name
Meaning 1
A provincial city in Camarines Sur, Philippines.
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Standard Lemma guide
naga
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Pronunciation
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Philippines: /ˈn̪aː.ɡɐ/
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rhymes with -ɑːɡə
name
Meaning 2
A city in Cebu, Philippines.
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name
Meaning 3
A municipality of Zamboanga Sibugay, Philippines.
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noun
Meaning 4
A loincloth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia
Examples
- 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?
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noun
Meaning 5
A member of a class of semi-divine creatures, often taking the form of a very large snake and associated with water.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Indian mythology
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noun
Meaning 6
A fictional creature with the lower body of a snake, and an upper body either of an anthropomorphic version thereof, or of a human or another humanoid creature. The serpentine equivalent of a taur.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: lifestyle
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- Coordinate term: lamia
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noun
Meaning 7
A member of a conglomeration of various tribes, living in Nagaland (India) and surrounding areas, and speaking various Tibeto-Burman languages.
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noun
Meaning 8
Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: Kamarupan
History
Etymology
From an Australian Aboriginal language; cf. Wulna nākā (“dress, covering”)
Borrowed from Sanskrit नाग (nāga, “serpent, snake”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nogwós (“naked”) and cognate with naked.
Across languages
Translations
36 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Balinese: naga — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Burmese: နဂါး (na.ga:) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Chinese Mandarin: 那伽 (nàgā) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Chinese Mandarin: 龍 /龙 (lóng) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- French: nâga — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Greek: νάγκα (nágka) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Gujarati: નાગ (nāg) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Hindi: नाग (nāg) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Indonesian: naga — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Japanese: ナーガ (nāga) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Japanese: 竜 (ryū) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Javanese: ꦤꦒ (naga) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Old Javanese: nāga — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Kalmyk: лус (lus) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Kalmyk: луусин хан (luusin xan) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Khmer: នាគ (niək) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Korean: 나가 (naga) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Korean: 용 (yong) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Lao: ນາກ (nāk) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Lü: ᦓᦱᧅ (naak) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Marathi: नाग (nāg) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Mon: နာ် — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Mongolian: лус (lus) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Nepali: नाग (nāg) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Portuguese: naga — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Russian: нага (naga) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Sanskrit: नाग (nāga) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Shan: ၼၵႃး (nǎ káa) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Sikkimese: ཀླུ (klu) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Tamil: நாக (nāka) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Telugu: నాగ (nāga) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Thai: นาค (nâak) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Thai: พญานาค (nâak) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Tibetan: ཀླུ (klu) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Urdu: ناگ (nāg) — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake
- Vietnamese: naga — a semi-divine mythological creature in the form of a snake