dag

See also DAG, Dag, dağ, and Dağ

Translingual

Symbol

dag

1. (metrology) Symbol for the decagram, an SI unit of mass equal to 10¹ grams.

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dæɡ/
• Rhymes: -æɡ

Etymology 1

From Old English dagge, of uncertain (probably Germanic) origin, cognate with (Middle) Dutch dag, dagge, dagh.

Noun

dag (plural dags)

1. A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground.

Etymology 2

From daglock or daggle-lock.

Noun

dag (plural dags)

1. A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
   • Wedgwood

     Daglocks, clotted locks hanging in dags or jags at a sheep's tail.

   • 1998, Wool: Volume 8, Issue 10, as published by the Massey Wool Association:

     He was one of the first significant private buyers of wool in New Zealand, playing a major part in bringing respectability to what at first was a very diverse group. He pioneered the pelletising of dag waste.

   • 1999, G. C. Waghorn, N. G. Gregory, S. E. Todd, and R. Wesselink, Dags in sheep; a look at faeces and reasons for dag formation, published in the Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association 61, on pages 43–49:

     The development of dags first requires some faeces to adhere to wool, but this is only the initial step in accumulation.

   • 2004, Mette Vaarst, Animal health and welfare in organic agriculture, page 323:

     [...] and the use of tanniferous forages may affect faecal consistency, reducing the formation of dag (faeces-coated wool).

   • 2006, in the compilation of the Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture, volume 46, issues 1-5, published by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Australia), on page 7:

     [Researchers] note that free pellets are characteristic of healthy sheep and that if sheep consistently produced free pellets, wool staining and dag formation would not occur.

Synonyms

• daglock, taglock
• daggings
• dung tag
  • 1989, Paula Simmons, Raising Sheep the Modern Way, revised edition, Storey Communications Inc., Pownal Vermont, page 212

    Remove dung tags, and do not tie them in with the fleece.

Derived terms

• daggy

Verb

dag (third-person singular simple present dags, present participle dagging, simple past and past participle dagged)

1. To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation.
   • 2007, Graeme R. Quick, Remarkable Australian Farm Machines: Ingenuity on the Land,

     Blade shearers could shear, crutch, mules or dag sheep anywhere they were needed.

   • 2010 January 29, Emma Partridge, Stock Journal, Richie Foster a cut above the rest,

     After learning how to crutch at 13, he could dag 400 sheep in a day by the spring of 1965 and earned himself more than just a bit of pocket money.

2. To daggle or bemire.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

Etymology 3

From Old French dague (from Old Provençal dague, of uncertain origin, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *daca (“Dacian knife”), from the Roman province Dacia (roughly modern Romania); the ending is possibly the faintly pejorative -ard suffix, as in poignard 'dagger'); cognate with dagger.

Noun

dag (plural dags)

1. A skewer.
2. A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.

Verb

dag (third-person singular simple present dags, present participle dagging, simple past and past participle dagged)

1. (transitive) To skewer food, for roasting over a fire
2. (transitive) To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags

Etymology 4

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Interjection

dag

1. (US, informal) Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier.

Etymology 5

Back-formation from daggy.

Noun

dag (plural dags)

1. (Australia slang, New Zealand derogatory slang) One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance.
   • 2004 July 25, Debbie Kruger, Melbourne Weekly Magazine, All the World's a Stage,

     Now, wide-eyed and unfashionably excited ("I’m such a dag!" she remarks several times), she has the leading role of Viola in the Bell Shakespeare Company’s production of Twelfth Night, opening on August 10 at the Victorian Arts Centre Playhouse.

   • 2006 September 26, TV Week, Klancie Keough eliminated,

     What did you think about Mark calling you a dag?

     To me a dag is a person who doesn't have a lot of pride in their appearance or the way they present themselves — the way they sing and how they hold themselves basically. But it didn't really bother me. He said, "You're such a dag, you're cool." I took it as "you're a laidback person". The way they cut it and edited it made it sound on TV like I was grumpy about it, but I wasn't. It was pretty funny how it came across.

