mage

See also: Mage, Magé, magë, and måge

English

Etymology

From Middle English mages (pluralia tantum), from Latin magus.

Pronunciation

• enPR: māj, IPA^(key): /meɪdʒ/
• Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

Noun

mage (plural magi or mages)

1. (fantasy) A magician, wizard or sorcerer.

Derived terms

• archmage

Translations

magician, wizard or sorcerer

• Arabic: ساحر‎ m, مجوس‎ m
• Catalan: mag (ca) m, màgic m, fetiller (ca) m
• Czech: mág (cs) m, čaroděj (cs) m, kouzelník (cs) m
• Danish: mager, magiker, troldmand
• Finnish: maagi (fi), velho (fi)
• German: Magier (de) m, Magierin (de) f, Zauberer (de) m, Zauberin (de) f, Zaubrer m, Zaubrerin f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: μάγος m (mágos)

• Hungarian: varázsló (hu), mágus (hu)
• Icelandic: galdramaður (is) m
• Ido: mago (io), magi (io)

• Italian: magio
• Latin: magus m, maga f
• Lithuanian: magas (lt) m
• Macedonian: маг m (mag)
• Persian: مجوسی‎ (fa) (majūsī)
• Polish: mag (pl) m, czarodziej (pl) m
• Portuguese: mago (pt) m, maga (pt) f
• Russian: маг (ru) m (mag), волхв (ru) m (volxv)
• Serbo-Croatian: čarobnjak (sh) m, mag (sh) m
• Slovene: mag m
• Swedish: trollkarl (sv) c, magiker (sv) c

Anagrams

• game, mega, mega-

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Afrikaans

Noun

mage

1. plural of maag

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Danish

Etymology 1

Adjective

mage

1. matching

Noun

mage c (singular definite magen, plural indefinite mager)

1. fellow (one of a pair, or of two things used together)
2. mate
3. husband, wife, spouse
4. match

Declension

Declension of mage

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mage	magen	mager	magerne
genitive	mages	magens	magers	magernes

Etymology 2

From Old Norse maka, from Middle Low German māken, from Old Saxon makōn, from Proto-Germanic *makōną.

Verb

mage (imperative mag, infinitive at mage, present tense mager, past tense magede, perfect tense har maget)

1. to arrange

Further reading

• “mage” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “mage” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

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Dutch Low Saxon

Etymology

From Old Saxon mago, from Proto-Germanic *magô. Cognate with Dutch maag (“stomach”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɒːɣə], IPA^(key): [mɔːɣə] (more on the merger of monophthongal A and O)

Noun

mage f (genitive magen, dative magen, accusative mage, plural magen)

1. stomach

Usage notes

• The plural form stays the same in every case.

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French

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑʒ

Noun

mage m (plural mages)

1. specialist in occult sciences foretelling the future

   Après une violente dispute avec son mari, elle consulte un mage qui lui prédit un sombre avenir.

2. (obsolete) magus: priest of the Zoroaster religion, with the Persians and the Medes.
3. wise man (one of the three wise men that came from the East to Bethlehem for Jesus Christ)

   L’adoration des mages.

Related terms

• magie
• roi mage

Further reading

• “mage” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• méga

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Friulian

Noun

mage ? (plural ?)

1. stomach

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Japanese

Romanization

mage

1. Rōmaji transcription of まげ

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Latin

Noun

mage

1. vocative singular of magus

References

• mage in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mage in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *mago, from Proto-Germanic *magô.

Noun

māge f or m

1. stomach

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: maag
  • Afrikaans: maag
  • → Indonesian: maag
• Limburgish: maag

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

mâge

1. inflection of mâech:
   1. dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative/dative plural

Further reading

• “maghe”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “mage (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

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Middle Low German

Etymology

From Old Saxon mago, from Proto-Germanic *magô. Cognate with German Magen (“stomach”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maːɣə/

Noun

māge f (genitive magen, dative magen, accusative mage, plural magen)

1. stomach

Usage notes

• The plural form stays the same in every case.

Synonyms

• lif (body, figurative for belly)
• buk (belly, abdomen)

Descendants

• Low German:
  • German Low German: Mage, Maag
  • Westphalian:

    Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Māge

    Sauerländisch: Māge

    Westmünsterländian: Maagen, Maage

• Plautdietsch: Moag

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• mave

Etymology

From Old Norse magi, from Proto-Germanic *magô.

Noun

mage m (definite singular magen, indefinite plural mager, definite plural magene)

1. abdomen, belly, stomach

Synonyms

• underliv

Derived terms

• magedans
• magedanser, magedanserinne
• magefølelse
• magekreft
• mageplask
• magesekk
• magesår

 

References

• “mage” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse magi, from Proto-Germanic *magô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²mɑːɡə/

Noun

mage m (definite singular magen, indefinite plural magar, definite plural magane)

1. abdomen, belly, stomach

Synonyms

• underliv

Derived terms

• magedans
• magekreft
• mageplask
• magesekk
• magesår

 

References

• “mage” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish maghi, from Old Norse magi, from Proto-Germanic *magô, from Proto-Indo-European *mak-, *maks-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²mɑːɡɛ/

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Noun

mage c

1. The stomach.
2. The body part between the thorax and the pelvis; the abdomen, belly.
3. (in idiomatic expressions) insolence, gall, cheek

   Ni hade alltså mage att komma oinbjudna?

   So you had the gall to come uninvited?

Declension

Declension of mage
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	mage	magen	magar	magarna
Genitive	mages	magens	magars	magarnas

Synonyms

• abdomen
• buk
• kagge
• kula

Derived terms

• ha is i magen – to be calm and cool under pressure; "to have ice in the stomach"
• ha mage – to have the insolence to do something; "to have stomach (for something)"
• hård i magen – having difficulty passing excrements, being constipated; "hard stomach"
• lös i magen – having loose bowels; "soft/loose stomach"

komage kulmage magbesvär magblödning magborstare magcancer magdans magdanserska

magdansös maggrop maggördel maginfluensa maginnehåll magkatarr magknip magkänsla magmun magmuskel magont magplask

magpumpa magpumpning magsaft magsjuk magsjuka magskölja magsköljning magsmärtor magsond magstark magsur magsyra

magsår magsäck magtrakten ölmage

References

• mage in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

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West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian maga, from Proto-Germanic *magô.

Noun

mage c (plural magen, diminutive maachje)

1. stomach

Further reading

• “mage”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011