oga

From Yoruba ọ̀gá (“chief, master”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊ.ɡə/
• (General American) enPR: ōʹgə, IPA^(key): /ˈoʊ.ɡə/
• Rhymes: -əʊɡə
• Homophone: ogre (non-rhotic accents)

oga (plural ogas)

1. (West Africa) A chief, employer, or superior.
   • 2013, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, chapter 50, in Americanah:

     Nigeria is not a nation of sandwich-eating people and his last oga did not eat bread in the afternoon.

• AGO, AOG, G. O. A., G.O.A., GAO, GOA, Gao, Goa, ago, goa

From Old Norse auga.

oga n

1. eye

From Proto-Finnic *oka, possibly borrowed from Proto-Baltic. Cognates include Finnish oas, oka (dialectal), Votic õgaz, Ingrian oas, Livvi ovas, Ludian ogas and Veps ogah.

• IPA^(key): /ˈoɡ̊ɑ/, [ˈoɡ̊ɑ]
• Rhymes: -oɡɑ
• Hyphenation: o‧ga

oga (genitive oga, partitive oga)

1. (botany) thorn, prickle

   Synonym: okas

2. (zootomy) spine (a strong and sharp thorn-like covering, bone or similar formation)
3. spike, barb

   Riided jäid okastraadi ogadesse kinni. ― Clothes got caught in the spikes of the barbed wire.

• (thorn, prickle): okas

• okas

• oga in Sõnaveeb
• M. Langemets, M. Tiits, T. Valdre, L. Veskis, Ü. Viks, P. Voll, editors (2009), “oga”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language]‎ (online dictionary, in Estonian), 2nd edition, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation)

• Audio (Nigeria)

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ogá (plural ogá lẹ) (Nigeria)

1. bow (weapon)

• ogaba

From Yoruba ọ̀gá (“chief”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔò.ɡáː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔò.ɡáː]

ògā m (possessed form ògan)

1. boss, someone in charge

From Proto-Baltic *wog-, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ṓˀgāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ógeh₂. Cognates include Lithuanian úoga, Old Church Slavonic агода (agoda), and possibly Tocharian B oko.[1]

• IPA^(key): [uôɡa]

oga f (4th declension)

1. berry (small fruits of various species)

   ogu sula ― berry juice

   ogu krūms ― berry bush

   ogu ķekars ― berry bunch

   iet ogās, iet lasīt ogas ― to go pick berries

   ogu laiks ― berry time (season)

• ērkšķoga

from Yoruba ọga.

oga

1. boss, master, senior
   • 2020, Holy Bible Nigerian Pidgin English‎, Nigeria: Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc., Rut [Ruth] 2:13:

     Rut kon sey, “My oga, yu really dey good to mi, bikos yu don trit mi like yor savant, even doh I nor bi yor savant!”

     Ruth then said, "My boss, you are really good to me because you treat me like your servant, even though I am not your servant!"

From Proto-West Germanic *augā.

ōga n

1. eye

• ouga

• Middle Dutch: ôge
  • Dutch: oog
  • Limburgish: oug

• “ōga”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-West Germanic *ōgan, from Proto-Germanic *ōganą (“to be afraid”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈoː.ɡɑ/, [ˈoː.ɣɑ]

ōga m

1. horror or terror

From Proto-West Germanic *augā.

Compare Old English ēage, Old Frisian āge, Old Dutch ōga, Old High German ouga, Old Norse auga, Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌲𐍉 (augō).

ōga n

1. eye

• Middle Low German: ôge
  • Low German:
    • German Low German:

      Hamburgisch: Oog

      Westphalian:

      (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Äuge

      Lippisch: Auge, Äoge

      Ravensbergisch: äuge (scientific), Auge

      Sauerländisch: Äoge, Auge, Eyege, Ouge, Oue

      Westmünsterländisch: Ooge, Oog

  • Plautdietsch: Uag

From Proto-Bantu *-jóga.

-óga (infinitive (Rwanda) kôga or (Rundi) kwôga, perfective -óze)

1. bathe, immerse

• -oza (“wash, clean”)

From Proto-Bantu *-jóga.

• Audio (Kenya)

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-oga (infinitive kuoga)

1. to wash oneself, to bathe

In some dialects, this verb may conjugate like a monosyllabic verb; see Appendix:Swahili verbs for those conjugated forms.

• Verbal derivations:
  • Causative: -ogesha (“to bathe”)