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saga

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

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sega

English

Noun

sega (uncountable)

  1. (music) A genre of popular music mainly associated with Mauritius.

Anagrams

  • Sage, ages, geas, sage

Catalan

Etymology

From segar.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sega f (plural segues)

  1. reaping
    Synonym: segada
  2. harvest
  3. harvest time
    Synonym: messes

Verb

sega

  1. third-person singular present indicative form of segar
  2. second-person singular imperative form of segar

Further reading

  • “sega” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Corsican

Alternative forms

  • seca

Etymology

From the verb segà (to saw). Akin to Italian sega and French scie.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?s??a/
  • Hyphenation: se?ga

Noun

sega f (plural seghe)

  1. saw
  2. (vulgar) masturbation

References

  • “sega, seca” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Dibabawon Manobo

Noun

sega

  1. sun

Italian

Etymology

From the verb segare

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?se.?a/
  • Rhymes: -e?a

Noun

sega f (plural seghe)

  1. saw
  2. (vulgar) wank, handjob

Related terms

  • motosega
  • sega a nastro
  • sega circolare
  • segaiolo
  • segare
  • segatronchi
  • segheria

Verb

sega

  1. third-person singular present indicative of segare
  2. second-person singular imperative of segare

Javanese

Alternative forms

  • Carakan: ???
  • Roman: sêga

Noun

sega (ngoko sega, krama sekul)

  1. cooked rice

References

  • "sega" in Tim Balai Bahasa Yogyakarta, Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa). Kanisius, Yogyakarta

Latvian

Etymology

From segt (to cover).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sæ?a]

Noun

sega f (4th declension)

  1. blanket, quilt (large cloth used for covering, especially a bedcover)
  2. a layer (of something) that covers (something else)
  3. clouds, fog, smoke, vapors (seen as covering something)

Declension

Derived terms

  • galvassega, galvas sega

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?s?æ????]

Verb

s?ga

  1. third-person singular present of segti
  2. third-person plural present of segti

Mamanwa

Noun

sega

  1. sun

Portuguese

Verb

sega

  1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of segar
  2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of segar

Samoan

Noun

sega

  1. lorikeet

Swedish

Adjective

sega

  1. absolute singular definite and plural form of seg.

Veps

Etymology

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

Noun

sega

  1. hindrance, obstacle, impediment

Inflection

References

  • Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “??????, ???????????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Westrobothnian

Verb

sega

  1. (intransitive) trickle, drain; seep water

Noun

sega m (definite segan)

  1. water that seeps out from on high; flowing vein, constantly flowing liquid

Related terms

  • såg
  • siig

Yami

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese [Term?]

Verb

sega

  1. to draw

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