mage

See also: Mage, Magé, magë, and måge

English

Etymology

From Middle English mages (plurale tantum), from Latin magus. Doublet of magus.

Pronunciation

• enPR: māj, IPA^(key): /meɪdʒ/

• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

Noun

mage (plural magi or mages)

1. (chiefly fantasy) A magician, wizard or sorcerer.
2. (obsolete) Synonym of magus: a Zoroastrian priest.
   • c. 1790, Edward Gibbon, On the Position of the Meridional Line, and the supposed Circumnavigation of Africa by the Ancients; republished as The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq. […] , volume 5, 1814, pages 186–87:

     While the liberality of Gelo and his brother Hiero atracted every stranger who could amuse or instruct the court of Syracuse, a Persian Mage related to the former of those princes that he himself had circumnavigated the whole continent of Africa.

Derived terms

• archmage

Translations

magician, wizard or sorcerer

• Arabic: ساحر‎ m, مجوس‎ m
• Bulgarian: магьосник (bg) m (magjosnik)
• Catalan: mag (ca) m, màgic (ca) 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 (de) m, Zaubrerin (de) 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
• Spanish: mago (es) m, hechicero (es) m
• Swedish: trollkarl (sv) c, magiker (sv) c

Anagrams

• MEGA, Mega, game, mega, mega-

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Afrikaans

Noun

mage

1. plural of maag

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmæːjə], [ˈmæːæ]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse maki, from Proto-Germanic *makô, *gamakô, cognate with English match.

Noun

mage c (singular definite magen, plural indefinite mager)

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

Declension

Declension of mage

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

Derived terms

• mage til, magen til ("identical", lit. "(the) match of")

Further reading

• “mage,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “mage,1” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Adjective

mage (uninflected)

1. (dated) matching
   • 1895, Magdalene Thoresen, Livsluft: fortaellinger, page 2:

     Den store Kjærlighed, som forenede dem til et i Sandhed mage Par, var vokset i jævn og kraftig Stigning fra Medfølelse til Respekt, fra den til Beundring - og da var der jo ikke ret langt til Kjærligheden!

     The great love that united them into a truly well-fittingcouple, had grown at an even and strong rate from sympathy to respect, from that to admiration - and then there was no far distance to love!

   • 2009, Peter Michael Lauritzen, Grund og bølge: en litterær, tids- og åndshistorisk studie af Erik Aalbæk Jensens forfatterskab, Gyldendal A/S (→ISBN), page 469:

     De er vel tilsyneladende, med hele rigdommens selvsikkerhed, et mere mage par, end den umage Erling […] ville være sammen med Hedvig.

     They are seemingly, with all the confidence of wealth, a more similar pair, than the dissimilar Erling […] would be with Hedvig.

   Synonym: umage

Further reading

• “mage,3” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “mage,3” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German māken, from Old Saxon makōn, from Proto-West Germanic *makōn, cognate with English make, German machen, Dutch maken. Old Norse maka, Norwegian make, Swedish maka are also borrowed from Low German. The verb is derived from the adjective Proto-Germanic *makaz (“suitable”).

Verb

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

1. to arrange

Further reading

• “mage,3” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “mage,5” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

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Dutch Low Saxon

Etymology

From Old Saxon mago, from Proto-West Germanic *magō, 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

Etymology

From Latin magus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maʒ/
• Rhymes: -aʒ

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 Zoroastrian religion, of the Persians and 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 Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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-West Germanic *magō.

Noun

māge f or m

1. stomach

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

mâge

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

Further reading

• “maghe”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “mage (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

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Middle Low German

Etymology

From Old Saxon mago, from Proto-West Germanic *magō. 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. The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²mɑːjə/, /²mɑːɡə/ (examples of pronunciation)

Noun

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

1. abdomen, belly, stomach

Alternative forms

• maga, magje, maagaa, mågå

Synonyms

• underliv

Derived terms

• bladmage
• dessertmage
• istermage
• kjertelmage
• kulemage
• løypemage
• magebelte
• magedans
• magehistorie
• magekatarr
• magekjensle
• mageknip
• magekreft
• magemunn
• magemål
• mageplask
• mageriv
• magesaft
• magesekk
• magesjau
• magesjuke
• magesmerte
• magesykje
• magesyre
• mageverk
• magevondt
• magesår
• middagsmage
• nettmage
• puntlêrsmage
• på tom mage
• sidmaga
• stormaga
• strutsemage
• sundmage
• surmaga
• treg mage
• trå mage
• ølmage

 

Verb

mage (present tense magar, past tense maga, past participle maga, passive infinitive magast, present participle magande, imperative mage/mag)

1. (transitive) to gut

   Synonym: sløye

2. (transitive) to regurgitate (to cough up from the gut to feed its young, as an animal or bird does.)
3. (intransitive or reflexive, rare) to move by crawling with one's belly to the floor or ground

Alternative forms

• maga (a- or split infinitive)

References

• “mage” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• game, gema, mega-

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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. stomach
2. abdomen, belly (body part between thorax and pelvis)

   Synonyms: buk, abdomen, (colloquial) kagge

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

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
• magsäck
• magsår
• magtrakten
• ölmage

 

References

• mage in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• mega-

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West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian maga, from Proto-West Germanic *magō.

Noun

mage c (plural magen, diminutive maachje)

1. stomach

Further reading

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