luggage

English

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Etymology

1590s, lug (“drag”) +‎ -age (“(noun)”) – literally “that which is lugged, dragged around”. Duplicate -g- is to clarify pronunciation of the vowel ‘u’ (which is pronounced unchanged from lug). Compare baggage.

Pronunciation

• enPR: lŭg'ĭj, IPA: /ˈlʌɡɪdʒ/, X-SAMPA: /"lVgIdZ/

Noun

luggage (uncountable)

1. The bags and other containers that hold a traveller's belongings.
2. The contents of such containers.

Synonyms

• baggage

Derived terms

• hold luggage
• cabin luggage
• hand luggage

Translations

traveller's containers

• Albanian: bagazh (sq)
• Arabic: أمتعة (ar) ('amti3a) f
• Armenian: ուղեբեռ (hy) (ułebeṙ) 
• Catalan: equipatge (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 行李 (cmn) (xíngli), 箱籠 (cmn), 箱笼 (cmn) (xiānglǒng)

• Crimean Tatar: bagaj
• Czech: zavazadla (cs) n pl
• Dutch: bagage (nl) m
• Finnish: matkatavarat (fi)
• French: bagage (fr) m
• German: Gepäck (de) n, Reisegepäck (de) n
• Hindi: सामान (hi) (sāmān) m
• Hungarian: poggyász (hu), csomag (hu)
• Italian: bagaglio (it) m
• Japanese: 荷物 (ja) (にもつ, nimotsu), 手荷物 (ja) (てにもつ, tenimotsu)
• Korean: 수하물 (ko) (suhamul)
• Luhya: kumzigo
• Macedonian: багаж (mk) (bagáž) m, патни торби (mk) (pátni tórbi) f pl

• Polish: bagaż (pl) m
• Portuguese: bagagem (pt) f
• Romanian: bagaj (ro) n
• Russian: багаж (ru) (bagáž) m 
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese Sardinian: bagalliu, strexu

  Gallurese Sardinian: bagagliu

  Logudorese Sardinian: badàlcu, badalculu, bagalliu, bagagliu

• Serbo-Croatian: prtljag (sh) m
• Slovene: prtljaga (sl) f
• Spanish: equipaje (es) m
• Swahili: mzigo (sw)
• Swedish: bagage (sv) c
• Telugu: సామాను (te) (saamaanu)
• Turkish: Bagaj (tr)
• Ukrainian: багаж (uk) (baháž) m 
• Urdu: سامان (ur) (sāmān) m
• Vietnamese: hành lý (vi) (行李 (vi))

Trivia

Samuel Johnson acerbically defines luggage as “any thing of more weight than value”.