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Saga

Sa′ga

(sā′gȧ)
,
Noun.
;
pl.
Sagas
(-gȧz)
.
[Icel., akin to E.
saw
a saying. See
Say
, and cf.
Saw
.]
A Scandinavian legend, or heroic or mythic tradition, among the Norsemen and kindred people; a northern European popular historical or religious tale of olden time.
And then the blue-eyed Norseman told
A
saga
of the days of old.
Longfellow.

Definition 2024

Saga

Saga

See also: saga, säga, såga, sàga, sága, saĝa, and sağa

English

Proper noun

Saga

  1. Saga Prefecture - a prefecture in the Western island, Kyushu, Japan.
  2. A city in Saga Prefecture, Japan.

Translations

Anagrams

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsaːɣa/
  • Rhymes: -aːɣa
  • Homophone: saga

Proper noun

Saga f

  1. A female given name

Declension

Swedish

Proper noun

Saga

  1. A female given name derived from the Swedish noun saga, used since the 19th century.

saga

saga

See also: Saga, säga, såga, sàga, sága, saĝa, and sağa

English

Noun

saga ‎(plural sagas)

  1. An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
  2. Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.
    • 2011 October 1, David Ornstein, “Blackburn 0-4 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
      Manchester City put the Carlos Tevez saga behind them with a classy victory at Blackburn that keeps them level on points with leaders Manchester United.
    • 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
      According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.

Translations

long epic story

Anagrams

Balinese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

Noun

saga

  1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

Catalan

Etymology 1

Arabic

Noun

saga f ‎(plural sagues)

  1. saga

Etymology 2

Old Norse

Noun

saga f ‎(plural sagues)

  1. back, behind, rear

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Old Norse saga.

Noun

saga

  1. saga

Declension

References

  • Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary], Simferopol: Dolya, ISBN 966-7980-89-8

Faroese

Etymology

From sag ‎(“saw”).

Pronunciation

  • Homophone: sagað

Verb

saga ‎(third person singular past indicative sagaði, third person plural past indicative sagaðu, supine sagað)

  1. to saw
Conjugation

Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *sanga.

Noun

saga

  1. (anatomy) thigh

Finnish

Noun

saga

  1. Alternative spelling of saaga

Declension

Inflection of saga (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative saga sagat
genitive sagan sagojen
partitive sagaa sagoja
illative sagaan sagoihin
singular plural
nominative saga sagat
accusative nom. saga sagat
gen. sagan
genitive sagan sagojen
sagainrare
partitive sagaa sagoja
inessive sagassa sagoissa
elative sagasta sagoista
illative sagaan sagoihin
adessive sagalla sagoilla
ablative sagalta sagoilta
allative sagalle sagoille
essive sagana sagoina
translative sagaksi sagoiksi
instructive — sagoin
abessive sagatta sagoitta
comitative — sagoineen

French

Etymology

Old Norse segja ‎(“to say”)

Noun

saga f ‎(plural sagas)

  1. saga

Anagrams

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsaːɣa/
  • Rhymes: -aːɣa

Etymology 1

From the Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ. Cognate with Old English sagu (English saw); Old Frisian sege; Old High German saga (German Sage); Old Danish saghæ, Old Swedish sagha, Faroese søga, Nynorsk soge, Jutlandic save ‎(“a narrative, a narration, a tale, a report”), Swedish saga. Perhaps related to Lithuanian pasaka.

Compare with segja ‎(“to say, to tell”) and sögn ‎(“a story”).

Noun

saga f ‎(genitive singular sögu, nominative plural sögur)

  1. a story
    Segðu mér sögu.‎
    Tell me a story.
  2. a history
    Saga Japans er mjög áhugaverð.‎
    The history of Japan is very interesting.
  3. a saga
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From sög ‎(“saw”).

Verb

saga ‎(weak verb, third-person singular past indicative sagaði, supine sagað)

  1. to saw
Conjugation
sagast — mediopassive voice (miðmynd)
infinitive
(nafnháttur) 		að sagast
supine
(sagnbót) 		sagast
present participle
(lýsingarháttur nútíðar) 		sagandist **
** 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 sagast við sögumst present
(nútíð) 		ég sagist við sögumst
þú sagast þið sagist þú sagist þið sagist
hann, hún, það sagast þeir, þær, þau sagast hann, hún, það sagist þeir, þær, þau sagist
past
(þátíð) 		ég sagaðist við söguðumst past
(þátíð) 		ég sagaðist við söguðumst
þú sagaðist þið söguðust þú sagaðist þið söguðust
hann, hún, það sagaðist þeir, þær, þau söguðust hann, hún, það sagaðist þeir, þær, þau söguðust
imperative
(boðháttur) 		sagast (þú) sagist (þið)
Forms with appended personal pronoun
sagastu sagisti *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

Etymology 3

Noun

saga

  1. indefinite genitive plural of sög

Anagrams

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay saga, from Proto-Malayic *saga, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

Noun

saga

  1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsa.ga/, [ˈs̪äːgä]
  • Hyphenation: sà‧ga

Etymology 1

From Old Norse saga.

Noun

saga f ‎(plural saghe)

  1. saga

Etymology 2

From Latin sāga.

