bagage

See also: Bagage

Danish

Etymology

From French bagage (“baggage, luggage”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baɡaːsjə/, [b̥aˈɡ̊æːɕə]

Noun

bagage c (singular definite bagagen, not used in plural form)

1. baggage; luggage

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French bagage. First attested in the 16th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbaːˈɣaː.ʒə/

• bagage:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ba‧ga‧ge
• Rhymes: -aːʒə

Noun

bagage f (uncountable)

1. baggage; luggage

   Synonyms: bepakking, pakkage

2. (figuratively) load, a person's relevant (especially hindering) background

Derived terms

• bagagedrager
• bagagist
• handbagage

Descendants

• Afrikaans: bagasie
• → Dutch Low Saxon: begazie, pakkazie
• → Malay: bagasi
  • Indonesian: bagasi

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French

Etymology

Either from Late Latin *baga (“a vessel type”), or from Old French bague (“pack, bundle”), ultimately from the Scandinavian source (Old Norse baggi) that yielded English bag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.ɡaʒ/

• audio:

  (file)

Noun

bagage m (plural bagages)

1. baggage; luggage

Derived terms

• bagagiste m

Descendants

• → Afrikaans: bagasie
• → Azerbaijani: baqaj
• → Albanian: bagazh
• → Bavarian: Bagasch
• → Belarusian: багаж (bahaž)
• → Bengali: ব্যাগেজ (bêgej)
• → Bulgarian: багаж (bagaž)
• → Catalan: bagatge
• → Crimean Tatar: bagaj
• → Danish: bagage
• → Estonian: pagas
• → German: Bagage
• → Galician: bagaxe
• → Gallurese: bagagliu
• → Haitian Creole: bagay
• → Italian: bagaglio
• → Kazakh: багаж (bagaj)
• → Kyrgyz: багаж (bagaj)
• → Ladino: bagaje
• → Latvian: bagāža
• → Lithuanian: bagažas
• → Macedonian: багаж (bagaž)
• → Moroccan Arabic: بكاج (bakāž)
• → North Frisian: bagoosch
• → Norwegian: bagasje
• → Polish: bagaż
• → Portuguese: bagagem
• → Romanian: bagaj
• → Russian: багаж (bagaž)
• → Sardinian:

  Campidanese: bagalliu

  Logudorese: badàlcu, badalculu, bagalliu, bagagliu

• → Spanish: bagaje
  • → Tagalog: bagahe
• → Swedish: bagage
• → Turkish: bagaj
• → Turkmen: bagaž
• → Ukrainian: багаж (bahaž)
• → Uzbek: bagaj
• → West Frisian: bagaazje
• → Yiddish: באַגאַזש (bagazh)

Further reading

• “bagage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle English

Etymology

Borrowing from Old French bagage, compare Old French bague.

Noun

bagage (plural bagages)

1. baggage; luggage

Related terms

• bagge (“bag”)

Descendants

• English: baggage
• Scots: baggage

See also

• bælg, belg

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Middle French

Alternative forms

• bagaige, baguage, baguaige

Etymology

Old French bagage.

Noun

bagage m (plural bagages)

1. baggage (luggage; that which one transports with one)
   • 1552, Rabelais, Le Tiers Livre des Faits et Dicts Héroïques du bon Pantagruel

     De butiner et robber le baguaige

     To plunder and rob the baggages

Usage notes

• Often used uncountably where English would use the plural baggages. See citation above.

Descendants

• French: bagage (see there for further descendants)
• → Dutch: bagage
  • Afrikaans: bagasie
  • → Dutch Low Saxon: begazie, pakkazie
  • → Malay: bagasi
    • Indonesian: bagasi

References

• bagage on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

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Old French

Etymology

From bague +‎ -age, ultimately from Old Norse baggi.

Noun

bagage oblique singular, m (oblique plural bagages, nominative singular bagages, nominative plural bagage)

1. baggage (luggage; that which one transports with one)

Related terms

• bague

Descendants

• Middle French: bagage, bagaige, baguage, baguaige
  • French: bagage (see there for further descendants)
  • → Dutch: bagage
    • Afrikaans: bagasie
    • → Dutch Low Saxon: begazie, pakkazie
    • → Malay: bagasi
      • Indonesian: bagasi
• → Middle English: bagage
  • English: baggage
  • Scots: baggage

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (bagage, supplement)

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French bagage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈɡɑːɧ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

bagage n

1. baggage; luggage

Declension

Declension of bagage
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	bagage	bagaget	bagage	bagagen
Genitive	bagages	bagagets	bagages	bagagens