different between take vs bag

English

Etymology

From Middle English taken (“to take, lay hold of, grasp, strike”), from Old English tacan (“to grasp, touch”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse taka (“to touch, take”), from Proto-Germanic *t?kan? (“to touch”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh?g- (“to touch”). Gradually displaced Middle English nimen ("to take"; see nim), from Old English niman (“to take”). Cognate with Icelandic and Norwegian Nynorsk taka (“to take”), Norwegian Bokmål ta (“to take”), Swedish ta (“to take”), Danish tage (“to take, seize”), Middle Dutch taken (“to grasp”), Dutch taken (“to take; grasp”), Middle Low German tacken (“to grasp”). Compare tackle.

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?k, IPA^(key): /te?k/, [t?e??k]
• Rhymes: -e?k

Verb

take (third-person singular simple present takes, present participle taking, simple past took, past participle taken)

1. (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
   1. (transitive) To seize or capture.

   2. (transitive) To catch or get possession of (fish or game).

   3. (transitive, cricket) To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
   4. (transitive) To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.

   5. (transitive) To exact.

   6. (transitive) To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.

2. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc).

   • Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer.

   1. (transitive) To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.

   2. (transitive) To accept and follow (advice, etc).

   3. (transitive) To receive into some relationship.

   4. (transitive, intransitive, law) To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
      • 1832, Lodge v Simonton, in Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, page 442:

        There was no intestacy, and they did not take under the will as heirs, […]

      • 1913, Conrad v Conrad et al (Court of Appeals of Kentucky, Feb. 25, 1913), in The Southwestern Reporter, volumes 153-154, page 741:

        The only interest they have in the land arises under the will of E. J. Turnham, under which they take one half of the land.

3. (transitive) To remove.
   1. (transitive) To remove or end by death; to kill.

   2. (transitive) To subtract.

4. (transitive) To have sex with.
   • 2014 July 3, Susan Calman, during Mock the Week, series 13, episode 4:

     And the queen takes the bishop... this is turning out to be quite the royal wedding!

5. (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.

6. (transitive) To grasp or grip.

7. (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.

   • Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken.

8. (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.

9. (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
   1. (transitive, especially of a vehicle) To transport or carry; to convey to another place.

   2. (transitive, of a path, road, etc.) To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.

   3. (transitive) To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.

   4. (transitive) To escort or conduct (a person).
      • 2002(?), J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

        They're taking the Hobbits to Isengard!

   5. (reflexive) To go.
      • 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, 2008, page 59

        Nicholas then took himself to Avignon where in August 1330 he formally renounced his claim to the papacy.

10. (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.

11. (obsolete) To visit; to include in a course of travel.
    • c. 1677, William Penn, Travels in Holland and Germany

      Almost a year since, R. B. and B. F. took that city, in the way from Frederickstadt to Amsterdam, and gave them a visit.

    • 1827, Wesleyan Methodism in Manchester and its vicinity, volume 1, page 7:

      Mr. Clayton had not been long in his new situation, before Mr. Wasley tendered his personal respects to him; "For in May (1733), he set out for Epsworth, and took Manchster in his way to see him."

12. (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
    1. (transitive) To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.

13. (transitive) To consume.
    1. (transitive) To receive (medicine) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.

    2. (transitive) To partake of (food or drink); to consume.

       • To such men as Mr. Hellyer, who every night take much strong drink, and on no occasion whatever take any exercise, sixty is the grand climacteric. He was, a year ago, just fifty-nine. Alas! he has not even reached his grand climacteric. Already he is gone. He was cut off by pneumonia, or apoplexy, last Christmas.

14. (transitive) To experience, undergo, or endure.
    1. (transitive) To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.

    2. (transitive) To experience or feel.
    3. (transitive) To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).

    4. (transitive) To participate in.
    5. (transitive) To suffer, to endure (a hardship or damage).

15. (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.

    He had to take it apart to fix it.

    She took down her opponent in two minutes.
16. (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
17. (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.

18. (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
    • 1853, The American Journal of Science and Arts, page 125:

      The author explained the theory of Dove, which, if we took him correctly, was, that the lustre of bodies and particularly the metallic lustre arose from the light coming from the one stratum of the superficial particles of bodies interfering on the eye […]

19. (transitive) To accept or be given (rightly or wrongly); assume (especially as if by right).

20. (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
    • c. 1674-1718, Nicholas Rowe:

      I take thee at thy word.

21. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
22. (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
    • c. 1630-1694,, John Tillotson, Sermon V, The Excellency of the Christian Religion:

      And the firm belief of a future Judgment, which shall render to every man according to his deeds, if it be well consider'd, is to a reasonable nature the most forcible motive of all other to a good life; because it is taken from the consideration of the greatest and most lasting happiness and misery that human nature is capable of.

