fogata

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish fogata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [fuˈɣa.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [foˈɣa.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [foˈɣa.ta]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

fogata f (plural fogates)

1. bonfire

   Synonym: foguera

   • 1981, Jaume Sisa, “Nit de Sant Joan”:

     Imitarem el sol amb grans fogates

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “fogata”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
• “fogata”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “fogata”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

Hungarian

Etymology

fogat +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfoɡɒtɒ]
• Hyphenation: fo‧ga‧ta

Noun

fogata

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of fogat

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	fogata	—
accusative	fogatát	—
dative	fogatának	—
instrumental	fogatával	—
causal-final	fogatáért	—
translative	fogatává	—
terminative	fogatáig	—
essive-formal	fogataként	—
essive-modal	fogatául	—
inessive	fogatában	—
superessive	fogatán	—
adessive	fogatánál	—
illative	fogatába	—
sublative	fogatára	—
allative	fogatához	—
elative	fogatából	—
delative	fogatáról	—
ablative	fogatától	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	fogatáé	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	fogatáéi	—

Spanish

Etymology

Likely from fuego +‎ -ata, ultimately from Latin focus (“hearth”). Compare huérfano (“orphan”) and orfanato (“orphanage”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /foˈɡata/ [foˈɣ̞a.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: fo‧ga‧ta

Noun

fogata f (plural fogatas)

1. bonfire, campfire

   Synonym: hoguera

2. fougasse (improvised explosive)

Related terms

• fuego

Further reading

• “fogata”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025