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English

Etymology

From Old Norse saga (“epic tale, story”), from Proto-Germanic *sag? (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek?e-, *sk??- (“to tell, talk”). Cognate with Old English sagu (“story, tale, statement”), Old High German saga (“an assertion, narrative, sermon, pronouncement”), Icelandic saga (“story, tale, history”), German Sage (“saga, legend, myth”). More at saw, say. Doublet of saw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s????/
• Rhymes: -????

Noun

saga (plural sagas)

1. An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
2. Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.

Translations

Anagrams

• AGAs, Agas, GAAs, agas, saag

Afar

Etymology

From Proto-Cushitic *?aac-. Compare Somali sac.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s????/

Noun

sagá f (masculine sagáytu, plural láa m)

1. cow

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Balinese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

Noun

saga

1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?sa.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?sa.?a/

Etymology 1

Old Norse saga

Noun

saga f (plural sagues)

1. saga

Etymology 2

Arabic ??????? (s?qa)

Noun

saga f (plural sagues)

1. back, behind, rear

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Old Norse saga.

Noun

saga

1. saga

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[2], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Faroese

Etymology

From sag (“saw”).

Pronunciation

• Homophone: sagað

Verb

saga (third person singular past indicative sagaði, third person plural past indicative sagaðu, supine sagað)

1. to saw

Conjugation

Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Central Pacific *sa?a, variant of *ca?a, from Proto-Oceanic *sa?a, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sa?a.

Noun

saga

1. (anatomy) thigh

Finnish

Noun

saga

1. Alternative spelling of saaga

Declension

French

Etymology

Old Norse segja (“to say”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.?a/

Noun

saga f (plural sagas)

1. saga

Further reading

• “saga” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• agas

Galician

Etymology

From the Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sag?

Noun

saga f (plural sagas)

1. sorceress, witch
2. An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
3. Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa??a/
• Rhymes: -a??a

Etymology 1

From the Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sag?. Cognate with Old English sagu (English saw); Old Frisian sege; Old High German saga (German Sage); Old Danish saghæ, Old Swedish sagha, Faroese søga, Nynorsk soge, Jutlandic save (“a narrative, a narration, a tale, a report”), Swedish saga. Perhaps related to Lithuanian pasaka.

Compare with segja (“to say, to tell”) and sögn (“a story”).

Noun

saga f (genitive singular sögu, nominative plural sögur)

1. a story

2. a history

3. a saga

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From sög (“saw”).

Verb

saga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative sagaði, supine sagað)

1. to saw

Conjugation

Etymology 3

Noun

saga

1. indefinite genitive plural of sög

Anagrams

• gasa

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay saga, from Proto-Malayic *saga, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

Noun

saga (first-person possessive sagaku, second-person possessive sagamu, third-person possessive saganya)

1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa.?a/
• Hyphenation: sà?ga

Etymology 1

From Old Norse saga.

Noun

saga f (plural saghe)

1. saga

Etymology 2

From Latin s?ga.

Noun

saga f (plural saghe)

1. (obsolete, literary) witch

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

saga

1. singular feminine of sago

Anagrams

• gasa

Japanese

Romanization

saga

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Javanese

Etymology

From Old Javanese, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

Noun

saga

1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

Latin

Etymology 1

Substantivisation of the female form of s?gus (“soothsaying”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sa?.?a/, [?s?ä??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sa.?a/, [?s????]

Noun

s?ga f (genitive s?gae); first declension

1. a female soothsayer, diviner, fortune-teller, prophetess, witch

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Italian: saga

Etymology 2

Adjective

s?ga

1. inflection of s?gus:
   1. singular feminine nominative/vocative
   2. plural neuter nominative/accusative/vocative

Adjective

s?g?

1. singular feminine ablative of s?gus

Etymology 3

Noun

saga n

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sagum

Etymology 4

From Old Norse saga.

Noun

saga f (genitive sagae); first declension

1. (New Latin) saga
   • Saxonis Grammatici Historia danica. Recensuit et commentariis illustravit Dr. Petrus Erasmus Müller. Opus morte Mülleri interruptum absolvit Mag. Joannes Matthias Velschow, pars posterior, 1858, p. lxii:

Declension

First-declension noun.

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• (sagà) IPA^(key): [s?????]
• (sãga) IPA^(key): [?s?ä????]

Etymology 1

Noun

sagà f (plural sãgos) stress pattern 4

1. button

   sagas ?si?ti - to sew buttons on

Declension

Derived terms

• (diminutive nouns) sagel?, sagut?