23. (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.

24. (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc).

25. (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
26. (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.

    • Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

    • 1688, William Wake, Preparation for Death

      Cleombroutus was so taken with this speculation, that […] he had not patience.

    • 1827, Thomas Moore, The Epicurean

      I know not why, but there was a something in those half-seen features, — a charm in the very shadow that hung over their imagined beauty, — which took my fancy more than all the outshining loveliness of her companions.

27. (transitive, of a material) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc).

28. (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
29. (transitive) To require.
    • 1920, China Monthly Review 15, page 357:

      If the summary of the Tientsin society is accurate, a famine population of more than 14,000,000 is already bad enough. If it takes five dollars to keep one of them alive, […]

    • 2009, Living It Out ?ISBN:

      While it takes courage to come out, the acceptance of parents and other family members can really help the person coming out to accept themselves.
30. (transitive) To proceed to fill.

31. (transitive) To fill, to use up (time or space).

32. (transitive) To avail oneself of.

33. (transitive) To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.

    • To such men as Mr. Hellyer, who every night take much strong drink, and on no occasion whatever take any exercise, sixty is the grand climacteric.

34. (transitive) To assume or perform (a form or role).
    1. (transitive) To assume (a form).

    2. (transitive) To perform (a role).

    3. (transitive) To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc).
35. (transitive) To bind oneself by.

36. (transitive) To move into.

37. (transitive) To go into, through, or along.

38. (transitive) To have and use one's recourse to.

39. (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.

40. (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.

41. (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).

42. (transitive, dated) To take a picture, photograph, etc of (a person, scene, etc).

43. (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.

44. (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.

45. (transitive) To deal with.

46. (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.

47. (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.

48. (transitive) To accept as an input to a relation.
    1. (transitive, grammar) To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc).

    2. (transitive, mathematics, computing) To accept (zero or more arguments).

49. (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.

50. (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
    1. (Of ink; dye; etc.) To adhere or be absorbed properly.

    2. (of a plant, etc) To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
       • 1884, Stephen Bleecker Luce, Text-book of Seamanship, page 179:

         The cradles are supported under their centres by shores, on which the keel takes.

    3. (of a mechanical device) To catch; to engage.
       • 2009, Sheldon Russell, The Yard Dog: A Mystery, page 210:

         At the depot, Hook climbed out, slamming the door twice before the latch took.

    4. (possibly dated) To win acceptance, favor or favorable reception; to charm people.
       • c. 1672-1719, Joseph Addison:

         Each wit may praise it for his own dear sake, / And hint he writ it, if the thing should take.

    5. To have the intended effect.
       • 1967, Richard Martin Stern, The Kessler Legacy, page 103:

         "When I was young," I said, "I was vaccinated with religion, but the vaccination didn't take."

51. (intransitive, copulative) To become; to be affected in a specified way.

52. (intransitive, possibly dated) To be able to be accurately or beautifully photographed.
53. (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
54. (transitive, obsolete) To deliver, bring, give (something) to (someone).
    • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew 22.19:

      Jesus perceaved there wylynes, and sayde: Why tempte ye me ye ypocrytes? lett me se the tribute money. And they toke hym a peny.

55. (transitive, obsolete outside dialects and slang) To give or deliver (a blow, to someone); to strike or hit.

Conjugation

Usage notes

• In a few informal sociolects, took is sometimes replaced by the proscribed form taked.
• In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb take had the form takest, and had tookest for its past tense.
• Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form taketh was used.

Quotations

• 1686, John Dryden, To The Pious Memory of the Accomplish'd Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew

  Beauty alone could beauty take so right.

• 1973, Albert J. Reiss, The Police and the Public, page 44:

  A lot of officers when they knock off a still will take an axe to the barrels.

Synonyms

• (to get into one's possession): confiscate, seize; see also Thesaurus:take
• (military: to gain a position by force): capture, conquer, seize
• (to receive or accept something): garner, get, obtain, win; see also Thesaurus:receive
• (to remove): knock off, subduct; see also Thesaurus:remove
• (to kill): do in, off, terminate; see also Thesaurus:kill
• (to subtract): take away; see also Thesaurus:subtract
• (to have sex with): have, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
• (to defeat in a fight): beat
• (to grasp with the hands): grab, grasp, grip, nim; see also Thesaurus:grasp
• (to consume): ingest, swallow

Antonyms

• (to accept): give
• (to carry): bring
• drop

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

take (plural takes)

1. The or an act of taking.
   • 1999, Impacts of California sea lions and Pacific harbor seals [...] (published by the United States National Marine Fisheries Service), page 32:

     The 1994 Amendments address the incidental take of marine mammals in the course of commercial fishing, not the direct lethal take of pinnipeds for management purposes.

