agulha

See also: Agulha

Galician

Noun

agulha f (plural agulhas, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of agulla

References

• “agulha” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Occitan

Etymology

From Late Latin acūcula, a diminutive of Latin acus (“needle, pin”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɡyʎo/

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Noun

agulha f (plural agulhas)

1. needle

Derived terms

• agulhada
• agulhon
• agulhonar

Descendants

• → Italian: aguglia
• → Sicilian: agugghia, avugghia, 'gugghia, 'vugghia, augghia, vugghia, ugghia

Further reading

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 34.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese agulla, from Late Latin acūcula, a diminutive of Latin acus (“needle, pin”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɡu.ʎɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɡu.ʎɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɡu.ʎa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈɡu.ʎɐ/ [ɐˈɣu.ʎɐ]

• (Caipira) IPA^(key): [aˈɡuja]
• Hyphenation: a‧gu‧lha

Noun

agulha f (plural agulhas)

1. needle (implement for sewing)
2. needle (thin device for indicating measurements on a dial or graph)
3. (botany) pine needle
4. (architecture) spire (tapering structure built on a roof or tower)

   Synonym: flecha

5. (rail transport) switch; point (movable section of railroad track)
6. (figurative) piquancy

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:agulha.

Further reading

• “agulha” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “agulha”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “agulha”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024