naga

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɑːɡə/

From an Australian Aboriginal language; cf. Wulna nākā (“dress, covering”)[1]

naga (plural nagas)

1. (Australia) loincloth.
   • 1926, The Sydney Morning Herald, 30 October, 1926

     Boys and many of the men wear the naga, akin to bathing trunks […]

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter II, p. 22,

     […] a young lubra wearing nothing but a naga of paper-bark rose and came forward shyly.

   • 2006, Message Stick, ABC1, Friday, 30 June, 2006

     PAUL RUNDLE: Backstage, they were just asking us, "Where are you from," and all that. And they were touching us and all that there, and I was just there with my little naga and, yeah. And plus we had no ochre, so we had to use sunscreen.

   • 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?

Mucalinda nāga sheltering Buddha; Sandstone with traces of pigment and gold, Honolulu Academy of Arts

Borrowed from Sanskrit नाग (nāgá, “serpent, snake”). Doublet of snake.

• nāga, Nāga

naga (plural nagas)

1. (Indian mythology) A member of a class of semi-divine creatures, often taking the form of a very large snake and associated with water.
   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 257:

     The five-coned towers form a quincunx, and their flanks are scooped into niches in each of which has been placed a smiling buddha shaded by a nine-headed naga like a big palm fan.

• Agan, GNAA

• Hyphenation: na‧ga

naga (plural kanagahan)

1. the narra tree (Pterocarpus indicus)
2. the wood from this tree

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naga

1. first-person singular present indicative of nagaan (when using a subclause)
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of nagaan (when using a subclause)

• gaan, ga na

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaːɣa/
• Rhymes: -aːɣa

naga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative nagaði, supine nagað)

1. (transitive, governs the accusative) to gnaw

• naga sig í handarbökin

From Malay naga, from Sanskrit.

naga (plural naga-naga, first-person possessive nagaku, second-person possessive nagamu, third-person possessive naganya)

1. dragon (mythical creature)

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaɡa/

naga

1. nominative singular feminine of nagi

naga

1. part; piece

From Sanskrit नाग (nāgá, “large snake”).

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /naɡə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /naɡa/
• Rhymes: -aɡə, -ɡə, -ə

naga (plural naga-naga, informal first-person possessive nagaku, informal second-person possessive nagamu, third-person possessive naganya)

1. dragon (mythical creature)

naga

1. land, country

• IPA^(key): /ˈna.ɡa/

naga

1. feminine nominative and vocative singular of nagi

naga f (plural nagas)

1. (Indian mythology) naga (semi-divine creature taking the form of a giant snake)

• naja

naga

1. dragon
2. figurehead on the prow of ships
3. a species of narra