agulha

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

• IPA^(key): /aˈɡyʎo/

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agulha f (plural agulhas)

1. needle

• agulhada
• agulhon
• agulhonar

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

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

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

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

For quotations using this term, see Citations:agulha.