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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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napa

English

Etymology

From the regional and colloquial Japanese term ??? (nappa, leaves of any vegetable).

Noun

napa (countable and uncountable, plural napas)

  1. Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis, a kind of Chinese cabbage.

Synonyms

  • celery cabbage

Anagrams

  • APAn, Pana, apan, paan

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *napa, from Proto-Indo-European *h?neb?- (navel) either through Germanic or Baltic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n?p?/, [?n?p?]
  • Rhymes: -?p?
  • Syllabification: na?pa

Noun

napa

  1. (anatomy) navel
  2. pole (extreme of an axis; magnetic or electrical pole)
  3. pivot (that on which something turns)
  4. head (central part of propeller)
  5. (in compounds) polar

Declension

Synonyms

  • keskipiste

Derived terms

Anagrams

  • apan

Garo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

napa (intransitive)

  1. enter, go in, come in
  2. set (of the sun and moon)

See also

  • -nap-

Ingrian

Noun

napa

  1. navel

Miskito

Noun

napa

  1. tooth

Uma

Noun

napa

  1. (interrogative) what

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