Dagon

See also: dagon and dag-on

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew דגון.

Proper noun

Dagon

1. The main god of the Phoenicians, represented as half man and half fish.
   • Bible, 1 Sam. v. 2

     They brought it into the house of Dagon.

   • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     This day a solemn feast the people hold / To Dagon, their sea idol.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:

     Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.

Translations

main god of the Phoenicians

• Arabic: دَجون
• Bulgarian: Дагон (Dagon), Даган (Dagan)
• Esperanto: Dagan, Dagon (eo)
• Georgian: დაგონი (dagoni)
• Greek:

  Ancient: Δαγών m (Dagṓn)

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• Hebrew: דגון
• Japanese: ダゴン
• Korean: 다곤 (dagon), 다간 (dagan)
• Malayalam: ദാഗൻ (dāgaṉ)
• Persian: داگون, داجون
• Russian: Дагон (Dagon)
• Turkish: Dagon (tr)

Anagrams

• Dogan, Gonda, dango, dogan, donga, goand, gonad