nāga
English edit
Noun edit
nāga (plural nāgas)
- (scholarly) Alternative spelling of naga
Anagrams edit
Old Javanese edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Sanskrit नाग (nāga, “naga”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)nog-ó-s (with *a regularly lengthened by Brugmann's law), from *(s)neg- (“to crawl; a creeping thing”).
Noun edit
nāga
- naga, serpent-demon.
- one of the five airs of the human body (which is expelled by eructation).
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Sanskrit नाग (nāga, “elephant”), from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“naked”), i.e. “the hairless one”.
Noun edit
nāga
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- "nāga" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.
Pali edit
Alternative forms edit
Alternative forms
Etymology edit
Noun edit
nāga m[1]
- serpent
- cobra
- naga, dragon
- elephant
- 2006, The First Book in the Suttanta-Pitaka: Dīgha-Nikāya (I)[1], page 88:
- 11. අථ ඛො රාජා මාගධො අජාතසත්තු වෙදෙහිපුත්තො යාවතිකා නාගස්ස භූමි නාගෙන ගන්ත්වා නාගා පච්චොරොහිත්වා පත්තිකො ‘ව යෙන මණ්ඩලමාළස්ස ද්වාරං තෙනුපසඞ්කමි.
- 11. atha kho rājā māgadho ajātasattu vedehiputto yāvatikā nāgassa bhūmi nāgena gantvā nāgā paccorohitvā pattiko ’va yena maṇḍalamāḷassa dvāraṃ tenupasaṅkami.
- 11. And then indeed the king of Magadha, Ajatashatru, son of the woman from Videha, went by elephant as far as there was room for an elephant, then dismounted from the elephant, and then went on only on foot to where the door of the pavilion was.
- ironwood tree
- chief
Declension edit
Declension table of "nāga" (masculine)
Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative (first) | nāgo | nāgā |
Accusative (second) | nāgaṃ | nāge |
Instrumental (third) | nāgena | nāgehi or nāgebhi |
Dative (fourth) | nāgassa or nāgāya or nāgatthaṃ | nāgānaṃ |
Ablative (fifth) | nāgasmā or nāgamhā or nāgā | nāgehi or nāgebhi |
Genitive (sixth) | nāgassa | nāgānaṃ |
Locative (seventh) | nāgasmiṃ or nāgamhi or nāge | nāgesu |
Vocative (calling) | nāga | nāgā |
References edit
- ^ Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875, page 255.