different between nag vs nav

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?næ?/
• (North American also) IPA^(key): /ne??/, IPA^(key): /n??/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From Middle English nagge, cognate with Dutch negge.

Noun

nag (plural nags)

1. A small horse; a pony.
3. An old, useless horse.

   Synonyms: (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal, archaic) aver, dobbin, hack, jade, plug
4. (obsolete, derogatory) A paramour.
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, III. x. 11:

     Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt – Whom leprosy o'ertake!

Coordinate terms

• (old useless horse): bum (racing)

Translations

Etymology 2

Probably from a North Germanic source; compare Swedish nagga (“to gnaw, grumble”), Danish nage, Icelandic nagga (“to complain”).

Verb

nag (third-person singular simple present nags, present participle nagging, simple past and past participle nagged)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To continuously remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary matters.

Anyone would think that I nagged at you, Amanda! (From Amanda! by Robin Klein)

1. To bother with persistent thoughts or memories.

   The notion that he forgot something nagged him the rest of the day.

2. To bother or disturb persistently in any way.

   a nagging pain in his left knee

   a nagging north wind

Synonyms

• (continually remind or complain): ride
• (bother with thoughts or memories): haunt
• (persistently bother or annoy): worry

Derived terms

• nag screen
• nagware

Related terms

• gnaw

Translations

Noun

nag (plural nags)

1. Someone or something that nags.
2. A repeated complaint or reminder.
3. A persistent, bothersome thought or worry

Synonyms

• (person who nags): See Thesaurus:shrew

Derived terms

• nagless

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

nag

1. Misspelling of knack.

References

• nag at OneLook Dictionary Search
• nag in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• AGN, ANG, GAN, GNA, GaN, Gan, NGA, gan

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch nacht (“night”), from Middle Dutch nacht, from Old Dutch naht, from Proto-Germanic *nahts, from Proto-Indo-European *nók?ts.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na?/

Noun

nag (plural nagte)

1. The period between sunset and sunrise, when the sky is dark; night.
2. (countable) darkness.

Colán

Noun

nag

1. moon

Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?
• Rhymes: -a??

Noun

nag n (singular definite naget, not used in plural form)

1. grudge

Derived terms

• bære nag

Verb

nag

1. imperative of nage

Gaikundi

Noun

nag

1. sago

Further reading

• Gaikundi-Ontena Organised Phonology Data (2011)

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?k

Verb

nag

1. singular imperative of nagen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of nagen

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nag?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nog?ós (“naked”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nâ??/

Adjective

n?g (definite n?g?, Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. naked

Declension

Synonyms

• g?l, g?

Derived terms

• nág?st

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nag?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nog?ós (“naked”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ná?k/

Adjective

n?g (not comparable)

1. naked

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• gòl (more formal)

Derived terms

• nágost

Further reading

• “nag”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *nek?e, a combination of Proto-Indo-European *ne (negative particle) and *-k?e (“and”); compare Latin neque.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na?/

Particle

nag

1. not (in answers and tag questions)

Usage notes

Used before a vowel, but not when that vowel has resulted from the soft mutation of g. Thus na + gallan becomes na allan, not *nag allan.

Alternative forms

• na (used before a consonant)

White Hmong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na???/

Noun

nag

1. rain

Derived terms

• los nag

Wolof

Noun

nag (definite form nag wi)

1. cow, cattle

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *na?k? (“otter”). Cognate with Thai ??? (nâak), Ahom ???????????? (nak).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /na?k?/
• Tone numbers: nag⁸
• Hyphenation: nag

Noun

nag (Sawndip forms ???? or ? or ???? or ???? or ?, old orthography nag)

1. otter

   Synonym: duznag

English

Etymology

From navigation, abbreviation.

Pronunciation

Noun

nav (uncountable)

1. (transport, military, Internet) Navigation. Often used attributively, as in nav beacon.

Derived terms

• sat nav

Verb

nav (third-person singular simple present navs, present participle navving, simple past and past participle navved)

1. (informal) to navigate

Anagrams

• AVN, NVA, VAN, Van, Van., van

Angloromani

Etymology

From Romani nav.

Noun

nav

1. name

   Synonyms: lab, lav

References

• “nav” in The Manchester Romani Project, Angloromani Dictionary.

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *naw, from Proto-Celtic *nawan, from Proto-Indo-European *h?néwn?.

Pronunciation

Numeral

nav

1. nine

See also

• (cardinal number): Previous: eizh. Next: dek

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse n?f (“nave”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?nob?- (“navel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nav/, [naw], [naw?]

Noun

nav n (singular definite navet, plural indefinite nav)

1. nave (a hub of a wheel)

Declension

Further reading

• “nav” in Den Danske Ordbog

Latvian

Etymology

Reduced form of navaid from nevaid (both still attested in Latvian dialects), originally the negative form of vaid (“to be located, to be”). (G. F. Stenders, in his 1774 grammar, mentions under nevaid the reduced forms neva, nava and even nav' with an apostrophe.) This form replaced an earlier neir, neira (from ir, ira); compare Latvian n?rà. Forms of vaid are occasionally attested in folk tales and songs; A. B?lenšteins once heard its infinitive form vaist. It was probably an old perfect form, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, to know”) (“to see (around, where one is)” > “to find oneself, to be located, to be”); cf. Lithuanian vaidalas (“apparition, ghost”).

Verb

nav

1. (he, she, it) is not; 3rd person singular present indicative form of neb?t
2. (they) are not; 3rd person plural present indicative form of neb?t
3. (with the particle lai) let (him, her, it) not be; 3rd person singular imperative form of neb?t
4. (with the particle lai) let them not be; 3rd person plural imperative form of b?t

References

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From an earlier *nam, related to Persian ???? (nâm).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n??v/

Noun

nav m

1. name

Derived terms

• bênav
• hevenav m
• komenav m
• kurtenav m
• navdêr f
• pê?nav m
• serenav m

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse n?f f

Noun

nav n (definite singular navet, indefinite plural nav, definite plural nava or navene)

1. a hub (centre of a wheel)

References

• “nav” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse n?f f

Noun

nav n (definite singular navet, indefinite plural nav, definite plural nava)

1. a hub (centre of a wheel)

References

• “nav” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?na?/

Noun

nav f

1. ship

Romani

Alternative forms

• anav

Noun

nav m (plural nava)

1. name

Descendants

• Angloromani: nav

References

• Y?suke Sumi (2018) , “nav”, in ??????????????????? [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, ?ISBN, page 140

Romansch

Alternative forms

• nev (Puter)

Etymology

From Latin n?vis.

Noun

nav f (plural navs)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) ship

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish navan, cognate with English nave.

Noun

nav n

1. a hub (central part of a wheel)

Declension

Related terms

• navborr
• navkapsel

References

• nav in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• nav in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• anv., van, van-