Saga

See also: Appendix:Variations of "saga"

Translingual

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Saga f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Tettigoniidae – certain bush crickets.

Hypernyms

• (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

• (genus): Saga pedo (predatory bush cricket, spiked magician) - type species; Saga hellenica - selected species

References

• Saga (bush cricket) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Saga on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Saga (Orthoptera) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

Etymology 1

From Japanese 佐賀 (Saga).

Proper noun

Saga

1. Saga Prefecture (a prefecture in western Kyushu, Japan)
2. The capital city of Saga Prefecture, Japan.

Translations

a prefecture in Japan

• Arabic: سَاغَا f (sāḡā)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 佐賀／佐贺 (Zuǒhè)

• Czech: Saga (cs) f
• Japanese: 佐賀県 (ja) (Saga-ken), 佐賀 (ja) (Saga)
• Korean: 사가 (ko) (Saga)
• Marathi: सागा (sāgā)
• Russian: Са́га (ru) f (Sága)

a city in Saga Prefecture

• Arabic: سَاغَا f (sāḡā)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 佐賀／佐贺 (Zuǒhè)

• Czech: Saga (cs) f
• Japanese: 佐賀市 (ja) (さがし, Saga-shi), 佐賀 (ja) (さが, Saga)
• Korean: 사가 (ko) (Saga)
• Marathi: सागा (sāgā)
• Russian: Са́га (ru) f (Sága)

Etymology 2

From saga or its etymon Old Norse saga.

Proper noun

Saga

1. (rare) A unisex given name.

   Saga Becker

   • 2007, Saga McOdongo, Deadly money maker

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Tibetan ས་དགའ (sa dga').

Proper noun

Saga

1. 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

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 薩嘎／萨嘎 (zh) (Sàgā)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• 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

• AGAs, Agas, GAAs, agas, saag

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaːɣa/
• Rhymes: -aːɣa
• Homophone: saga

Proper noun

Saga f

1. a female given name

Declension

declension of Saga

f-w1	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Saga
accusative	Sögu
dative	Sögu
genitive	Sögu

Swedish

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Saga c (genitive Sagas)

1. a female given name derived from the Swedish noun saga, used since the 19th century

Anagrams

• agas