bagi

bagi (plural bagis)

1. A voodoo sanctuary or sacred chamber.
   • 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, p. 89:

     The bar was deserted, but when Max Beauvoir and I entered the hounfour there were three of them, sitting with their backs to the ochre walls of the bagi.

   • 2013, Patrick Taylor, Frederick I. Case (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions: Volume 1, p. 1065:

     The various fronds are fixed in front of the doors of the bagi and the peristyle as well as to the potomitan […].

   • 2015, Manbo Paula Wedo, Manbo Jumbo, p. 370:

     “This is a very important time for Vodou” Papa Baz tells me as he works in the bagi.

• Baig, Biga, biga, gabi

• Hyphenation: ba‧gi

bagi

1. a unicornfish; any member of the genus Naso

From the verb baga (“to inconvenience”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaːjɪ/
• Rhymes: -aːjɪ
• IPA^(key): /ˈpaiːjɪ/[1]
• Rhymes: -aiːjɪ

bagi m (genitive singular baga, nominative plural bagar)

1. inconvenience, disadvantage

   þrengslin í húsinu eru mjög til baga ― the lack of space in the house is a serious inconvenience

   .

• vesen

From Malay, from Sanskrit भाग (bhāga).

• IPA^(key): /ba.ɡi/
• Hyphenation: ba‧gi

bagi

1. for

bagi

1. to share

bagi

1. part, share.

• bahagi

• “bagi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

From Proto-Sunda-Sulawesi *waji, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *huaji, from Proto-Austronesian *Suaji.

bagi

1. sibling ((younger) person who shares same parents)