Saga
See also: Appendix:Variations of "saga"
Translingual edit
Etymology edit
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Proper noun edit
Saga f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Tettigoniidae – certain bush crickets.
Hypernyms edit
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum; Insecta - class; Pterygota - subclass; Neoptera - infraclass; Polyneoptera - superorder; Orthoptera - order; Ensifera - suborder; Tettigoniidea - infraorder; Tettigonioidea - superfamily; Tettigoniidae - family; Saginae - subfamily
Hyponyms edit
- (genus): Saga pedo (predatory bush cricket, spiked magician) - type species; Saga hellenica - selected species
References edit
- Saga (bush cricket) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Saga on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Saga (Orthoptera) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Proper noun edit
Saga
- Saga Prefecture (a prefecture in western Kyushu, Japan)
- The capital city of Saga Prefecture, Japan.
Translations edit
a prefecture in Japan
a city in Saga Prefecture
Etymology 2 edit
From saga or its etymon Old Norse saga.
Proper noun edit
Saga
- (rare) A unisex given name.
- 2007, Saga McOdongo, Deadly money maker
Etymology 3 edit
Borrowed from Tibetan ས་དགའ (sa dga').
Proper noun edit
Saga
- A county of Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
- 2003, Michele Martin, Music in the Sky: The Life, Art, and Teachings of the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje[1], Snow Lion Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 82:
- Previously, they had met a man from Saga county, not far from the Nepali border, who had given an interesting piece of information: from his place, he had seen people escaping over a mountain into Nepal.
- 2010, Jonathan Green, Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy, and Escape from Tibet[2], 1st edition (Politics), PublicAffairs, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 33:
- More likely than capture is death at the hands of Chinese border police. Killings like that of fifteen-year-old Yeshe Dundrub, shot at night in Saga County (Ch: Saga Xian) in November 1999, while fleeing with forty others to Nepal, are covered up when possible. (Dundrub, whose dream was to be a monk, died in a military hospital bed nine hours after he was shot.)
Translations edit
county
Further reading edit
- Saga at Google Ngram Viewer
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Saga”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[3], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2682, column 3
Anagrams edit
Icelandic edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Saga f
- a female given name
Declension edit
Swedish edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Proper noun edit
Saga c (genitive Sagas)
- a female given name derived from the Swedish noun saga, used since the 19th century