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Arg

Arg

See also: arg, ARG, and Arg.

Translingual

Noun

Arg

  1. (biochemistry) IUPAC 3-letter abbreviation of arginine

arg

arg

See also: Arg, ARG, and Arg.

English

Noun

arg (plural args)

  1. (programming, informal) An argument; a value passed as a parameter.
    The first arg needs to be an int.

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Arbëreshë; from Proto-Albanian *arga, from Proto-Indo-European *Horgʰi (compare Armenian ոջիլ (oǰil)).

Noun

arg m

  1. (Arbëreshë) nit

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *argaz. Compare German arg. Cognate to Finnish arka.

Adjective

arg (genitive ara, partitive arga, comparative arem, superlative kõige arem)

  1. cowardly, shy

Declension


German

Etymology

Old High German arg.

Adjective

arg (comparative ärger, superlative am ärgsten)

  1. bad

Declension


Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish orcaid.

Verb

arg (present analytic argann, future analytic argfaidh, verbal noun argain, past participle argtha)

  1. (transitive) destroy, plunder

Conjugation

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
arg n-arg harg unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • "arg" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • oirgid” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Old High German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *argaz, whence also Old English earg, Old Norse argr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /arɣ/, /arg/

Adjective

arg

  1. bad, wicked, godless

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish argher, from Old Norse argr, from Proto-Germanic *argaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃orǵʰ-, *h₃erǵʰ- (to copulate).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /arj/

Adjective

arg (comparative argare, superlative argast)

  1. angry

Declension

Inflection of arg
Indefinite/attributive Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular arg argare argast
Neuter singular argt argare argast
Plural arga argare argast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 arge argare argaste
All arga argare argaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in an attributive role.

Synonyms