naga

See also: Naga, nagą, nāga, Nāga, and någå

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɑːɡə/

Etymology 1

From an Australian Aboriginal language; cf. Wulna nākā (“dress, covering”)

Noun

naga (plural nagas)

1. (Australia) A 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?

Etymology 2

Mucalinda nāga sheltering Buddha; Sandstone with traces of pigment and gold, Honolulu Academy of Arts

Borrowed from Sanskrit नाग (nāga, “serpent, snake”). Doublet of snake.

Alternative forms

• nāga, Nāga

Noun

naga (plural nagas)

1. (Indian mythology) A member of a class of semi-divine creatures, often taking the form of a very large snake and associated with water.
   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 257:

     The five-coned towers form a quincunx, and their flanks are scooped into niches in each of which has been placed a smiling buddha shaded by a nine-headed naga like a big palm fan.

Translations

a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake

• Assamese: please add this translation if you can
• Burmese: နဂါး (my) (na.ga:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 那伽 (zh) (nàgā), 龍 (zh) (lóng)

• French: nâga (fr) m
• Greek: νάγκα (nágka)
• Gujarati: નાગ (nāg)
• Hindi: नाग (hi) m (nāg)
• Japanese: ナーガ (nāga), 竜 (ja) (ryū)
• Khmer: នាគ (km) (niək)
• Korean: 나가 (naga)
• Lao: ນາກ (nāk)
• Lü: ᦓᦱᧅ (naak)
• Marathi: नाग (nāg)
• Mon: နာ် (mnw)
• Mongolian: лус (mn) (lus)

• Naga Pidgin: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: नाग (ne) (nāg)
• Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: naga f
• Russian: наг (ru) m (nag)
• Sanskrit: नाग (sa) m (nāga)
• Shan: ၼၵႃး (shn) (nǎ káa)
• Tamil: நாக (nāka)
• Telugu: నాగ (te) (nāga)
• Thai: นาค (th) (nâak), พญานาค
• Tibetan: ཀླུ (klu)
• Urdu: ناگ‎ m (nāg)
• Vietnamese: naga
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• Agan, GNAA

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Bikol Central

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: na‧ga
• IPA^(key): /naˈɡaʔ/

Noun

nagâ

1. wild duck

See also

• itik
• pato

 

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: na‧ga
• IPA^(key): /ˈnaɡa/

Noun

nága

1. (archaic) the narra tree (Pterocarpus indicus)

   Synonym: nara

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Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: na‧ga
• IPA^(key): /ˈnaɡa/, [ˈn̪aɡʌ]

Noun

naga (plural kanagahan)

1. the narra tree (Pterocarpus indicus)
2. the wood from this tree

Synonyms

• nara

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Verb

naga

1. first-person singular present indicative of nagaan (when using a subclause)
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of nagaan (when using a subclause)

Anagrams

• gaan, ga na

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaːɣa/
• Rhymes: -aːɣa

Verb

naga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative nagaði, supine nagað)

1. (transitive, governs the accusative) to gnaw

Conjugation

naga — active voice (germynd)

infinitive (nafnháttur)		að naga
supine (sagnbót)		nagað
present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar)		nagandi
	indicative (framsöguháttur)			subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur)
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.

nagast — mediopassive voice (miðmynd)

infinitive (nafnháttur)		að nagast
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
	indicative (framsöguháttur)			subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur)
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)
	masculine (karlkyn)	feminine (kvenkyn)	neuter (hvorugkyn)		masculine (karlkyn)	feminine (kvenkyn)	neuter (hvorugkyn)
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)
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

• naga sig í handarbökin

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay naga, from Sanskrit नाग (nāgá, “large snake”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnaɡa]
• Hyphenation: na‧ga
• Rhymes: -ɡa, -a

Noun

naga (plural naga-naga, first-person possessive nagaku, second-person possessive nagamu, third-person possessive naganya)

1. dragon (mythical creature)

Further reading

• “naga” in Online Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language [Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia Daring], Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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Italian

Etymology

From Sanskrit नाग (nāga, “snake”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *nāgás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *nāgás, derived from Proto-Indo-European *sneg- (“to crawl”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

naga m (invariable)

1. (Buddhist art) A representation of a human torso with a serpentine body.

References

• naga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Laboya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnaːɡa]

Noun

naga

1. jackfruit

References

• Allahverdi Verdizade (2019), “naga”, in Lamboya word list, Leiden: LexiRumah

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Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaɡa/

Adjective

naga

1. feminine nominative singular of nagi

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Maia

Noun

naga

1. part; piece

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Malay

Naga cina ("Chinese dragon")

Naga Barat ("Western dragon")

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit नाग (nāgá, “large snake”).

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /naɡə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /naɡa/
• Rhymes: -aɡə, -ɡə, -ə

Noun

naga (Jawi spelling ناݢ‎, plural naga-naga, informal 1st possessive nagaku, 2nd possessive nagamu, 3rd possessive naganya)

1. dragon (mythical creature)

Further reading

• “naga” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

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Maranao

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit नाग (nāgá, “large snake”).

Noun

naga

1. dragon

References

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

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Murui Huitoto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈna.ɡa]
• Hyphenation: na‧ga

Determiner

naga

1. each, every

References

• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[1], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 154
• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[2] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 184

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Mwotlap

Etymology

From na- +‎ ga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naɣa/

Noun

naga

1. Determinate form of ga (“kava”)

References

• François, Alexandre. 2022. Online Mwotlap–English–French cultural dictionary. Electronic files. Paris: CNRS. (Pdf version) – entry ga.

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Northern Sotho

Noun

naga

1. land, country

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈna.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Syllabification: na‧ga

Adjective

naga

1. feminine nominative/vocative singular of nagi

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Portuguese

Noun

naga f (plural nagas)

1. (Indian mythology) naga (semi-divine creature taking the form of a giant snake)

Related terms

• naja

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Tagalog

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: na‧ga
• IPA^(key): /ˈnaɡa/, [ˈnɐ.ɣɐ]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Sanskrit नाग (nāgá, “large snake”).

Noun

naga

1. dragon
2. figurehead on the prow of ships

Etymology 2

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *naʀah.

Noun

naga

1. a species of narra

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Yakan

Etymology

Ultimately borrowed from Sanskrit नाग (nāgá, “large snake”).

Noun

naga

1. dragon