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jag
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: j?g, IPA(key): /d??æ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Etymology 1
The noun is from late Middle English jagge, the verb is from jaggen.
Noun
jag (plural jags)
- A sharp projection.
- 1600, Philemon Holland, The Romane Historie
- garments thus beset with long jagges and pursles
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, lines 323-7, [1]
- The thick black cloud was cleft, and still / The Moon was at its side; / Like waters shot from some high crag, / The lightning fell with never a jag, / A river steep and wide.
- 1909, Arthur Symons, London: A Book of Aspects, self-published, p. 3, [2]
- The especial beauty of London is the Thames, and the Thames is so wonderful because the mist is always changing its shapes and colours, always making its light mysterious, and building palaces of cloud out of mere Parliament Houses with their jags and turrets.
- 1956, C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle, Collins, 1998, Chapter 16,
- Even if you hadn’t been drowned, you would have been smashed to pieces by the terrible weight of water against the countless jags of rock.
- 1600, Philemon Holland, The Romane Historie
- A part broken off; a fragment.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Hacket to this entry?)
- 1855, Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" in Leaves of Grass, page 56:
- I depart as air .... I shake my white locks at the runway sun, / I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags.
- (botany) A cleft or division.
- (Scotland) A medical injection, a jab.
Translations
Derived terms
- jagged
- jagger
Verb
jag (third-person singular simple present jags, present participle jagging, simple past and past participle jagged)
- To cut unevenly.
- (Pittsburgh) To tease.
Translations
Etymology 2
Circa 1597; originally "load of broom or furze", variant of British English dialectal chag (“tree branch; branch of broom or furze”), from Old English ?eacga (“broom, furze”), from Proto-Germanic *kagô (compare dialectal German Kag (“stump, cabbage, stalk”), Swedish dialect kage (“stumps”), Norwegian dialect kage (“low bush”), of unknown origin.
Noun
jag (plural jags)
- Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful.
- A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, page 88:
- ‘People who spend their money for second-hand sex jags are as nervous as dowagers who can't find the rest-room.’
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, page 88:
- A fit, spell, outburst.
- 1985, Peter De Vries, The Prick of Noon, Penguin, Chapter 9, p. 165,
- Of course she did not lose her sense of humor (not necessarily to be confused with her laughing fits, which are crying jags turned inside out according to the shrinks).
- 1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, Simon & Schuster, 2007, Part 4, Chapter 1, p. 396, [3]
- Miles had a cold, he always had a cold, it went unnoticed, went without saying, he had coughing jags and slightly woozy eyes, completely unremarked by people who knew him […]
- 1985, Peter De Vries, The Prick of Noon, Penguin, Chapter 9, p. 165,
- A one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.
- (Scotland, archaic) A leather bag or wallet; (in the plural) saddlebags.
Derived terms
- get a jag on
- have a jag on
Translations
See also
- Jag
- JAG
Anagrams
- AGJ, JGA
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch jacht.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ja?/
Noun
jag (plural jagte)
- hunt, pursuit
- yacht
Verb
jag (present jag, present participle jagtende, past participle gejag)
- to hunt
Related terms
- jaag
Dalmatian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
jag
- needle
References
- Bartoli, Matteo Giulio (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ja??/, [jæj?]
Noun
jag n (singular definite jaget, plural indefinite jag)
- hurry, rush
- twinge, (a sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side)
Inflection
Verb
jag
- imperative of jage
German
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?k
Verb
jag
- singular imperative of jagen
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of jagen
Livonian
Alternative forms
- jag?
- (Courland) ja'g
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *jako.
Noun
jag
- part
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
Verb
jag
- imperative of jage
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
jag
- imperative of jaga
Romani
Etymology
From Sauraseni Prakrit ???????????????????? (aggi), from Ashokan Prakrit ???????????? (agi /aggi/), from Sanskrit ????? (agní, “fire”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hagnís, from Proto-Indo-European *h?n?g?nis. Cognate with Hindi ?? (?g), Nepali ??? (?go), Gujarati ?? (?ga), and Punjabi ??? (agga).
