bag

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English

Etymology

From Middle English bagge, from Old Norse baggi (“bag, pack, satchel, bundle”) (whence also Old French bague (“bundle, package, sack”)); related to Old Norse bǫggr (“harm, shame; load, burden”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰak- (compare Welsh baich (“load, bundle”), Ancient Greek βάσταγμα (bástagma, “load”)).

Pronunciation

• enPR: băg, IPA^(key): /ˈbæɡ/
  • (Southern England, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈbæːɡ/
  • (New Zealand, some US dialects) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛɡ/
  • (Upper Midwestern US) IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪɡ/
• Rhymes: -æɡ

Noun

bag (plural bags)

1. A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.

   Synonyms: (obsolete) poke, sack, tote

2. A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.

   Hyponyms: sack, pouch, tote, bindle, purse, backpack

3. (colloquial) One's preference.

   Synonyms: cup of tea, thing; see also Thesaurus:predilection
4. (derogatory) An ugly woman.

   Synonyms: dog, hag

5. (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.

6. (baseball) First, second, or third base.

7. (preceded by the) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
8. (mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.

   Synonym: multiset

9. A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
   2. An udder, especially the pendulous one of a dairy cow.

      Synonym: milkbag

      Meronym: teats

   4. (usually in the plural) The human female breast.

      Synonyms: milkbag, funbag; see also Thesaurus:breasts

10. (now historical) A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
    • 1774, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, 1 December:

      He had on a suit of Manchester velvet, Lined with white satten, a Bag, lace Ruffles, and a very handsome sword which the King had given to him.

11. The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
12. (UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
13. (chiefly in the plural) A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
14. (informal) A large number or amount.
15. (slang)
    2. (countable, uncountable) In certain phrases: money.
    3. (US, gay slang, derogatory) A fellow gay man.
    4. A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
    5. (vulgar) The scrotum.
    7. (Cockney rhyming slang) £1000, a grand.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Japanese: バッグ
• → Korean: 백 (baek)
• → Norwegian: bag

Translations

Verb

bag (third-person singular simple present bags, present participle bagging, simple past and past participle bagged)

1. (transitive) To put into a bag.
2. (transitive) To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
   1. (informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
   2. To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
   3. (slang) To steal.
   4. (slang, African-American Vernacular) To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.
   5. (slang) To arrest.

      Synonym: nick
3. (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
   1. (transitive, medicine) To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
   2. (transitive, medicine) To fit with a bag to collect urine.
4. To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
   1. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.

   2. To hang like an empty bag.

   3. (nautical, intransitive) To drop away from the correct course.
   4. (obsolete, intransitive) To become pregnant.
5. To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
6. (slang, African-American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
7. (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• A. F. Niemoeller (1965 January–February) “A Glossary of Homosexual Slang”, in Ralph Ginzburg, editor, Fact, volume 2, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Fact Magazine, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 25: “bag n. A fellow homosexual. Derogatory.”

Anagrams

• -gab-, ABG, AGB, BGA, GAB, GBA, Gab, gab, gab-

Antillean Creole

Etymology

From French bague.

Noun

bag

1. ring

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• bagu

Etymology

Either of substrate origin or from a Vulgar Latin *begō, from Late Latin bīgō, from Latin bīga. Less likely from Greek βάζω (vázo, “put in, set on”). May have originally referred to putting animals under a yoke. Compare Romanian băga, bag.

Verb

bag first-singular present indicative (past participle bãgatã or bãgate)

1. to put, place, apply

Related terms

• bãgari / bãgare
• bãgat
• nibãgat

See also

• pun

Breton

Etymology

Probably tied to Old French bac (“flat boat”), itself of obscure origin, although compare Vulgar Latin *baccinum (“wide bowl”).

