tag

tag

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English

Etymology 1

From Middle English tagge (“small piece hanging from a garment”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian tagg (“point; prong; barb; tag”), Swedish tagg (“thorn; prickle; tine”), Icelandic tág (“a willow-twig”). Compare also tack.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: tăg, IPA(key): /tæɡ/
  • (North American also) IPA(key): /teɪɡ/
  • Rhymes: -æɡ

Noun

tag (plural tags)

  1. (heading) Physical appendage.
    1. A small label.
    2. A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
    3. A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
    4. Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
    5. A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
    6. (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
    7. Something mean and paltry; the rabble, originally refer to rag as torn cloth.
  2. (heading) Last nonphysical appendage.
    1. (music) The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
    2. (television) The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.
      Antonym: cold open
    3. The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
  3. (heading) Nonphysical label.
    1. (informal, authorship) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").
      Synonyms: dialogue tag, speech tag, tag line
    2. (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
    4. (computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.
  4. (heading) Identity.
    1. (chiefly US) A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
    2. (slang) A person's name.
  5. (heading) Involving being tagged physically.
    2. (uncountable) A game, especially for children on playgrounds, in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it"; any similar game of chasing and trying to reach, touch, shoot, or label other players.
      Synonyms: (Australia) tips, (UK) it
      Hyponyms: archery tag, dart tag, freeze tag, laser tag, zombie tag
    3. (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."
  6. (heading) Signature.
    1. Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
  7. A type of cardboard.
  8. A sheep in its first year.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
See also

(children's game to avoid being "it"):

  • chasey
  • dodgeball
  • paintball

Verb

tag (third-person singular simple present tags, present participle tagging, simple past and past participle tagged)

  1. (transitive) To label (something).
  2. (transitive) To mark (something) with one's graffiti tag.
  3. (transitive) To remove dung tags from a sheep.
  4. (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.
  5. (transitive, vulgar, slang, 1990s) to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)
  6. (transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
  7. (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
    Antonym: untag
  8. (transitive, Internet) To attach the name of (a user) to a posted message so that they are linked from the post and possibly sent a notification.
  9. To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
  10. (transitive) To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
  11. (transitive) To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
  12. To fasten; to attach.
    • a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay
      they began to tag their law with the scraps of philofophy
Derived terms
  • bag and tag
  • retag
  • tag along
  • tagged (adjective)
  • tagger
  • tagging (noun)
  • tag out
Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Aramaic תגא (taga, “crown”). Doublet of taj.

Noun

tag (plural tagin or tagim)

  2. A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls, especially in Stam style.

References

  • “tag”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Further reading

  • tag (Hebrew writing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • tag (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • ATG, GTA, TGA, gat

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

  • tage (Luserna)

Etymology

From Middle High German tag, tac, from Old High German tag, tac, from Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz. Cognate with German Tag, English day.

Noun

tag m (plural taaghe)

  1. (Sette Comuni) day

Declension

Related terms

  • gabüarttag

References

  • “tag” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Crimean Gothic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dagaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”).

Noun

tag

  1. day

Derived terms

  • knauen tag

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse þak (“thatch, roof”), from Proto-Germanic *þaką, cognate with Swedish tak, English thack, thatch, German Dach, Dutch dak.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taːˀɣ/, [ˈtˢæˀ(j)]

Noun

tag n (singular definite taget, plural indefinite tage)

  1. roof
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
  • tække

Etymology 2

From Old Norse tak (“hold, grasp”), cognate with Norwegian tak, Swedish tag. Derived from the verb taka (Danish tage).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ta(ːˀ)ɣ/, [ˈtˢæˀ(j)], [ˈtˢɑw]

Noun

tag n (singular definite taget, plural indefinite tag)

  1. hold, grasp, grip
  2. stroke (with an oar or with the armes in the water)
  3. handling, control
Declension

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English tag (since 1985).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taɡ/, [ˈtˢæɡ̊]

Noun

tag n (singular definite tagget, plural indefinite tags)

  1. tag (signature of a graffiti artist)
  2. (computing) tag (markup in an electronic file)
Declension

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ta(ːˀ)/, [ˈtˢæ(ˀ)]

Verb

tag

  1. imperative of tage

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English tag.

