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naga

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n????/

Etymology 1

From an Australian Aboriginal language; cf. Wulna n?k? (dress, covering)

Noun

naga (plural nagas)

  1. (Australia) A loincloth.
    • 1926, The Sydney Morning Herald, 30 October, 1926
      Boys and many of the men wear the naga, akin to bathing trunks []
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter II, p. 22,
      [] a young lubra wearing nothing but a naga of paper-bark rose and came forward shyly.
    • 2006, Message Stick, ABC1, Friday, 30 June, 2006
      PAUL RUNDLE: Backstage, they were just asking us, "Where are you from," and all that. And they were touching us and all that there, and I was just there with my little naga and, yeah. And plus we had no ochre, so we had to use sunscreen.
    • 2008, Derrick Tomlinson, "Too white to be regarded as Aborigines: An historical analysis of policies for the protection of Aborigines and the assimilation of Aborigines of mixed descent, and the role of Chief Protectors of Aborigines in the formulation and implementation of those policies, in Western Australia from 1898 to 1940" (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)). University of Notre Dame Australia.
      They doesn’t dress like people doing the Law this time, walking in shirt and tie, they used to have naga and really truly paint up, real tribal way, you know?

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Sanskrit ??? (n?ga, serpent, snake). Doublet of snake.

Alternative forms

  • n?ga, N?ga

Noun

naga (plural nagas)

  1. (Indian mythology) A member of a class of semi-divine creatures, often taking the form of a very large snake and associated with water.
    • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 257:
      The five-coned towers form a quincunx, and their flanks are scooped into niches in each of which has been placed a smiling buddha shaded by a nine-headed naga like a big palm fan.

Translations

References

Anagrams

  • Agan, GNAA

Bikol Central

Noun

naga

  1. the narra tree (Pterocarpus indicus)
  2. the wood from this tree

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: na?ga

Noun

naga (plural kanagahan)

  1. the narra tree (Pterocarpus indicus)
  2. the wood from this tree

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

naga

  1. first-person singular present indicative of nagaan (when using a subclause)
  2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of nagaan (when using a subclause)

Anagrams

  • gaan, ga na

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?na??a/
  • Rhymes: -a??a

Verb

naga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative nagaði, supine nagað)

  1. (transitive, governs the accusative) to gnaw

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • naga sig í handarbökin

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay naga, from Sanskrit ??? (n?gá, large snake).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?na?a]
  • Hyphenation: na?ga

Noun

naga (first-person possessive nagaku, second-person possessive nagamu, third-person possessive naganya)

  1. dragon (mythical creature)

Further reading

  • “naga” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Laboya

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?na??a]

Noun

naga

  1. jackfruit

References

  • Allahverdi Verdizade (2019) , “naga”, in Lamboya word list, Leiden: LexiRumah

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?na?a/

Adjective

naga

  1. feminine nominative singular of nagi

Maia

Noun

naga

  1. part; piece

Malay

Etymology

From Sanskrit ??? (n?gá, large snake).

Pronunciation

  • (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /na??/
  • (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /na?a/
  • Rhymes: -a??, -??, -?

Noun

naga (Jawi spelling ????, plural naga-naga, informal 1st possessive nagaku, impolite 2nd possessive nagamu, 3rd possessive naganya)

  1. dragon (mythical creature)

Further reading

  • “naga” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Maranao

Noun

naga

  1. dragon

References

  • A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

Northern Sotho

Noun

naga

  1. land, country

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?na.?a/

Adjective

naga

  1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of nagi

Portuguese

Noun

naga f (plural nagas)

  1. (Indian mythology) naga (semi-divine creature taking the form of a giant snake)

Related terms

  • naja

Tagalog

Noun

naga

  1. dragon
  2. figurehead on the prow of ships
  3. a species of narra

Yakan

Noun

naga

  1. dragon

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nag

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.
  2. An old, useless horse.
    Synonyms: (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal, archaic) aver, dobbin, hack, jade, plug
  3. (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

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