ruga

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹuː.ɡə/

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• Rhymes: -uːɡə

ruga (plural rugae)

1. (anatomy, zootomy, botany, usually in the plural) A fold, crease or wrinkle.
   • 1980, Joseph Kenneth Jonathan, The Isotima-complex (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), page 83:

     Female: Face subpolished, weakly rugose, rugae somewhat diverging, at sides sparsely and shallowly punctate; […]

   • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:

     the deadly water-snakes coil’d together like the Rugæ of a single great Brain, the gray and even illumination from the Sky

• rugate (adjective)

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɾuɡʌ/
• Hyphenation: ru‧ga

rúga m (plural rugaagí f)

1. male calf

• (diminutive) rugáytu

• IPA^(key): /ɾuˈɡʌ/
• Hyphenation: ru‧ga

rugá f (plural rugaagí f)

1. female calf

• 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)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈru.ɡə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈru.ɡa/

ruga f (plural rugues)

1. Alternative form of arruga (“wrinkle”)

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

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

ruga f (plural rughe)

1. wrinkle, line

• rugoso

• ragù, urga

• IPA^(key): /ɾuɣa/

ruga (infinitive kũruga)

1. to cook

(Nouns)

• mũrugi class 1

(Verbs)

• kũrugĩra

(Proverbs)

• mũndũ ũtathiaga oigaga no nyina ũrugaga wega

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

From Proto-Italic *rougā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁roug-h₂- (“wrinkle”), related to *h₁rewg- (“to roar, belch”), where the sense development would be "belch" → "be rugged" → "crease, wrinkle."[1] Compare ructo (“I belch, bring up noisily”).

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

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. (sex) a female screw

First-declension noun.

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

• “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

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

ruga f

1. (colloquial) scolding, slating (criticism)

ruga

1. third-person singular present of rugać

• ruga in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ruga in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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

• Hyphenation: ru‧ga

ruga f (plural rugas)

1. wrinkle
2. crease

• rugoso

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

• IPA^(key): [ruˈɡa]

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

1. to ask (for)
2. (reflexive) to pray
3. to beg, implore

• (ask for): cere
• (pray): închina

• rugare

• rugăciune
• rugăminte
• rugător

• mă rog
• te rog
• vă rog

• rua

From Latin rūga.

ruga f (plural rugas)

1. street

• eruga

From Latin eruca.

ruga f (plural rugas)

1. caterpillar

• mariavolavola m

ruga

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

From Proto-Finnic *ruka

ruga

1. resin

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