daga

See also: Appendix:Variations of "daga"

Bikol Central

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish daga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɡa/ [ˈd̪a.ɡa]
• Hyphenation: da‧ga

Noun

dága (Basahan spelling ᜇᜄ)

1. dagger
2. knife

   Synonym: kutsilyo

See also

• balisong
• gata
• lanseta
• palas
• sanggot
• sundang
• tabak

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *daʀəq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daˈɡaʔ/ [d̪aˈɡaʔ]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: daga

Noun

dagâ (Basahan spelling ᜇᜄ)

1. soil; earth
2. land, property

   Synonym: solar

Derived terms

• dagaan
• magdaga

Butuanon

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dadaʀa (“maiden; virgin; unmarried girl”).

Noun

daga

1. woman; female

Catalan

Etymology

Likely borrowed from Italian daga, of disputed origin, possibly from a Vulgar Latin *daca (see there for further information). Compare also German Degen, Old Norse dage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈda.ɣə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈda.ɣa]

Noun

daga f (plural dagues)

1. dagger

   Synonym: punyal

Derived terms

• daguer

References

• “daga” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cinamiguin Manobo

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dadaʀa (“maiden; virgin; unmarried girl”).

Noun

daga

1. maiden; woman

Dibabawon Manobo

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dadaʀa (“maiden; virgin; unmarried girl”).

Noun

daga

1. unmarried woman

Gothic

Romanization

daga

1. romanization of 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐌰

Hausa

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dá.ɡáː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [də́.ɡáː]

Noun

dagā f (plural dagā̀gē, possessed form dagar̃)

1. bangle-charm (worn on the upper arm or wrist)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dáː.ɡáː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [dáː.ɡáː]

Noun

dāgā f (possessed form dāgar̃)

1. struggle, battle

Hiligaynon

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish daga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɡa/ [ˈda.ɡa]
• Hyphenation: da‧ga

Noun

dága

1. dagger, stiletto

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *daʀəq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɡaʔ/ [ˈda.ɡaʔ]
• Hyphenation: da‧ga

Noun

dagà

1. clay, soil
2. sacrifice, specifically human sacrifice

Etymology 3

Unknown

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daˈɡaʔ/ [daˈɡaʔ]
• Hyphenation: da‧ga

Noun

dagâ

1. victim of sacrifice, sacrifice

Icelandic

Noun

daga

1. inflection of dagur:
   1. indefinite accusative plural
   2. indefinite genitive plural

Ilocano

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *daʀəq, compare Bikol Central daga & Tetum rai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daˈɡa/ [dɐˈɡa]
• Hyphenation: da‧gá

Noun

dagá

1. land; soil; earth

Derived terms

• dumaga
• kadagaan
• maipadaga

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish daga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɡa/ [ˈdɐ.ɡa]
• Hyphenation: da‧ga

Noun

daga

1. dagger

Derived terms

• agdaga

Italian

Etymology

From earlier *daca, possibly via a Celtic source from Vulgar Latin *daca, used to refer to knives from the Roman province of Dacia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Hyphenation: dà‧ga

Noun

daga f (plural daghe)

1. dagger
2. (weaponry) a stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade

Derived terms

• daghetta

Descendants

• → Old Catalan: daga, daiga
  • Catalan: daga
• → Old Occitan: daga
  • Occitan: daga
  • → Old French: dague
    • French: dague
    • → English: dagger
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: daga
  • ⇒ Portuguese: adaga
• → Spanish: daga

Further reading

• daga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• daga in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa

Japanese

Romanization

daga

1. Rōmaji transcription of だが

Kankanaey

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀat (“littoral sea”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɡa/ [ˈdaː.ɡʌ]
• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Syllabification: da‧ga

Noun

daga

1. sea

Karao

Noun

daga

1. ritual performed for a sick person

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈtaka/

Verb

daga

1. inflection of dahkat:
   1. present indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. imperative connegative

Ojibwe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daˈɡa/

Particle

daga

1. please, by all means, come on, well

Related terms

• da

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɑ.ɡɑ/, [ˈdɑ.ɣɑ]

Noun

daga

1. genitive plural of dæġ

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps a borrowing from Italian daga, or directly from its etymon, Vulgar Latin *daca, thought to derive from the feminine of Dācus (“Dacian”), as in arma Dāca (“Dacian weapon”), referring to the weapon’s origins in Dacia. Cognate with Old Occitan daga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -aɡa

Noun

daga f (plural dagas)

1. dagger (a type of knife)
   • a. 1460, Fernão Lopes, “Como elRey dom pedro ſahio de mõtel ⁊ como foi moꝛto ⁊ ẽ q̃ lugar [How the King Dom Pedro left Montel and how he was killed and where]” (chapter 23), in Cronica del℞i dom ffernando nono ℞y de poꝛtugal [Tale of the King Dom Fernando, ninth King of Portugal]‎^[3], manuscript, page 56r, column 1:

     […] eſtonçe o conheçeo melhoꝛ el Rei dom henrrique ⁊ lhe deu con hũa daga pello roſtro ⁊ o dirribou em terra ferindoo doutras feridas foi morto aaq̃lla hoꝛa.

