different between wagon vs laager

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch wagen, from Middle Dutch wagen, from Old Dutch *wagan, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *wo??nos (“wagon, primitive carriage”), from *we??- (“to transport”). Cognate with Danish vogn (“wagon”), German Wagen (“vehicle; wagon”), Saterland Frisian Woain (“wagon”), West Frisian wein (“wagon”), Swedish vagn (“wagon”). Doublet of wain (inherited from Old English wæ?n) and related also to way, weigh.

Sense 9 (“woman of loose morals; obnoxious woman”) is probably a derogatory and jocular reference to a woman being “ridden”, that is, mounted for the purpose of sexual intercourse.

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?wæ?(?)n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?wæ??n/
• Rhymes: -æ??n
• Hyphenation: wa?gon

Noun

wagon (plural wagons)

1. A four-wheeled cart for hauling loads. [from late 15th c.]
2. A four-wheeled child's riding toy, pulled or steered by a long handle attached to the front.
3. An enclosed vehicle for carrying goods or people; (by extension) a lorry, a truck.
4. An enclosed vehicle used as a movable dwelling; a caravan.
5. Short for dinner wagon (“set of light shelves mounted on castors so that it can be pushed around a dining room and used for serving”).
6. (slang) Short for paddy wagon (“police van for transporting prisoners”).
7. (rail transport) A freight car on a railway.

   Synonym: (Britain) goods wagon
8. (chiefly Australia, US, slang) Short for station wagon (“type of car in which the roof extends rearward to produce an enclosed area in the position of and serving the function of the boot (trunk)”); (by extension) a sport utility vehicle (SUV); any car.
9. (Ireland, slang, derogatory, dated) A woman of loose morals, a promiscuous woman, a slapper; (by extension) a woman regarded as obnoxious; a bitch, a cow.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:promiscuous woman
10. (mathematics) A kind of prefix used in de Bruijn notation.
11. (slang) Buttocks.

Alternative forms

• wagan, waghen (obsolete)
• waggon (Britain, dated)

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Dutch: wagon
• ? French: wagon (see there for further descendants)
• ? German: Waggon
• ? Japanese: ???, ??? (wagon)
• ? Polish: wagon
• ? Spanish: vagón

Translations

Verb

wagon (third-person singular simple present wagons, present participle wagoning, simple past and past participle wagoned)

1. (transitive, chiefly US) To load into a wagon in preparation for transportation; to transport by means of a wagon.
2. (intransitive, chiefly US) To travel in a wagon.

Derived terms

• wagoning, waggoning (noun)

Translations

References

Further reading

• wagon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• wagon in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Gowan, gowan, wango, wonga

Dutch

Alternative forms

• waggon (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from English waggon, from Dutch wagen, from Middle Dutch wagen, from Old Dutch *wagan, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz (“wagon”), from Proto-Indo-European *wo??nos. The pronunciation was likely influenced by French wagon, which was also borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a????n/
• Hyphenation: wa?gon
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

wagon m (plural wagons, diminutive wagonnetje n)

1. A train car, a wagon (railway carriage, a nonpowered unit in a railroad train).

Derived terms

• goederenwagon
• personenwagon
• metrowagon
• tramwagon
• treinwagon
• veewagon

Related terms

• wagen

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: wagon

French

Etymology

From English waggon, from Dutch wagen.

Pronunciation

• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /wa.???/
• (France, Switzerland) IPA^(key): /va.???/

Noun

wagon m (plural wagons)

1. a railway carriage (note that the word voiture is preferred for passenger transport)

Descendants

• ? Czech: vagón
• ? Italian: vagone
• ? Khmer: ???????? (vaagong)
• ? Lao: ????? (w? kong)
• ? Portuguese: vagão
• ? Russian: ?????? (vagón) (see there for further descendants)
• ? Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ???????

  Latin: vàg?n

• ? Slovak: vagón
• ? Slovene: vagon
• ? Turkish: vagon

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch wagon, from English waggon, from Dutch wagen, From Middle Dutch wagen, from Old Dutch wagan, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wo??nos, from *we??-. Doublet of wahana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?wa??n], [?wa?on]
• Hyphenation: wa?gon

Noun

wagon (first-person possessive wagonku, second-person possessive wagonmu, third-person possessive wagonnya)

1. car (a railway carriage, a nonpowered unit in a railroad train).

Alternative forms

• wahon

Further reading

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

Japanese

Romanization

wagon

1. R?maji transcription of ???
2. R?maji transcription of ???

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• wogon
• -wagian (found in witharwagian (to flow back))

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wag?n?.

Verb

wag?n

1. to sway

Polish

Etymology

From French wagon, from English waggon, from Dutch wagen, from Middle Dutch wagen, from Old Dutch *wagan, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *wo??nos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va.??n/

Noun

wagon m inan

1. (rail transportation) car (a railway carriage, a nonpowered unit in a railroad train)
2. (colloquial) truckload

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• lager

Etymology

From South African Dutch lager (“camp”) (modern Afrikaans laer), from German Lager, from Middle High German leger, from Old High German legar, from Proto-Germanic *legr?. Doublet of lager and lair.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l??.??/
• (Canada, military) IPA^(key): /?li.???/
• Rhymes: -????(r)

Noun

laager (plural laagers)

1. A defensive encampment encircled by wagons, especially by South African Boers.
   • 1897, James Bryce, Impressions of South Africa

     Wagons […] can be readily formed into a laager, a camp, by being drawn into a circle, with the oxen placed inside and so kept safe from the attacks of wild beasts.

   • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 332:

     “And for how long d'you think you're going to be safe in the cities?” Louis persisted. “Just a matter of time, then our frontiers will shrink as we draw our little laager more and more tightly.”

2. (military) A temporary formation of armoured vehicles for resupply.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with lager beer (though both words come from the German Lager).

Translations

Verb

laager (third-person singular simple present laagers, present participle laagering, simple past and past participle laagered)

1. (transitive) To arrange in a circular formation for defence.
   • 1917, H. Rider Haggard, Finished

     At the foot of this isolated mount, whereof the aspect somehow filled me with alarm, we camped on the night of January 21, taking no precautions against attack by way of laagering the wagons.

2. (intransitive) To camp in a circular formation.
   • 2000, Jeff Dossett, Delayed Detonation (page 44)

     That evening, we laagered close to a large open area covered with elephant grass about six feet high.

See also

• laager on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• circle the wagons

Anagrams

• aglare, alegar

Estonian

Etymology

From German Lager. Etymological twin of leer.

Noun

laager (genitive laagri, partitive laagrit)

1. camp
2. bearing (mechanical device)

Declension