name
Meaning 1
Saga Prefecture (a prefecture in western Kyushu, Japan)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
saga
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Sound
Pronunciation
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sä′gä
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British, Received-Pronunciation, Southern, Standard: /ˈsɑːɡə/
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General-American: /ˈsɑɡə/
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Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈsɐːɡə/
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Scotland: /ˈsaɡə/
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CMU ARPABET: S AA1 G AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
The capital city of Saga Prefecture, Japan.
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name
Meaning 3
A unisex given name.
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Usage: rare
Examples
- Saga Becker
- 2007, Saga McOdongo, Deadly money maker
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name
Meaning 4
A county of Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
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noun
Meaning 5
An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
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noun
Meaning 6
Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.
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noun
Meaning 7
plural of sagum
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Usage: form-of, plural
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noun
Meaning 8
a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: adventure story, heroic tale
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 佐賀(さが) (Saga).
From saga or its etymon Old Norse saga.
Borrowed from Tibetan ས་དགའ (sa dga').
From Old Norse saga (“epic tale, story”), from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekw- (“to say”). Cognate with Old English sagu (“story, tale, statement”), Old High German saga (“an assertion, narrative, sermon, pronouncement”), Icelandic saga (“story, tale, history”), German Sage (“saga, legend, myth”). More at say; Doublet of saw. Compare typologically Ancient Greek ἔπος (épos) (whence epos, epic) << Proto-Indo-European *wekw- (“to speak”).
From Latin saga, plural of sagum.
Across languages
Translations
75 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: سَاغَا (sāḡā) — a prefecture in Japan
- Chinese Mandarin: 佐賀 /佐贺 (Zuǒhè) — a prefecture in Japan
- Czech: Saga — a prefecture in Japan
- Hindi: सागा (sāgā) — a prefecture in Japan
- Japanese: 佐賀県 — a prefecture in Japan
- Japanese: 佐賀 — a prefecture in Japan
- Korean: 사가 — a prefecture in Japan
- Marathi: सागा (sāgā) — a prefecture in Japan
- Polish: Saga — a prefecture in Japan
- Russian: Са́га (Sága) — a prefecture in Japan
- Arabic: سَاغَا (sāḡā) — a city in Saga Prefecture
- Chinese Mandarin: 佐賀 /佐贺 (Zuǒhè) — a city in Saga Prefecture
- Czech: Saga — a city in Saga Prefecture
- Hindi: सागा (sāgā) — a city in Saga Prefecture
- Japanese: 佐賀市 (Saga-shi) — a city in Saga Prefecture
- Japanese: 佐賀 — a city in Saga Prefecture
- Korean: 사가 — a city in Saga Prefecture
- Marathi: सागा (sāgā) — a city in Saga Prefecture
- Polish: Saga — a city in Saga Prefecture
- Russian: Са́га (Sága) — a city in Saga Prefecture
- Chinese Mandarin: 薩嘎 /萨嘎 (Sàgā) — county
- Polish: Saga — county
- Bulgarian: са́га (sága) — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- Catalan: saga — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- Chinese Mandarin: 薩迦 /萨迦 (sàjiā) — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- Crimean Tatar: saga — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- Czech: sága — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- Danish: saga — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- Esperanto: sagao — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- Faroese: søga — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- Finnish: saaga — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- French: saga — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- Galician: saga — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- German: Saga — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- Hungarian: saga — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- Icelandic: saga — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- Indonesian: saga — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- Italian: saga — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- Latin: saga — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- Malay: saga — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- Polish: saga — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- Portuguese: saga — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- Russian: са́га (sága) — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- Scottish Gaelic: sàga — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- Slovak: sága — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- Slovene: saga — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- Spanish: saga — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- Swedish: saga — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- Turkish: saga — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- Võro: saaga — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- Zazaki: saga — Old Norse Icelandic prose
- Arabic: مَلحَمَة (malḥama) — long epic story
- Bulgarian: сказа́ние (skazánie) — long epic story
- Catalan: saga — long epic story
- Finnish: tarina — long epic story
- Finnish: taru — long epic story
- Finnish: saaga — long epic story
- Galician: saga — long epic story
- German: Sage — long epic story
- Hungarian: monda — long epic story
- Hungarian: rege — long epic story
- Icelandic: saga — long epic story
- Malay: saga — long epic story
- Malay: hikayat — long epic story
- Polish: saga — long epic story
- Portuguese: saga — long epic story
- Romanian: legendă nordică — long epic story
- Russian: са́га (sága) — long epic story
- Russian: эпопея (epopeja) — long epic story
- Scottish Gaelic: sàga — long epic story
- Slovene: saga — long epic story
- Spanish: saga — long epic story
- Turkish: destan — long epic story
- Uzbek: doston — long epic story
- Zazaki: destan — long epic story