, plural gagalar)

1. bill, beak

Declension

Derived terms

• gagalamak

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) , “????”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1334

English

Alternative forms

• kata, katah (from Western Armenian pronunciation)
• gatah

Etymology

Borrowed from Armenian ???? (gat?a).

Noun

gata (plural gatas)

1. A kind of pastry in Armenia and some neighboring countries.

Translations

Anagrams

• Agta

Balinese

Romanization

gata

1. Romanization of ??
2. Romanization of ??

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Late Latin catta.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /??a.t?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /??a.ta/

Noun

gata f (plural gates)

1. female equivalent of gat

Fijian

Noun

gata

1. snake, serpent

Hiligaynon

Noun

gatâ

1. coconut milk

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?ta/
• Rhymes: -a?ta

Etymology 1

From Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatw?.

Noun

gata f (genitive singular götu, nominative plural götur)

1. street, road

Declension

Derived terms

• aðalgata
• gatnamót
• götustrákur

Etymology 2

From gat (“hole”).

Verb

gata (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative gataði, supine gatað)

1. (transitive) to pierce through
2. (transitive) specifically, to punch a hole in (using a perforator)
3. (intransitive, informal) to be stumped (be unable to answer a question)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• gatari

Japanese

Romanization

gata

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Masbatenyo

Noun

gatâ

1. coconut milk

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• gaten

Noun

gata m or f

1. definite feminine singular of gate

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

gata f (definite singular gata, indefinite plural gater or gator, definite plural gatene or gatone)

1. definite singular of gate
2. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by gate

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gatw?.

Noun

gata f (genitive g?tu, plural g?tur)

1. street, road

Declension

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatw?.

Noun

gata f

1. street, road

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: gata
• ? Finnish: katu

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese gata, from Late Latin catta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a.t?/
• Hyphenation: ga?ta

Noun

gata f (plural gatas)

1. female cat
2. (slang) very beautiful woman

Derived terms

• gatinha

Related terms

• gato m

Romanian

Etymology

Origin disputed. Possibly from Proto-Slavic *gotov?. The word can also be found in Albanian, compare Albanian gati (which, like the Romanian, is also invariable). Alternatively, the word may be of ultimate Paleo-Balkanic or Albanian origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a.ta/

Adjective

gata m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. ready, willing
2. done

Declension

Synonyms

• (done): terminat

Related terms

• g?ti

Adverb

gata

1. readily, willingly

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin catta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ata/, [??a.t?a]

Noun

gata f (plural gatas, masculine gato, masculine plural gatos)

1. she-cat, molly, queen, female cat

Derived terms

• a gatas

Related terms

• gato

Noun

gata f (plural gatas)

1. car-jack, jack

Related terms

• gato m
• gatear

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish gata, from Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatw?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?????ta/
• ("en gata")

Noun

gata c

1. street

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

• gata in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• agat, taga

Tagalog

Noun

gatâ

1. coconut milk