Pronunciation

Noun

tag n (plural tags, diminutive tagje n)

  1. tag

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑɡ/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝ɡ]
  • Rhymes: -ɑɡ
  • Syllabification(key): tag
  • Hyphenation(key): tag

Noun

tag

  1. Alternative form of tagi

Declension

Further reading

  • “tag”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[5] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English tag.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taɡ/
  • Rhymes: -aɡ

Noun

tag m (plural tags)

  1. tag

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taːk/
  • Rhymes: -aːk

Verb

tag

  1. singular imperative of tagen

Hungarian

Etymology 1

Of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɒɡ]
  • Hyphenation: tag
  • Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Noun

tag (plural tagok)

  2. member
  3. Synonym of végtag (“limb”)
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English tag (“piece of markup”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛɡ]
  • Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Noun

tag (plural tagek)

  2. (computing) tag (a piece of markup representing an element in a markup language)
Declension

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English tag (“a piece of graffiti”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɛɡ]
  • Rhymes: -ɛɡ

Noun

tag (plural tagek)

  2. tag (graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist)
Declension

References

Further reading

  • tag in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Meriam

Noun

tag

  1. arm, hand

Middle High German

Noun

tag m

  1. Alternative form of tac

Declension

Old High German

Alternative forms

  • tac, tak, dac, *dag — northern

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *dag, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz, whence also Old English dæġ, Old Norse dagr, Old Dutch and Old Saxon dag, Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (dags). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taɡ/, /taɣ/

Noun

tag m (plural taga)

  1. day
    tag after tage
    day after day

Declension

Derived terms

  • *ariōtag
  • frīatag
  • frōnotag
  • tagalih
    • tagalihhen
    • tagalihhes
    • tagalihhida
  • sambaztag
  • ziestag

Descendants

  • Middle High German: tac, tag, dach
    • Alemannic German: Tag
      Alsatian: Dàà (north), Dàj (center), Dàg (south)
      Italian Walser: tag, tog, tàg
      Swabian: Dag
    • Bavarian: Da, Dåg, Doch
      Cimbrian: tak, ta, tag, tage
      Mòcheno: ta
      Udinese: tach, ti
    • Central Franconian: Daach
      Hunsrik: Daagh, taach (Wiesemann spelling system), Tóch, Tooch (Altenhofen spelling)
    • East Central German:
      Upper Saxon German: Dag
    • German: Tag
      Esperanto: tago
    • Luxembourgish: Dag, Do
    • Rhine Franconian: Tach
      Pennsylvania German: Daag
    • Transylvanian Saxon: Dåch
    • Vilamovian: taog
    • Yiddish: טאָג (tog)

References

  • Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English tag.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtak/
  • Rhymes: -ak
  • Syllabification: tag
  • Homophones: Tag, tak

Noun

tag m inan

  1. (computing) tag (piece of markup representing an element in a markup language)
    Synonym: znacznik

Declension

Further reading

  • tag in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • tag in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English tag.

Pronunciation

Noun

tag f or m (plural tags)

  1. tag (type of graffiti)
  2. an RFID chip, especially one used to unlock electronic door locks, often carried as a key fob
  3. (computing) tag (a markup instruction)
  4. (computing) tag (keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information)

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • “tag”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Sumerian

Romanization

tag

  1. Romanization of 𒋳 (tag)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse tak.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɑːɡ/

Noun

tag n

  1. a grip, a hold (of something)
  2. (figuratively, in "ta tag i (något)") to get down to dealing with (something)
  3. a stroke (with oars or an oar, a paddle, or the like; in swimming)
  4. a while (limited, often short time period)
  5. a manner of doing something (can be thought of as "grips" as a metaphor for how one goes about something)

Declension

Derived terms

  • vara i tagen

See also

  • grabba

Verb

tag

  1. imperative of taga

Alternative forms

  • ta

References

  • tag in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • tag in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • tag in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

  • ATG

Welsh

Etymology

Back-formation from tagu (“to strangle, to choke”).

Noun

tag m (plural tagau or tagion)

  1. choking, suffocation

Derived terms

  • bleidd-dag (“wolfsbane, monkshood”)
  • llindag (“suffocation; snare; dodder; thrush”)
  • tagaradr (“restharrow”)
  • tagell (“gill; jowl”)
  • tagfa (“choking, throttling; bottleneck”)
  • taglys (“bindweed”)
  • ytag (“black bindweed; buckwheat”)

Mutation

References

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

White Hmong

Etymology

See tas.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ta˧˩̤/

Noun

tag

  1. Alternative form of tas (“day segment”)

Particle

tag

  1. Alternative form of tas (“completion particle”)

Usage notes

More commonly used than tas.

References

  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎[6], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.

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