2. Something that is taken; a haul.
   1. Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits.
      • 2018 November 27, Paul Krugman, “The Depravity of Climate-Change Denial”, The New York Times, page A22:

        Money is still the main answer: Almost all prominent climate deniers are on the fossil-fuel take.

   2. The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
3. An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective.

4. An approach, a (distinct) treatment.

5. (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.

6. (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
7. A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
8. (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
9. (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
10. (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
    • 1884, John Southward, Practical Printing: A Handbook of the Art of Typography (page 197)

      A take usually consists of a little more than a stickful of matter, but it varies sometimes, for if a new paragraph occurs it is not overlooked. These takes are carefully numbered, and a list is kept of the compositors who take the several pieces.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take
• intake
• outtake
• spit take
• taking, taking
• uptake

References

Anagrams

• Kate, kate, keta, teak

Japanese

Romanization

take

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Marshallese

Etymology

Borrowed from English turkey, named after Turkey, from Middle English Turkye, from French Turquie, Medieval Latin Turcia, from Turcus (“Turk”), from Byzantine Greek ??????? (Toûrkos), from Persian ???? (Turk), from Middle Persian twlk' (Turk), from an Old Turkic autonym, Türk or Türük.

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [t???e]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /t?ækej/
• Bender phonemes: {tak?y}

Noun

take

1. a turkey

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /take/

Etymology

From French taquet.

Noun

take

1. power switch.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Verb

take (third-person singular simple present taketh, present participle takende, first-/third-person singular past indicative toke, past participle taken)

1. Alternative form of taken

Verb

take

1. Alternative form of taken: past participle of taken

Etymology 2

Noun

take (plural takes)

1. Alternative form of tak (“tack (small nail)”)

Etymology 3

Verb

take (third-person singular simple present taketh, present participle takynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle taked)

1. Alternative form of takken

Etymology 4

Noun

take (plural takes)

1. Alternative form of tak (“tack (fee paid to keep swine)”)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

take (present tense tek, past tense tok, past participle teke, passive infinitive takast, present participle takande, imperative tak)

1. Alternative form of taka

Pilagá

Verb

take

1. want

   se-take — I want

References

• 2001, Alejandra Vidal, quoted in Subordination in Native South-American Languages

English

Etymology

From Middle English bagge, borrowed from Old Norse baggi (“bag, pack, satchel, bundle”), related to Old Norse b?ggr (“harm, shame; load, burden”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *b?ak- (compare Welsh baich (“load, bundle”), Ancient Greek ???????? (bástagma, “load”)).

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?g, IPA^(key): /?bæ?/
• (Southern England, Australia) IPA^(key): /?bæ??/
• (US, some dialects) IPA^(key): /?b??/
• (US, Upper Midwest) IPA^(key): /?be??/,
• Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

bag (plural bags)

1. A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc.

   Synonyms: (obsolete) poke, sack, tote

   Hyponym: bindle

2. (informal) A handbag

   Synonyms: handbag, (US) purse

3. A suitcase.
4. A schoolbag, especially a backpack.
5. (slang) One’s preference.

   Synonyms: cup of tea, thing; see also Thesaurus:predilection

6. (derogatory) An ugly woman.

   Synonyms: dog, hag

7. (LGBT, slang, US, derogatory) A fellow gay man.
8. (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.

9. (baseball) First, second, or third base.

10. (preceded by "the") A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
11. (mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.

    Synonym: multiset
12. A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.

13. (now historical) A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
    • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. II, ch. 54:

      [H]e had once lost his bag, and a considerable quantity of hair, which had been cut off by some rascal in his passage through Ludgate, during the lord mayor's procession.

    • 1774, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, 1 December:

      He had on a suit of Manchester velvet, Lined with white satten, a Bag, lace Ruffles, and a very handsome sword which the King had given to him.

14. The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
15. (slang, vulgar) A scrotum.
16. (Britain) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
17. (chiefly in the plural) A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
18. (slang) A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
19. (MLE, slang) £1000, a grand.
20. (informal) A large number or amount.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Korean: ? (baek)
• Norwegian: bag

Translations

Verb

bag (third-person singular simple present bags, present participle bagging, simple past and past participle bagged)

1. To put into a bag.
2. to take with oneself, to assume into one’s score
   1. (informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
   2. To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
   3. (slang, African American Vernacular) To bring a woman one met on the street with one.
   4. (slang, MLE) To end the being at large of someone, to deprive of somone’s corporeal freedom in the course of a criminal procedure.

      Synonym: nick
3. (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.