Noun

bag f

1. boat

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse bak n (“back”), from Proto-Germanic *baką, cognate with Norwegian bak, Swedish bak, English back. The preposition is a shortening of Old Norse á bak (“on the back of”), compare English back from aback, from Old English onbæc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baːˀɣ/, [ˈb̥æˀj], [ˈb̥æˀ], [ˈpɛˀ(j)], (as a preposition or adverb always) IPA^(key): [ˈb̥æˀ], [ˈpɛˀ]

Noun

bag c (singular definite bagen, plural indefinite bage)

1. (anatomy) behind, bottom, butt, buttocks
2. seat (part of clothing)

Declension

Synonyms

• (behind): bagdel, ende, røv (informal)
• (seat): buksebag

Preposition

bag

1. behind

Adverb

bag

1. behind

Etymology 2

From the verb to bake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baːˀɣ/, [ˈb̥æˀj], [ˈb̥æˀ]

Noun

bag n (singular definite baget, plural indefinite bage)

1. (rare) pastry

   Synonym: bagværk

Declension

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baːˀɣ/, [ˈb̥æˀj], [ˈb̥æˀ]

Verb

bag

1. imperative of bage

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French bague (“ring”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baɡ/

Noun

bag

1. ring

Meriam

Noun

bag

1. cheek

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• bagg

Etymology

Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæɡ/

Noun

bag m (definite singular bagen, indefinite plural bager, definite plural bagene)

1. A purse more or less similar to a bag or sack.
2. (on a baby carriage) a detachable part of the carriage to lie on.

References

• “bag” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• bagg

Etymology

Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi. Doublet of bagge.

Noun

bag m (definite singular bagen, indefinite plural bagar, definite plural bagane)

1. A purse more or less similar to a bag or sack.
2. (on a baby carriage) a detachable part of the carriage to lie on.

References

• “bag” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• bāch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *baug (“ring”). Cognate to Old English bēag.

Noun

bāg m

1. a ring

Inflection

Rohingya

Etymology

From Magadhi Prakrit [Term?], from Sanskrit व्याघ्र (vyāghra).

Noun

bag

1. tiger

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [baɡ]

Verb

bag

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of băga

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi.

Noun

bag c

1. A kind of large bag; a duffel bag

Declension

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English bag.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɡ/ [ˈbaɡ̚]
• Rhymes: -aɡ
• Syllabification: bag

Noun

bag (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜄ᜔)

1. ladies' bag; handbag
2. paper or cloth bag

   Synonym: supot

3. jute sack (for grains, cereals, etc.)

   Synonyms: sako, kustal

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From Meriam bag.

Noun

bag

1. (anatomy, eastern dialect) cheek

Synonyms

• masa (western dialect)

Turkmen

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑːɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɡ
• Hyphenation: bag

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *bāg. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bag (definite accusative bagy, plural baglar)

1. string, lace, shoelace

Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Classical Persian بَاغ (bāğ).

Noun

bag (definite accusative bagy, plural baglar)

1. garden

   Bag ýanýar. ― The garden is on fire.

2. orchard, grove
3. park

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “bag” in Enedilim.com
• “bag” in Webonary.org

Welsh

Etymology

From English bag.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baɡ/
• Rhymes: -aɡ

Noun

bag m (plural bagiau)

1. bag

Derived terms

• bag am oes

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “bag”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /paːk˧/
• Tone numbers: bag⁸
• Hyphenation: bag

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From Proto-Tai *bra:kD?”)

Verb

bag (Sawndip forms 𭄄 or 擗 or 鐴 or 剥 or 𢫦 or 𪫮 or 扒 or 𰄙 or 𢫗 or ⿱拍刀 or 𠛋 or 𫥴 or ⿰扌劈 or 破, 1957–1982 spelling bag)

1. to chop; to split
2. (of lightning) to strike
3. to dive; to swoop down
4. to divide
5. to cut across

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bag (Sawndip forms 𭼈 or ⿸疒百 or 怕 or 剥, 1957–1982 spelling bag)

1. mental illness

Adjective

bag (Sawndip forms 𭼈 or ⿸疒百 or 怕 or 剥, 1957–1982 spelling bag)

1. crazy; mad; insane

   Synonym: vangh

Descendants

• mabag

Verb

bag (Sawndip forms 𭼈 or ⿸疒百 or 怕 or 剥, 1957–1982 spelling bag)

1. to become crazy; to go mad; to go nuts

   Synonym: vangh