sagan

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See also: Sagan, sag an, and saĝan

English

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Noun

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sagan (plural sagans)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Sagan
    • 1984 September 27, Jerry Boyajian, “re: Moriarty's long-awaited reviews”, in net.comics[1] (Usenet):
      Part of it was that I just couldn't deal with a piece of primal matter floating around for sagans of years, eroding away until it became a nice, shiny, sharp-as-William-F.-Buckley's-tongue sword, with the old familiar "S" symbol coincidentally engraved on its hilt.
    • 1989, Edward S. Hudson, Alien Death Fleet, Pageant Books, published 1989, →ISBN, page 5:
      "There must be a sagan of them up there."
    • 1998 January, Jon Luini, Allen Whitman, “Finding Your Geek”, in EQ, page 132:
      There are sagans of other planets crying out for this knowledge.
    • 2001 October 24, Joe \"Nuke Me Xemu\" Foster, “Re: Randomly write data to a file”, in comp.lang.basic.visual.misc[2] (Usenet):
      The Jet and xBase database engines have been pounded on by who knows how many developers and end-users for years, which amounts to sagans and sagans of hours of real-world testing!

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Icelandic

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Noun

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sagan f

  1. definite nominative singular of saga

Old Norse

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Noun

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sagan

  1. nominative singular definite of saga

Polish

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sagan

Etymology

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Perhaps from Russian сагáн (sagán) or Ukrainian сагáн (sahán), from Turkish sagan, from Arabic.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsa.ɡan/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɡan
  • Syllabification: sa‧gan
  • Homophone: Sagan

Noun

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sagan m inan

  1. (dated) large copper or iron vessel used to boil water or food
  2. (colloquial, humorous) head
  3. (Kraków) kettle

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Further reading

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  • sagan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • sagan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

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Noun

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sagan

  1. definite singular of saga

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