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

rúga m (plural rugaagí f)

1. male calf

• (diminutive) rugáytu

• IPA^(key): /ruˈɡa/, [ɾʊˈɡʌ]
• 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)

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

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 "to belch" → "to undulate"[1] → "to be rugged" → "crease, wrinkle".[2] Compare ructo (“I belch, bring up noisily”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈruː.ɡa/, [ˈruːɡä]
• (modern Italianate 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. a female screw (nut (that fits on a bolt)) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
3. (Early Medieval Latin) a street[3]

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

Deverbal from rugać.

ruga f

1. (colloquial) scolding, slating (criticism)

   Synonym: reprymenda

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ruga

1. third-person singular present of rugać

• 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

ruga

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ruˈɡa/

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• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ru‧ga

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

1. (transitive) to politely ask

   Rugăm pasagerii să își pună centurile de siguranță.

   We ask the passengers to fasten their seatbelts.

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

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

• rugare

• rugăciune
• rugăminte
• rugător

• mă rog
• te rog
• vă rog

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

• rua, arruga, orruga

From Latin rūga.

ruga f (plural rugas)

1. street

• eruga, berruca, arruga, ferruga, orruca, verruga, ruda, rugaruga

From Latin eruca.

ruga f (plural rugas)

1. caterpillar

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