   • a bee bagged with his honeyed venom

   1. (transitive, medicine) To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
   2. (transitive, medicine) To fit with a bag to collect urine.
      • 1985, Sol S. Zimmerman, Joan Holter Gildea, Critical Care Pediatrics (page 205)

        The patient was bagged for a urine analysis and stat electrolytes were drawn.

4. to expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
   1. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.

   2. To hang like an empty bag.
      • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 3,^[1]

        [...] he was dressed in a badly fitting white drill suit, with trousers bagging concertina-like over clumsy black boots.

      • 2004, Andrea Levy, Small Island, London: Review, Chapter Eleven, p. 125,^[2]

        And this uniform did not even fit me so well. But what is a little bagging on the waist and tightness under the arm when you are a gallant member of the British Royal Air Force?

   3. (nautical, intransitive) To drop away from the correct course.
   4. (obsolete, intransitive) To become pregnant.

      (Can we find and add a quotation of Warner. (Alb. Eng.) to this entry?)

5. to show particular puffy emotion
   1. (obsolete, intransitive) To swell with arrogance.

      (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

   2. (slang, African American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
   3. (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• -gab-, ABG, AGB, BGA, GAB, GBA, Gab, gab, gab-

Antillean Creole

Etymology

From French bague.

Noun

bag

1. ring

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• bagu

Etymology

Either of substratum origin or from a Vulgar Latin *beg?, from Late Latin b?g?, from Latin b?ga. Less likely from Greek ???? (vázo, “put in, set on”). May have originally referred to putting animals under a yoke. Compare Romanian b?ga, bag.

Verb

bag (past participle bãgatã or bãgate)

1. I put, place, apply.

Related terms

• bãgari / bãgare
• bãgat
• nibãgat

See also

• pun

Breton

Etymology

Probably tied to Old French bac (“flat boat”), itself of obscure origin.

Noun

bag f

1. boat

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse bak n (“back”), from Proto-Germanic *bak?, cognate with Norwegian bak, Swedish bak, English back. The preposition is a shortening of Old Norse á bak (“on the back of”), compare English back from aback, from Old English onbæc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba???/, [?b?æ?j], [?b?æ?], (as a preposition or adverb always) IPA^(key): [?b?æ?]

Noun

bag c (singular definite bagen, plural indefinite bage)

1. (anatomy) behind, bottom, butt, buttocks
2. seat (part of clothing)

Inflection

Synonyms

• (behind): bagdel, ende, røv (informal)
• (seat): buksebag

Preposition

bag

1. behind

Adverb

bag

1. behind

Etymology 2

From the verb to bake

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba???/, [?b?æ?j], [?b?æ?]

Noun

bag n (singular definite baget, plural indefinite bage)

1. (rare) pastry

   Synonym: bagværk

Inflection

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba???/, [?b?æ?j], [?b?æ?]

Verb

bag

1. imperative of bage

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French bague (“ring”).

Noun

bag

1. ring

Meriam

Noun

bag

1. cheek

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• bagg

Etymology

Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæ?/

Noun

bag m (definite singular bagen, indefinite plural bager, definite plural bagene)

1. A purse more or less similar to a bag or sack.
2. (on a baby carriage) a detachable part of the carriage to lie on.

References

• “bag” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• bagg

Etymology

Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi. Doublet of bagge.

Noun

bag m (definite singular bagen, indefinite plural bagar, definite plural bagane)

1. A purse more or less similar to a bag or sack.
2. (on a baby carriage) a detachable part of the carriage to lie on.

References

• “bag” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• b?ch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring”) Cognate to Old English b?ag

Noun

b?g m

1. a ring

Inflection

Rohingya

Etymology

From Magadhi Prakrit [Term?], from Sanskrit ??????? (vy?ghra).

Noun

bag

1. tiger

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ba?]

Verb

bag

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of b?ga

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi.

Noun

bag c

1. A kind of large bag; a duffel bag

Declension

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From Meriam bag.

Noun

bag

1. (anatomy, eastern dialect) cheek

Synonyms

• masa (western dialect)

Turkmen

Etymology

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

Noun

bag (definite accusative bagy, plural baglar)

1. garden

Welsh

Etymology

From English bag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/

Noun

bag m (plural bagiau)

1. bag

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “bag”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /pa?k?/
• Tone numbers: bag⁸
• Hyphenation: bag

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From Proto-Tai *bra:kD?”)

Verb

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

1. to chop; to split
2. (of lightning) to strike
3. to dive; to swoop down
4. to divide
5. to cut across

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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

1. mental illness

Adjective

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

1. crazy; mad; insane

   Synonym: vangh

Descendants

• mabag

Verb

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

1. to become crazy; to go mad; to go nuts

   Synonym: vangh