naga
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From an Australian Aboriginal language; cf. Wulna nākā (“dress, covering”)[1]
Noun edit
naga (plural nagas)
- (Australia) A loincloth.
- 1926 October 30, The Sydney Morning Herald:
- Boys and many of the men wear the naga, akin to bathing trunks […]
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter II, in Capricornia, page 22:
- […] a young lubra wearing nothing but a naga of paper-bark rose and came forward shyly.
- 2006, Message Stick, ABC1, Friday, 30 June, 2006
- PAUL RUNDLE: Backstage, they were just asking us, "Where are you from," and all that. And they were touching us and all that there, and I was just there with my little naga and, yeah. And plus we had no ochre, so we had to use sunscreen.
- 2008, Derrick Tomlinson, "Too white to be regarded as Aborigines: An historical analysis of policies for the protection of Aborigines and the assimilation of Aborigines of mixed descent, and the role of Chief Protectors of Aborigines in the formulation and implementation of those policies, in Western Australia from 1898 to 1940" (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)). University of Notre Dame Australia.
- They doesn’t dress like people doing the Law this time, walking in shirt and tie, they used to have naga and really truly paint up, real tribal way, you know?
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Sanskrit नाग (nāga, “serpent, snake”). Doublet of snake.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
naga (plural nagas)
- (Indian mythology) A member of a class of semi-divine creatures, often taking the form of a very large snake and associated with water.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 257:
- The five-coned towers form a quincunx, and their flanks are scooped into niches in each of which has been placed a smiling buddha shaded by a nine-headed naga like a big palm fan.
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References edit
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Bikol Central edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
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nagâ
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Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
nága
- (archaic) the narra tree (Pterocarpus indicus)
- Synonym: nara
Cebuano edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
naga (plural kanagahan)
- the narra tree (Pterocarpus indicus)
- the wood from this tree
Synonyms edit
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Verb edit
naga
- inflection of nagaan:
Anagrams edit
Iban edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Sanskrit नाग (nāgá, “large snake”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
naga
- dragon (mythical creature)
Icelandic edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
naga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative nagaði, supine nagað)
- (transitive, governs the accusative) to gnaw
Conjugation edit
infinitive (nafnháttur) |
að naga | ||||
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supine (sagnbót) |
nagað | ||||
present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar) |
nagandi | ||||
indicative (framsöguháttur) |
subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) | ||||
present (nútíð) |
ég naga | við nögum | present (nútíð) |
ég nagi | við nögum |
þú nagar | þið nagið | þú nagir | þið nagið | ||
hann, hún, það nagar | þeir, þær, þau naga | hann, hún, það nagi | þeir, þær, þau nagi | ||
past (þátíð) |
ég nagaði | við nöguðum | past (þátíð) |
ég nagaði | við nöguðum |
þú nagaðir | þið nöguðuð | þú nagaðir | þið nöguðuð | ||
hann, hún, það nagaði | þeir, þær, þau nöguðu | hann, hún, það nagaði | þeir, þær, þau nöguðu | ||
imperative (boðháttur) |
naga (þú) | nagið (þið) | |||
Forms with appended personal pronoun | |||||
nagaðu | nagiði * | ||||
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred. |
infinitive (nafnháttur) |
að nagast | ||||
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supine (sagnbót) |
nagast | ||||
present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar) |
nagandist ** ** the mediopassive present participle is extremely rare and normally not used; it is never used attributively or predicatively, only for explicatory subclauses | ||||
indicative (framsöguháttur) |
subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) | ||||
present (nútíð) |
ég nagast | við nögumst | present (nútíð) |
ég nagist | við nögumst |
þú nagast | þið nagist | þú nagist | þið nagist | ||
hann, hún, það nagast | þeir, þær, þau nagast | hann, hún, það nagist | þeir, þær, þau nagist | ||
past (þátíð) |
ég nagaðist | við nöguðumst | past (þátíð) |
ég nagaðist | við nöguðumst |
þú nagaðist | þið nöguðust | þú nagaðist | þið nöguðust | ||
hann, hún, það nagaðist | þeir, þær, þau nöguðust | hann, hún, það nagaðist | þeir, þær, þau nöguðust | ||
imperative (boðháttur) |
nagast (þú) | nagist (þið) | |||
Forms with appended personal pronoun | |||||
nagastu | nagisti * | ||||
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred. |
strong declension (sterk beyging) |
