Maga

From Fresh Dictionary

Contents 1 Breton 1.1 Verb 2 Hungarian 2.1 Pronoun 2.2 Adverb 3 Jamaican Patois 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Adjective 4 Old English 4.1 Pronunciation 4.1.1 Etymology 4.1.2 Noun 4.1.3 Descendents 4.2 Pronunciation 4.2.1 Noun form 5 Spanish 5.1 Noun 5.1.1 Related terms

Breton

Verb

maga

1. to feed

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Hungarian

Pronoun

maga

1. you (formal, s.)

Adverb

maga

1. himself

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Jamaican Patois

Etymology

From English meager/meagre

Adjective

maga

1. Skinny.

   Sorry fe maga dog, maga dog, turn round bite you — Peter Tosh, Maga Dog, 1964

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Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /'maÉ£a/

Etymology

From Germanic *magē-, from Indo-European *mak- ‘bag, belly’. Cognate with Old Frisian maga, Middle Dutch maghe (Dutch maag), Old High German mago (German Magen), Old Norse magi (Swedish mage). The IE root is also the source of Celtic *makno- (Welsh megin ‘bellows’), Slavic *mošьnā (Old Church Slavonic мошьна, Russian мошна ‘pocket, bag’), Baltic *maka- (Lithuanian mãkas ‘purse’).

Noun

maga m.

1. the stomach of an animal or person

Descendents

• English maw

Pronunciation

• IPA: /'ma:É£a/

Noun form

māga

1. genitive plural of mǣġ

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Spanish

Noun

maga f.

1. female magician, female conjurer

Related terms

• mago m.fr:maga

hu:maga