argat
Albanian
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish ارغاد (ırgat), itself from Ancient Greek ἐργάτης (ergátēs).
Noun
argat m
- manual laborer
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- argatu
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish ارغاد (ırgat), from Ancient Greek ἐργάτης (ergátēs).
Noun
argat m (plural argats, feminine equivalent argatã)
- worker, daily worker, laborer
Synonyms
- lucrãtor
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- arget
- arggat
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *argantom (“silver”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵ- (“to shine”). Cognate with Latin argentum and Old Armenian արծաթ (arcatʿ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈarɡad/
Noun
argat n
- money
- silver
Inflection
| Neuter o-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | |||
| Vocative | |||
| Accusative | |||
| Genitive | |||
| Dative | |||
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
| |||
Derived terms
- airgdide
Descendants
- Irish: airgead
- Manx: argid
- Scottish Gaelic: airgead
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| argat | unchanged | n-argat |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Romanian
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish ارغاد (ırgat), itself from Ancient Greek ἐργάτης (ergátēs).
Noun
argat m (plural argați)
- ploughboy
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish ارغاد (ırgat), from Ancient Greek ἐργάτης (ergátēs).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ǎrɡat/
- Hyphenation: ar‧gat
Noun
àrgat m (Cyrillic spelling а̀ргат)
- (historical, Ottoman empire) laborer
- (historical, Ottoman empire) peasant
- (figuratively, expressively) hard worker