   • 2009 November 14, Daily Telegraph, Catherine Zeta - Hollywood's biggest dag?,

     SHE is one of Hollywood's most beautiful leading ladies and has access to any fashion designers, so then why is Catherine Zeta-Jones dressing like a bag lady?

   • 2010 January 15, Michael Dwyer, The Age, Talented dag plucks up the cool,

     A graduate of film studies in New York, May has had a hand in editing two of his three videos. Each casts him as a bespectacled dag in a world of glamour.

Related terms

• daggy (adj)

Synonyms

• dork, loser, nerd

Usage notes

• May be used as form of endearment, perhaps with the intention of indicating fellowship or sympathy with regard to apparent rejection of societal norms.

Etymology 6

Initialism for directed acyclic graph.

Noun

dag (plural dags)

1. (graph theory) A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair $(V, E)$ such that $E$ is a subset of some partial ordering relation on $V$.

Etymology 7

Verb

dag (third-person singular simple present dags, present participle dagging, simple past and past participle dagged)

1. (UK, dialect) To be misty; to drizzle.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Anagrams

• GAD, Gad, gad, GDA

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Afrikaans

Etymology 1

Germanic: from Dutch dag (“day”), cognate with German Tag.

Noun

dag (plural dae, diminutive daggie, diminutive plural daggies)

1. a day

Etymology 2

Germanic: from Dutch goedendag (“goodday; goodbye”) (from [goed (“goed, pleasant”) + dag (“day”)), see above.

Interjection

dag

1. hello!
2. bye-bye!

Etymology 3

Germanic: from Dutch gedachte (“thought”), from gedacht, the past participle of denken (“to think”).

Verb

dag (past participle gedag)

1. to think, ponder
2. to consider

Related terms

• gedagte
• dink

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse dagr, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz (“day”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: dæː
• Rhymes: -æː

Noun

dag c (singular definite dagen, plural indefinite dage)

1. day

Inflection

    Inflection of dag

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	dag	dagen	dage	dagene
genitive	dags	dagens	dages	dagenes

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑx
• (Belgium) IPA: /dɑç/
• (Netherlands) IPA: /dɑx/

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Etymology 1

From Old Dutch dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn, to be illuminated”). Cognate with German Tag, West Frisian dei, English day, Danish dag.

Noun

dag m, f (plural dagen, diminutive dagje or daagje)

1. A day (notably 24 hours, especially between the midnights)
2. (absolute use, definite article only: de dag) The period of time between sunrise and sunset, daytime.

Synonyms

• (24 hours) etmaal n

Derived terms

Bevrijdingsdag m dageraad m daglicht n goedendag m herdenkingsdag m Koninginnedag m Koningsdag m rouwdag m sterfdag m vandaag de dag verjaardag m

Interjection

dag!

1. hello, short for goedendag (“good day”) 'goodday; goodbye'
2. goodbye, same shortening

Synonyms

• (bye): daag, ciao, salut (French), saluut (Flemish), saluutjes (Flemish), vaarwel, tot ziens, tot hoors, tot horens, doei (Netherlands), doeg (Netherlands)
• (hello): hallo, hoi, heei/hey, goedendag/goeiendag, jow (familiar, Flemish), hoi (Netherlands)

Etymology 2

Germanic, cognate with English dag 'hanging end, shred'.

Alternative forms

• dagge, dagh (all obsolete)

Noun

dag f (plural daggen, diminutive dagje)

1. A piece of rope, used to punish sailors with, on the spot or in running the gauntlet
2. A line used to fasten young sailors while training boarding a hostile ship or climbing the rigging

Synonyms

• (punitive rope) dagtouwtje n

Derived terms

• handdag

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Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tɛaː/

Noun

dag

1. accusative singular form of dagur

Derived terms

• góðan dag!

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Gothic

Romanization

dag

1. See 𐌳𐌰𐌲

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch dag, from goedendag 'goodday'.

Interjection

dag

1. hello

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Lojban

Rafsi

dag

1. rafsi of dargu.