     […] then the King Dom Henrique recognized him and put a dagger through his face and felled him to the ground; suffering from other wounds, he died then.

Descendants

• Galician: daga
• Portuguese: daga (obsolete), adaga

Further reading

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “daga”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2025), “daga”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dagāną.

Verb

daga

1. (impersonal, intransitive) to dawn (become day)

Conjugation

Conjugation of daga — impersonal, active (weak class 2)

infinitive	daga
past participle	dagaðr
	indicative			subjunctive
	present	past		present	past
3rd-person singular	dagar	dagaði		dagi	dagaði

Derived terms

• dagan f (“dawn, daybreak”)

Related terms

• dagr m (“day”)

Descendants

• Icelandic: daga
• Faroese: daga
• Norwegian: dage
• Swedish: daga, Swedish: dagas
• Danish: dage

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “daga”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Old Occitan

Etymology

Vulgar Latin *daca.

Noun

daga f (oblique plural dagas, nominative singular daga, nominative plural dagas)

1. dagger (weapon)

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*daca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 1

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈda.ɡɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈda.ɡɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈda.ɡa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈda.ɡɐ/ [ˈda.ɣɐ]

Noun

daga f (plural dagas)

1. obsolete form of adaga (“dagger”) [until 16th c.]
   • 1569, Duarte Nunez do Liam, Leis extravagantes collegidas e relatadas pelo licenciado Duarte Nunez do Liam […] [Extravagant laws collected and reported by the licensed Duarte Nunez do Liam […] ]‎^[4], fourth part, title II, law VI, Lisbon: Antonio Gonçalvez, page 118r:

     Ordenou o dito ſenhor, que os guardas da caſa da India & Mina podeſſem […] trazer armas defenſiuas & offenſiuas […]. As quaes trarião honeſtamente cubertas: & aſsi ſpada & punhal ou daga […].

     The sire also ordered that the guards of the Casa da Índia could […] bring defensive and offensive weapons […]. Which they would bring honestly covered: and as such swords and poniards or daggers […].

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From English dag (“dagger; pistol”), itself from Old French dague.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪̊akə/

Noun

daga m (genitive singular daga, plural dagaichean)

1. pistol

Derived terms

• daga-cuairt

Mutation

Mutation of daga

radical	lenition
daga	dhaga

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Soninke

Verb

daga

1. to go, leave

   N wa dagana Pari

   I will go to Paris

2. to be right
3. (Auxiliary) marks embarcative aspect

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɡa/ [ˈd̪a.ɣ̞a]

• Audio (Venezuela):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Syllabification: da‧ga

Noun

daga f (plural dagas)

1. dagger

   Synonym: puñal

Derived terms

• daga española

Further reading

• “daga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Swedish

Noun

daga

1. only used in ta av daga

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Compare Cebuano ilaga and Kapampangan dagis.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /daˈɡaʔ/ [d̪ɐˈɣaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: da‧ga

Noun

dagâ (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜄ)

1. mouse; rat

   Synonym: (euphemistic) mabait

Alternative forms

• raga — dialectal, Rizal, informal

Derived terms

• daga-dagaan
• dagain
• dagang-bahay
• dagang-bukid
• dagang-bundok
• dagang-dingding
• dagang-gililan
• dagang-kosta
• dagang-parang
• dagang-puti
• dagang-taingahan
• Ilaw-Daga
• madaga
• panghuli ng daga
• taingang-daga
• Tanglaw-Daga

See also

• bubuwit

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish daga.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɡa/ [ˈd̪aː.ɣɐ]
• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Syllabification: da‧ga

Noun

daga (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜄ)

1. dagger

   Synonyms: balaraw, patalim, punyal

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɡa/ [ˈd̪aː.ɣɐ]
• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Syllabification: da‧ga

Noun

daga (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜄ)

1. aunt

   Synonyms: tiya, tita

2. stepmother

   Synonyms: madrastra, inang-panguman

Further reading

• “daga”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018.

Anagrams

• agad

Yogad

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daʀaq.

Noun

dagá

1. blood