mag

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Translingual

Symbol

mag

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Magahi.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæɡ/
• Rhymes: -æɡ

Etymology 1

Noun

mag (plural mags)

1. (colloquial) Clipping of magazine.

   NY Mag ― New York Magazine

2. (colloquial) Clipping of magnet.

3. (colloquial, especially medicine) Clipping of magnesium.

4. (colloquial, automotive) Ellipsis of mag wheel.

5. (astronomy) Clipping of magnitude.
6. (colloquial, law) Clipping of magistrate.
7. (colloquial) Clipping of magnetometer.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

mag (third-person singular simple present mags, present participle magging, simple past and past participle magged)

1. (transitive, obsolete, slang) To steal.

Derived terms

• magsman
• magpie

Etymology 3

Noun

mag (plural mags)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A halfpenny.

Anagrams

• MGA, GMA, Gam., AMG, gma, GAM, AGM, gam

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maχ/

Etymology 1

From Dutch mogen, from Middle Dutch mogen, from Old Dutch mugan, from Proto-Germanic *maganą, from Proto-Indo-European *magʰ-, *megʰ-.

Verb

mag (present mag, past mog)

1. may, might

Usage notes

The preterite form mog is archaic and rarely used.

Etymology 2

From Dutch macht, from Middle Dutch macht, from Old Dutch *maht, from Proto-Germanic *mahtiz, from Proto-Indo-European *mógʰtis.

Noun

mag (plural magte)

1. might; power

Albanian

Alternative forms

• mang, makth

Etymology

Denasalized variant of mang.

Noun

mag m (plural magë, definite magu, definite plural magët)

1. rabbit, hinny

Declension

Related terms

• makth
• meksh

References

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin magus, from Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos). First attested in 1803.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmak]

Noun

mag m (plural mags, feminine maga)

1. magician; wizard
2. magus (Zoroastrian priest)

Related terms

• màgic
• Reis Mags

References

Further reading

• “mag” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mag”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “mag” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mag” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German mak (“ease, calm”), related to Old Saxon makon (“to make”).

Noun

mag c or n

1. rest

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑx
• IPA^(key): /mɑx/

Verb

mag

1. inflection of mogen:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maːk/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /max/ (northern and central Germany, now chiefly colloquial)
• Rhymes: -aːk, -ax
• Homophone: mach (regional only)

Verb

mag

1. first/third-person singular present of mögen

Gothic

Romanization

mag

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐌲

Hungarian

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Finno-Ugric *muŋkɜ (“body”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɒɡ]
• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Noun

mag (plural magok)

1. seed, pip, stone, pit, core (the central part of fruits)
2. kernel, core, nucleus (the most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence)
3. Ellipsis of processzormag (“core”, an individual computer processor).

Declension

Variant plural and possessive forms:

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• mag in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• maag (nonstandard)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch maag (“stomach”), from Middle Dutch māge, from Old Dutch *mago, from Proto-Germanic *magô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmah/, /ˈmax/

Noun

mag

1. (colloquial) gastritis
2. (colloquial, rare) stomach

   Synonym: lambung

Further reading

• “mag” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) ma'g

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mako. Related to Finnish maha.

Noun

mag

1. stomach
2. belly

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *magos (“plain, field”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“big, great”) (compare Sanskrit मही (mahī́, “earth”) from the same root).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maɣ/

Noun

mag n (genitive maige, nominative plural maige)

1. a plain, field

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Irish: má
• Scottish Gaelic: magh

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mag”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 253

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin magus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmak/
• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: mag
• Homophones: mak, Mak

Noun

mag m pers

2. (folklore, fantasy) magician, wizard, sorcerer, conjurer, mage, magus (person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic)

   Synonyms: czarnoksiężnik, czarodziej, czarownik

3. (figurative) magician, wizard (person who is especially skilled or unusually talented in a particular field)

   Synonyms: cudotwórca, czarodziej

5. (historical, Zoroastrianism) magus (priest in Zoroastrianism and earlier Iranian religions)

   Hypernym: kapłan

7. (biblical, Christianity) Magus (one of the three Biblical Magi who visit Jesus after his birth, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh in homage to him)

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

• mag in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mag in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• mag in PWN's encyclopedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek μάγος (mágos) (and perhaps partly through Old Church Slavonic магъ (magŭ)), from Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos). Also more recently borrowed in part from Latin magus, itself of the same Greek origin.

Noun

mag m (plural magi)

1. magus (priest in some ancient eastern cultures, like Iranian/Zoroastrian)
2. (Christianity) one of the three kings or Magi who visited the baby Jesus
3. (figuratively) by extension, an envoy, messenger, herald, announcer

   Synonyms: sol, vestitor

4. wizard, magician, sorceror

   Synonyms: vrăjitor, magician

5. astrologer (or one who predicts the future through the stars), seer

   Synonym: astrolog

6. wise man; philosopher

   Synonyms: învățat, filozof

Declension

Related terms

• magic
• magie
• amăgi

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Verb

mag (past mhag, future magaidh, verbal noun magadh, past participle magte)

1. mock, deride

Welsh

Etymology 1

Back-formation from magu (“to rear; to breed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maːɡ/

Noun

mag m (uncountable)

1. fry (young fish)

   Synonym: silod

Mutation

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maɡ/

Noun

mag

1. Nasal mutation of bag.

Mutation

Wolof

Pronunciation

Noun

mag (definite form mag ji)

1. older sibling

   Antonym: rakk