Noun

saga f ‎(plural saghe)

  1. (obsolete, literary) witch

Etymology 3

Adjective

saga

  1. singular feminine of sago

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

saga

  1. rōmaji reading of さが

Javanese

Etymology

From Old Javanese, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

Noun

saga

  1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

Latin

Etymology 1

Substantivisation of the female form of sāgus ‎(“soothsaying”).

Pronunciation

Noun

sāga f ‎(genitive sāgae); first declension

  1. a female sage, fortune-teller, witch
Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative sāga sāgae
genitive sāgae sāgārum
dative sāgae sāgīs
accusative sāgam sāgās
ablative sāgā sāgīs
vocative sāga sāgae
Descendants

Etymology 2

Adjective

sāga

  1. singular feminine nominative of sāgus
  2. singular feminine vocative of sāgus
  3. plural neuter nominative of sāgus
  4. plural neuter accusative of sāgus
  5. plural neuter vocative of sāgus

sāgā

  1. singular feminine ablative of sāgus

Etymology 3

Noun

saga n

  1. nominative plural of sagum
  2. accusative plural of sagum
  3. vocative plural of sagum

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

  • (sagà) IPA(key): [s̪ɐˈɡɐ]
  • (sãga) IPA(key): [ˈs̪ä̌ːɡɐ]

Etymology 1

Noun

sagà f ‎(plural sãgos) stress pattern 4 [1]

  1. button
    sagas įsiūti[1] - to sew buttons on
Declension
Related terms
Derived terms
  • (diminutive nouns) sagelė, sagutė

Etymology 2

From Old Norse.

Noun

sagà f ‎(plural sãgos) stress pattern 2 [1]

  1. saga
  2. (in broader sense) story, legend
Declension
Synonyms
  • (legend): sakmė f

Anagrams

References

  1. 1 2 3 “saga” in Juozas Balčikonis [et al.] (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.

Malay

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayic *saga, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

Noun

saga

  1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

Etymology 2

From English saga, from Old Norse saga ‎(“epic tale, story”), from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ ‎(“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷe-, *skʷē- ‎(“to tell, talk”).

Noun

saga

  1. saga (Old Norse Icelandic prose)
  2. saga (long epic story)

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • (of sag) sagen
  • (of sage) saget
  • (of sage) sagde (simple past)
  • (of sage) sagd (past participle)

Noun

saga m, f

  1. definite feminine singular of sag

Verb

saga

  1. simple past of sage
  2. past participle of sage

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

saga f

  1. definite singular of sag

Old English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *sagô ‎(“saw, scythe”), *sagō, from Proto-Indo-European *sek-, *sēik- ‎(“to cut”). Cognate with Old Frisian sage (West Frisian seage), Old Saxon saga, Middle Dutch sage, saghe (Dutch zaag), Old High German saga (German Säge), Old Norse sǫg (Icelandic sög, Danish sav, Swedish såg).

Alternative forms

Noun

saga m ‎(nominative plural sagan)

  1. saw (tool)
Descendants
  • Middle English: sawe

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *sagō, *sagǭ ‎(“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷe-, *skʷē- ‎(“to tell, talk”). More at saw.

Noun

saga m ‎(nominative plural sagan)

  1. saying; statement
  2. story, tale; narrative
Declension
Related terms

Verb

saga

  1. imperative form of secgan

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sagǭ. Cognate with Old English sagu, Old Norse and Icelandic saga.

Noun

saga f

  1. story

Descendants

Old Javanese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

Noun

saga

  1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

Old Saxon

Etymology

Cognate with Old English sagu, Frisian sege, Old High German saga (German Sage), Old Norse saga.

Noun

saga f

  1. statement, discourse, report

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Norse saga.

Noun

saga f (plural sagas)

  1. saga (Old Norse prose narrative)
  2. (by extension) saga (long, epic story)

Sasak

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

Noun

saga

  1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Old Norse saga.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sâːɡa/
  • Hyphenation: sa‧ga

Noun

sȃga f ‎(Cyrillic spelling са̑га)

  1. saga

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Norse saga.

Noun

saga f ‎(plural sagas)

  1. saga

Sundanese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saga.

Noun

saga

  1. jequirity (Abrus precatorius)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish sagha, from Old Norse saga, from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ. Cognate with Old English sagu (English saw); Old Frisian sege; Old High German saga (German Sage); Old Danish saghæ, Faroese søga, Nynorsk soge, Jutlandic save ‎(“a narrative, a narration, a tale, a report”), Icelandic saga. Perhaps related to Lithuanian pasaka.

Pronunciation

Noun

saga c

  1. fairy tale
  2. epic, long story

Declension

Inflection of saga 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative saga sagan sagor sagorna
Genitive sagas sagans sagors sagornas

Turkish

Etymology

From Old Norse saga.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsɑɡɑ]

Noun

saga ‎(definite accusative sagayı, plural sagalar)

  1. Old Norse (Icelandic) saga

Declension

Etymology

From Old Norse saga ‎(“epic tale, story”), from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ ‎(“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷe-, *skʷē- ‎(“to tell, talk”). Cognate with Old English sagu ‎(“story, tale, statement”), Old High German saga ‎(“an assertion, narrative, sermon, pronouncement”), Icelandic saga ‎(“story, tale, history”). More at saw, say.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɑːɡə/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːɡə
  • IPA(key): /ˈsɑɡɑ/, [ˈsɑɣɑ]

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