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Middle Low German

Alternative forms

• dach (more common spelling marking pronunciation rather than morphology)

Etymology

From Old Saxon dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dʌx/

Noun

dag m (genitive dages, dative dage, accusative dag, plural dage)

1. day

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Norwegian

Etymology

From Old Norse dagr, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn, to be illuminated”).

Noun

dag m

1. A day
2. The period of time between sunrise and sunset, daytime

Inflection

    Inflection of dag

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	dag	dagen	dager	dagene
Nynorsk m	dag	dagen	dagar	dagane

References

• “dag” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.

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Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn, to be illuminated”).

Noun

dag m

1. day

Declension

Declension of dag

	Singular	Plural
nominative	dag	daga
accusative	dag	daga
genitive	dagis	dago
dative	dage	dagon

Descendants

• Dutch: dag

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Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dagaz, whence also Old English dæġ, Old Dutch dag, Old High German tag, Old Frisian dei, Old Norse dagr. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn, to be illuminated”).

Noun

dag m

1. day

Declension

Declension of dag

	Singular	Plural
nominative	dag	dagōs
accusative	dag	dagōs
genitive	dages	dagō
dative	dage	dagum

Descendants

• Low German: Dag

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse dagr, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn, to be illuminated”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: dɑː(g)

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Noun

dag c

1. a day
2. a day, the period of time between sunrise and sunset, daytime

Declension

Declension of dag

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	dag	dagen	dagar	dagarna
genitive	dags	dagens	dagars	dagarnas

Related terms

alla helgons dag allhelgonadag annandag arbetsdag avflyttningsdag avresedag barnens dag bäst före-dag Dag daga dagakarl dagarvode dagas dagavdelning dagbarn dagbefäl dagblad dagbok dagbrott dagbrytning dagbräckning dagcenter dagcentral dagcentrum dagdrivare dagdriveri dagdröm dagdrömma dagdrömmare dagdrömmeri dagen-efter-piller dagen-efter-stämning dager dagersättning dagfjäril dagförbindelse daghem daghotell dagis dagjämning dagkirurgi dagkirurgisk

dagledig daglig dagligen dagligvara daglilja daglinne daglön daglönare dagmamma dagning dagofficer dagorder dagordning dagort dagpappa dagpatient dagpenning dagpersonal dagrapport dagresa dagrum dags dagsaktualiteter dagsaktuell dagsarbete dagsbehov dagsbot dagsedel dagsens dagsetapp dagsform dagsfärsk dagsförtjänst dagsgammal dagsgenomsnitt dagshändelser dagsinkomst dagsjukvård dagskassa dagskift dagsklar dagskonsumtion dagskrönika dagskurs

dagsled dagsljus dagslång dagsläge dagslända dagslön dagsmarsch dagsmeja dagsnotering dagsnyheter dagspenning dagspolitik dagspolitisk dagspress dagspris dagsprogram dagsranson dagsregn dagsresa dagsrutin dagsschema dagssituation dagstemperatur dagstidning dagstur dagsutflykt dagsverkare dagsverke dagsvers dagsvärde dagsvärme dagtaxa dagteckna dagtid dagtinga dagtingan dagtraktamente dagtåg dagvatten dagvill dagvisa dagvård dagöppning dygn dödsdag

festdag fredag fridag födelsedag förbrukningsdag goddag gårdag helgdag högtidsdag höstdag i dag idag jubileumsdag juldag kalenderdag lördag marknadsdag mellandag menlösa barns dag morgondag måndag namnsdag onsdag pingstdag påskdag regnvädersdag resdag skoldag skottdag sommardag söckendag söndag tisdag tjugondag torsdag trettondag tävlingsdag vardag vilodag vinterdag vårdag

References

• dag in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

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Turkmen

Etymology

From Old Turkic tag, from Proto-Turkic *tāg, *dāg (“mountain”).

Noun

dag

1. mountain

Declension

    declension of dag

	singular	plural
nominative	dag	daglar
accusative	dagy	daglary
genitive	dagyň	daglaryň
dative	daga	daglara
locative	dagda	daglarda
ablative	dagdan	daglardan