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4-letter words (4 found)

GAUR,GUAR,RAGU,RUGA,

3-letter words (5 found)

GAR,GAU,GUR,RAG,RUG,

2-letter words (5 found)

AG,AR,GU,UG,UR,

You can make 14 words from ruga according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of ruga

ruga urga rgua grua ugra gura ruag urag raug arug uarg aurg rgau grau ragu argu garu agru ugar guar uagr augr gaur agur

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Definitions and meaning of ruga

ruga

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rūga (“a crease in the face, wrinkle”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹuː.ɡə/
  • Rhymes: -uːɡə

Noun

ruga (plural rugae)

  1. (anatomy, zootomy, botany, usually in the plural) A fold, crease or wrinkle.

Derived terms

  • rugate (adjective)

Translations

References

  • “ruga”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  • “ruga”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

  • Guar., Gura, Urga, gaur, guar, ragu, ragù

Afar

Pronunciation 1

  • IPA(key): /ˈruɡa/, [ˈɾʊɡʌ]
  • Hyphenation: ru‧ga

Noun

rúga m (plural rugaagí f)

  1. male calf
Declension
Derived terms
  • (diminutive) rugáytu

Pronunciation 2

  • IPA(key): /ruˈɡa/, [ɾʊˈɡʌ]
  • Hyphenation: ru‧ga

Noun

rugá f (plural rugaagí f)

  1. female calf
Declension

References

  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN, page 183
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈru.ɣə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈru.ɣa]

Noun

ruga f (plural rugues)

  1. Alternative form of arruga (“wrinkle”)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ruga, from Proto-Indo-European *krewp- (“to become encrusted”), extension of *krew- (“scab”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈru.ɡa/
  • Rhymes: -uɡa
  • Hyphenation: rù‧ga

Noun

ruga f (plural rughe)

  1. wrinkle, line

Derived terms

  • rugoso

Anagrams

  • ragù, urga

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɾuɣa/

Verb

ruga (infinitive kũruga)

  1. to cook

Derived terms

(Nouns)

  • mũrugi class 1

(Verbs)

  • kũrugĩra

(Proverbs)

  • mũndũ ũtathiaga oigaga no nyina ũrugaga wega

References

  • Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 363. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *rougā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁roug-h₂- (“wrinkle”), related to *h₁rewg- (“to roar, belch”), where the sense development would be "to belch" → "to undulate" → "to be rugged" → "crease, wrinkle". Compare ructo (“I belch, bring up noisily”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈruː.ɡa/, [ˈruːɡä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈru.ɡa/, [ˈruːɡä]

Noun

rūga f (genitive rūgae); first declension

  1. (usually in the plural) a crease in the face, wrinkle
  2. (transferred sense) a crease, fold, plait, wrinkle, corrugation of any kind
    1. a female screw (nut (that fits on a bolt)) (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
  3. (Early Medieval Latin) a street

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • corrūgis
  • rūgō (verb)
  • rūgōsus (adjective)

Descendants

References

  • “ruga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ruga”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ruga 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)
  • “ruga”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈru.ɡa/
  • Rhymes: -uɡa
  • Syllabification: ru‧ga

Etymology 1

Deverbal from rugać.

Noun

ruga f

  1. (colloquial) scolding, slating (criticism)
    Synonym: reprymenda
Declension
Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

ruga

  1. third-person singular present of rugać

Further reading

  • ruga in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Latin ruga. Doublet of rua (“street”).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ru‧ga

Noun

ruga f (plural rugas)

  1. wrinkle
  2. crease
Related terms
  • rugoso

Etymology 2

Verb

ruga

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

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin rogāre, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃roǵ-, ablaut of *h₃reǵ-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ruˈɡa/
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: ru‧ga

Verb

a ruga (third-person singular present roagă, past participle rugat) 1st conj.

  1. (transitive) to politely ask
  2. (reflexive) to pray [+ la (deity)]
  3. (reflexive) to insistently or repeatedly ask [+ de (person)]

Usage notes

Ruga in the meaning of “ask (for)” expresses the request by a secondary clause and never through a prepositional object.

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • rugare

Related terms

  • rugăciune
  • rugăminte
  • rugător

See also

  • mă rog
  • te rog
  • vă rog

References

  • ruga in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Sardinian

Alternative forms

  • rua, arruga, orruga

Etymology 1

From Latin rūga.

Noun

ruga f (plural rugas)

  1. street
Alternative forms
  • eruga, berruca, arruga, ferruga, orruca, verruga, ruda, rugaruga

Etymology 2

From Latin eruca.

Noun

ruga f (plural rugas)

  1. caterpillar

See also

  • mamaruga f, maniposa f, babbaliscu m, cabagasu m, mariavolavola m

Spanish

Verb

ruga

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

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *ruka

Noun

ruga

  1. resin

Inflection

References

  • Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “смола”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎[2], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

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