singular (eintala) | plural (fleirtala) | |||||
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masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) |
masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) | ||
nominative (nefnifall) |
nagaður | nöguð | nagað | nagaðir | nagaðar | nöguð | |
accusative (þolfall) |
nagaðan | nagaða | nagað | nagaða | nagaðar | nöguð | |
dative (þágufall) |
nöguðum | nagaðri | nöguðu | nöguðum | nöguðum | nöguðum | |
genitive (eignarfall) |
nagaðs | nagaðrar | nagaðs | nagaðra | nagaðra | nagaðra | |
weak declension (veik beyging) |
singular (eintala) | plural (fleirtala) | |||||
masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) |
masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) | ||
nominative (nefnifall) |
nagaði | nagaða | nagaða | nöguðu | nöguðu | nöguðu | |
accusative (þolfall) |
nagaða | nöguðu | nagaða | nöguðu | nöguðu | nöguðu | |
dative (þágufall) |
nagaða | nöguðu | nagaða | nöguðu | nöguðu | nöguðu | |
genitive (eignarfall) |
nagaða | nöguðu | nagaða | nöguðu | nöguðu | nöguðu |
Derived terms edit
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Malay naga, from Sanskrit नाग (nāgá, “large snake”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
naga (plural naga-naga, first-person possessive nagaku, second-person possessive nagamu, third-person possessive naganya)
- dragon (mythical creature)
Further reading edit
- “naga” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Sanskrit नाग (nāga, “snake”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *nāgás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *nāgás, derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neg- (“to crawl”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
naga m (invariable)
- (Buddhist art) a representation of a human torso with a serpentine body
Further reading edit
- naga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Javanese edit
Romanization edit
naga
- Romanization of ꦤꦒ
Laboya edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
naga
References edit
- Allahverdi Verdizade (2019) “naga”, in Lamboya word list[1], Leiden: LexiRumah
Lower Sorbian edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
naga
Maia edit
Noun edit
naga
Malay edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Sanskrit नाग (nāgá, “large snake”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /naɡə/
- (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /naɡa/
- Rhymes: -aɡə, -ɡə, -ə
- Rhymes: -a
Noun edit
naga (Jawi spelling ناݢ, plural naga-naga, informal 1st possessive nagaku, 2nd possessive nagamu, 3rd possessive naganya)
- dragon (mythical creature)
Further reading edit
- “naga” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Maranao edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Sanskrit नाग (nāgá, “large snake”).
Noun edit
naga
References edit
- A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya
Murui Huitoto edit
Pronunciation edit
Determiner edit
naga
References edit
- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 154
- Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)[3] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 184
Mwotlap edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
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naga
- Determinate form of ga (“kava”)
References edit
- François, Alexandre. 2024. Online Mwotlap–English–French cultural dictionary. Electronic files. Paris: CNRS. (Pdf version) – entry ga.
Northern Kurdish edit
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
naga (Arabic spelling ناگا)
References edit
- Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “naga”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 2), volume 2, London: Transnational Press, page 52
Northern Sotho edit
Noun edit
naga
Old Javanese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Sanskrit नग (naga, “mountain”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
naga
Further reading edit
- "naga" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
naga
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: na‧ga
Noun edit
naga f (plural nagas)
- (Indian mythology) naga (semi-divine creature taking the form of a giant snake)
Related terms edit
Tagalog edit
Etymology 1 edit
Ultimately from Sanskrit नाग (nāgá, “large snake”). Compare Kapampangan naga, Maranao naga, and Malay naga.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
naga (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜄ)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *naʀah. Doublet of nara.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
naga (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜄ)
Further reading edit
- “naga”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves[4] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.[5] (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
- San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero[6], La Noble Villa de Pila, page 129: “Cabeça) Naga (pp) de ſierpe en [la proa] del navio”
Yakan edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately borrowed from Sanskrit नाग (nāgá, “large snake”).
Noun edit
naga