Noun
jag f (plural jaga)
- fire
Swedish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Swedish iak, jæk, from Old Norse jak (compare Old West Norse ek), from Proto-Norse ?? (ek), from Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *é?h?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /j??(?)/, [j???(?)]
Pronoun
jag
- I
- Jag läser en bok.
- I'm reading a book.
- Bara du och jag.
- Just you and me.
- Jag läser en bok.
Declension
Noun
jag n
- (psychology) I, self
Declension
Related terms
- jagkänsla
- överjag
Yabong
Noun
jag
- water
Further reading
- J. Bullock, R. Gray, H. Paris, D. Pfantz, D. Richardson, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Yabong, Migum, Nekgini, and Neko (2016)
Zaniza Zapotec
Noun
jag
- tree
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scar
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: skär, IPA(key): /sk??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sk??(?)/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English scar, scarre, a conflation of Old French escare (“scab”) (from Late Latin eschara, from Ancient Greek ?????? (eskhára, “scab left from a burn”), and thus a doublet of eschar) and Middle English skar (“incision, cut, fissure”) (from Old Norse skarð (“notch, chink, gap”), from Proto-Germanic *skardaz (“gap, cut, fragment”)). Akin to Old Norse skor (“notch, score”), Old English s?eard (“gap, cut, notch”). More at shard.
Displaced native Old English dolgswæþ.
Noun
scar (plural scars)
- A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
- (by extension) A permanent negative effect on someone's mind, caused by a traumatic experience.
- Any permanent mark resulting from damage.
- 1961, Dorothy Jensen Neal, Captive mountain waters: a story of pipelines and people (page 29)
- Her age-old weapons, flood and fire, left scars on the canyon which time will never efface.
- 1961, Dorothy Jensen Neal, Captive mountain waters: a story of pipelines and people (page 29)
Synonyms
- cicatrice, cicatrix
Related terms
- fire scar
- scar tissue
Translations
Verb
scar (third-person singular simple present scars, present participle scarring, simple past and past participle scarred)
- (transitive) To mark the skin permanently.
- (intransitive) To form a scar.
- (transitive, figuratively) To affect deeply in a traumatic manner.
- Seeing his parents die in a car crash scarred him for life.
Derived terms
- battle-scarred
Translations
See also
- birthmark
Etymology 2
From Middle English scarre, skarr, skerre, sker, a borrowing from Old Norse sker (“an isolated rock in the sea; skerry”). Cognate with Icelandic sker, Norwegian skjær, Swedish skär, Danish skær, German Schäre. Doublet of skerry.
Noun
scar (plural scars)
- A cliff or rock outcrop.
- A rock in the sea breaking out from the surface of the water.
- A bare rocky place on the side of a hill or mountain.
Translations
Etymology 3
From Latin scarus (“a kind of fish”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (skáros, “parrot wrasse, Sparisoma cretense, syn. Scarus cretensis”).
Noun
scar (plural scars)
- A marine food fish, the scarus or parrotfish (family Scaridae).
Anagrams
- CRAs, RACs, arcs, ascr., cars, csar, sacr-, sarc-
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish scaraid, from Proto-Celtic *skarati, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ska??/
Verb
scar (present analytic scarann, future analytic scarfaidh, verbal noun scaradh, past participle scartha)
- (transitive) sever
- (transitive) separate
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, printed in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études 270. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, p. 194:
- Synonyms: dealaigh, deighil
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, printed in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études 270. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, p. 194:
- (transitive) tear asunder
Conjugation
- Alternative verbal noun: scarúint (Munster)
Derived terms
- soscartha (“easily separated; isolable”, adjective)
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “scaraid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- “scaraim” in Foclóir Gae?ilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 602.
- "scar" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “scar” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
- “scar” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- ·scart
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skar/
Verb
·scar
- third-person singular preterite conjunct of scaraid
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