naga
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English[edit]
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Etymology 1[edit]
From an Australian Aboriginal language; cf. Wulna nākā (“dress, covering”)[1]
Noun[edit]
naga (plural nagas)
- (Australia) loincloth.
- 1926, The Sydney Morning Herald, 30 October, 1926
- Boys and many of the men wear the naga, akin to bathing trunks […]
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter II, p. 22,
- […] a young lubra wearing nothing but a naga of paper-bark rose and came forward shyly.
- 2006, Message Stick, ABC1, Friday, 30 June, 2006
- PAUL RUNDLE: Backstage, they were just asking us, "Where are you from," and all that. And they were touching us and all that there, and I was just there with my little naga and, yeah. And plus we had no ochre, so we had to use sunscreen.
- 2008, Derrick Tomlinson, "Too white to be regarded as Aborigines: An historical analysis of policies for the protection of Aborigines and the assimilation of Aborigines of mixed descent, and the role of Chief Protectors of Aborigines in the formulation and implementation of those policies, in Western Australia from 1898 to 1940" (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)). University of Notre Dame Australia.
- They doesn’t dress like people doing the Law this time, walking in shirt and tie, they used to have naga and really truly paint up, real tribal way, you know?
- 1926, The Sydney Morning Herald, 30 October, 1926
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
naga (plural nagas)
- Alternative spelling of nāga
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Verb[edit]
naga
- first-person singular present indicative of nagaan (when using a subclause)
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of nagaan (when using a subclause)
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Verb[edit]
naga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative nagaði, supine nagað)
- (transitive, governs the accusative) to gnaw
Conjugation[edit]
naga — active voice (germynd)
infinitive (nafnháttur) |
að naga | ||||
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supine (sagnbót) |
nagað | ||||
present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar) |
nagandi | ||||
indicative (framsöguháttur) |
subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) |
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present (nútíð) |
ég naga | við nögum | present (nútíð) |
ég nagi | við nögum |
þú nagar | þið nagið | þú nagir | þið nagið | ||
hann, hún, það nagar | þeir, þær, þau naga | hann, hún, það nagi | þeir, þær, þau nagi | ||
past (þátíð) |
ég nagaði | við nöguðum | past (þátíð) |
ég nagaði | við nöguðum |
þú nagaðir | þið nöguðuð | þú nagaðir | þið nöguðuð | ||
hann, hún, það nagaði | þeir, þær, þau nöguðu | hann, hún, það nagaði | þeir, þær, þau nöguðu | ||
imperative (boðháttur) |
naga (þú) | nagið (þið) | |||
Forms with appended personal pronoun | |||||
nagaðu | nagiði * | ||||
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred. |
infinitive (nafnháttur) |
að nagast | ||||
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supine (sagnbót) |
nagast | ||||
present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar) |
nagandist ** ** the mediopassive present participle is extremely rare and normally not used; it is never used attributively or predicatively, only for explicatory subclauses |
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indicative (framsöguháttur) |
subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) |
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present (nútíð) |
ég nagast | við nögumst | present (nútíð) |
ég nagist | við nögumst |
þú nagast | þið nagist | þú nagist | þið nagist | ||
hann, hún, það nagast | þeir, þær, þau nagast | hann, hún, það nagist | þeir, þær, þau nagist | ||
past (þátíð) |
ég nagaðist | við nöguðumst | past (þátíð) |
ég nagaðist | við nöguðumst |
þú nagaðist | þið nöguðust | þú nagaðist | þið nöguðust | ||
hann, hún, það nagaðist | þeir, þær, þau nöguðust | hann, hún, það nagaðist | þeir, þær, þau nöguðust | ||
imperative (boðháttur) |
nagast (þú) | nagist (þið) | |||
Forms with appended personal pronoun | |||||
nagastu | nagisti * | ||||
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred. |
nagaður — past participle (lýsingarháttur þátíðar)
strong declension (sterk beyging) |
singular (eintala) | plural (fleirtala) | |||||
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masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) |
masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) |
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nominative (nefnifall) |
nagaður | nöguð | nagað | nagaðir | nagaðar | nöguð | |
accusative (þolfall) |
nagaðan | nagaða | nagað | nagaða | nagaðar | nöguð | |
dative (þágufall) |
nöguðum | nagaðri | nöguðu | nöguðum | nöguðum | nöguðum | |
genitive (eignarfall) |
nagaðs | nagaðrar | nagaðs | nagaðra | nagaðra | nagaðra | |
weak declension (veik beyging) |
singular (eintala) | plural (fleirtala) | |||||
masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) |
masculine (karlkyn) |
feminine (kvenkyn) |
neuter (hvorugkyn) |
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nominative (nefnifall) |
nagaði | nagaða | nagaða | nöguðu | nöguðu | nöguðu | |
accusative (þolfall) |
nagaða | nöguðu | nagaða | nöguðu | nöguðu | nöguðu | |
dative (þágufall) |
nagaða | nöguðu | nagaða | nöguðu | nöguðu | nöguðu | |
genitive (eignarfall) |
nagaða | nöguðu | nagaða | nöguðu | nöguðu | nöguðu |
Derived terms[edit]
Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Malay naga, from Sanskrit.
Noun[edit]
naga
- dragon (mythical creature)
Lower Sorbian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
naga
Maia[edit]
Noun[edit]
naga
Malay[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Sanskrit नाग (nāgá, “large snake”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /naɡə/
- (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /naɡa/
- Rhymes: -aɡə, -ɡə, -ə
Noun[edit]
naga
- dragon (mythical creature)
Northern Sotho[edit]
Noun[edit]
naga
Polish[edit]
Adjective[edit]
naga
Portuguese[edit]
Noun[edit]
naga f (plural nagas)
- (Indian mythology) nāga (semi-divine creature taking the form of a giant snake)
Related terms[edit]
Tagalog[edit]
Noun[edit]
naga
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