Related terms

• (verb) segti

Etymology 2

From Old Norse.

Noun

sagà f (plural sãgos) stress pattern 2

1. saga
2. (in broader sense) story, legend

Declension

Synonyms

• (legend): sakm? f

Anagrams

• gasa

References

Malay

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayic *saga, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

Noun

saga (Jawi spelling ????, plural saga-saga, informal 1st possessive sagaku, impolite 2nd possessive sagamu, 3rd possessive saganya)

1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

Etymology 2

From English saga, from Old Norse saga (“epic tale, story”), from Proto-Germanic *sag? (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek?e-, *sk??- (“to tell, talk”).

Noun

saga (Jawi spelling ????, plural saga-saga, informal 1st possessive sagaku, impolite 2nd possessive sagamu, 3rd possessive saganya)

1. saga (Old Norse Icelandic prose)
2. saga (long epic story)

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• (of sag) sagen
• (of sage) saget
• (of sage) sagde (simple past)
• (of sage) sagd (past participle)

Noun

saga m or f

1. definite feminine singular of sag

Verb

saga

1. inflection of sage:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Old Norse saga, whence also the modern doublet of soge. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sag?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??.??/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

saga f or m (definite singular sagaen or sagaa, indefinite plural sagaar or sagaer, definite plural sagaane or sagaene)

1. a saga

Etymology 2

From sag (“saw”) +? -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²s??.??/ (example of pronunciation)

Verb

saga (present tense sagar, past tense saga, past participle saga, passive infinitive sagast, present participle sagande, imperative sag)

1. to saw

Alternative forms

• sage (e-infinitive)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s??.??/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

saga f

1. definite singular of sag

References

• “saga” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• gaas, gasa, saag

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?.??/, [?s?.??]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *sagô (“saw, scythe”), *sag?, from Proto-Indo-European *sek-, *s?ik- (“to cut”). Cognate with Old Frisian sage (West Frisian seage), Old Saxon saga, Middle Dutch sage, saghe (Dutch zaag), Old High German [Term?] (“saga”) (German Säge), Old Norse s?g (Icelandic sög, Danish sav, Swedish såg).

Alternative forms

• sagu

Noun

saga m (nominative plural sagan)

1. saw (tool)

Descendants

• Middle English: sawe
  • Scots: seg
  • English: saw
    • Sranan Tongo: sa

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *sag?, from Proto-Germanic *sag?, *sag? (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek?e-, *sk??- (“to tell, talk”). More at saw.

Noun

saga m (nominative plural sagan)

1. saying; statement
2. story, tale; narrative

Declension

Related terms

• sagu

Etymology 3

Verb

saga

1. imperative of se??an

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sag?, from Proto-Germanic *sag?. Cognate with Old English sagu, Old Norse saga.

Noun

saga f

1. story

Descendants

• Middle High German: sage
  • German: Sage
  • Luxembourgish: So

Old Javanese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

Noun

saga

1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sag?. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sek?- (“to say”)

Noun

saga f (genitive s?gu, plural s?gur)

1. story, history, legend, saga

Declension

Descendants

References

• saga in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sag?. Cognate with Old English sagu, Old Frisian sege, Old High German saga (German Sage), Old Norse saga.

Noun

saga f

1. statement, discourse, report

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Norse saga.

Noun

saga f (plural sagas)

1. saga (Old Norse prose narrative)
2. (by extension) saga (long, epic story)

Romanian

Etymology

From French saga.

Noun

saga f (uncountable)

1. saga

Declension

Sasak

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

Noun

saga

1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Old Norse saga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sâ??a/
• Hyphenation: sa?ga

Noun

s?ga f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. saga

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Norse saga.

Noun

saga f (plural sagas)

1. saga

Sundanese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

Noun

saga

1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish sagha, from Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sag?. Cognate with Danish saghæ, Faroese søga, Norwegian Nynorsk soge, Faroese søga, Norwegian Nynorsk soge, Jutish save (“a narrative, a narration, a tale, a report”), Icelandic saga, English saw, German Sage. Perhaps related to Lithuanian pasaka.

Pronunciation

Noun

saga c

1. fairy tale
2. epic, long story

Declension

Descendants

• ? Finnish: saaga

Anagrams

• agas

Tagalog

Noun

sagà

1. vine with small, red, and black seeds often used as beads

Turkish

Etymology

From Old Norse saga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s???]

Noun

saga (definite accusative sagay?, plural sagalar)

1. Old Norse (Icelandic) saga

Declension

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