Saga
See also: Appendix:Variations of "saga"
Translingual
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin sāga f (“soothsayer”).
Proper noun
editSaga f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Tettigoniidae – certain bush crickets.
Hypernyms
edit- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Polyneoptera – superorder; Orthoptera – order; Ensifera - suborder; Tettigoniidea - infraorder; Tettigonioidea - superfamily; Tettigoniidae - family; Saginae - subfamily
Hyponyms
edit- (genus): Saga pedo (predatory bush cricket, spiked magician) - type species; Saga hellenica - selected species
References
edit- Saga (bush cricket) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Saga on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Saga (Orthoptera) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
English
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from Japanese 佐賀 (Saga).
Proper noun
editSaga
- Saga Prefecture (a prefecture in western Kyushu, Japan)
- The capital city of Saga Prefecture, Japan.
Translations
edita prefecture in Japan
a city in Saga Prefecture
See also
edit- (prefectures of Japan) Japan; Aichi, Akita, Aomori, Chiba, Ehime, Fukui, Fukuoka, Fukushima, Gifu, Gunma, Hiroshima, Hokkaidō, Hyōgo, Ibaraki, Ishikawa, Iwate, Kagawa, Kagoshima, Kanagawa, Kōchi, Kumamoto, Kyoto, Mie, Miyagi, Miyazaki, Nagano, Nagasaki, Nara, Niigata, Ōita, Okayama, Okinawa, Osaka, Saga, Saitama, Shiga, Shimane, Shizuoka, Tochigi, Tokushima, Tokyo, Tottori, Toyama, Wakayama, Yamagata, Yamaguchi, Yamanashi
Etymology 2
editFrom saga or its etymon Old Norse saga.
Proper noun
editSaga
- (rare) A unisex given name.
- 2007, Saga McOdongo, Deadly money maker
- 2019 January 28, Dimitris Akrivos, Alexandros K. Antoniou, Crime, Deviance and Popular Culture: International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Springer, →ISBN, page 34:
- […] Saga Norén's personal story that forms the series' sentimental narrative. As part of her strategy to develop ways to understand the personal motivations of the killers and other people around her, Saga Norén actively uses her partners […]
Etymology 3
editBorrowed from Tibetan ས་དགའ (sa dga').
Proper noun
editSaga
- A county of Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
- 1982, Zhang Mingtao, The Roof of the World[1], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 73:
- We saw many other striking manifestations of hydrothermal activity in the Himalayan geothermal belt. The boiling spouters of Namling County, for example, emit endless jets of water and steam; the Rugyog fumarole of Saga County sends up vapors and gases as scorching as the breath of a furnace; […]
- 2003, Michele Martin, Music in the Sky: The Life, Art, and Teachings of the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje[2], Snow Lion Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 82:
- Previously, they had met a man from Saga county, not far from the Nepali border, who had given an interesting piece of information: from his place, he had seen people escaping over a mountain into Nepal.
- 2010, Jonathan Green, Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy, and Escape from Tibet[3], 1st edition (Politics), PublicAffairs, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 33:
- More likely than capture is death at the hands of Chinese border police. Killings like that of fifteen-year-old Yeshe Dundrub, shot at night in Saga County (Ch: Saga Xian) in November 1999, while fleeing with forty others to Nepal, are covered up when possible. (Dundrub, whose dream was to be a monk, died in a military hospital bed nine hours after he was shot.)
Translations
editcounty
Further reading
edit- Saga at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Saga”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2682, column 3
Anagrams
editIcelandic
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editSaga f (proper noun, genitive singular Sögu)
- a female given name
Declension
editSwedish
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Proper noun
editSaga c (genitive Sagas)
- a female given name derived from the Swedish noun saga, used since the 19th century
Anagrams
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- en:Saga Prefecture
- en:Prefectures of Japan
- en:Places in Japan
- en:Cities in Saga Prefecture
- en:Cities in Japan
- en:Prefectural capitals of Japan
- en:Places in Saga Prefecture
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- en:Counties of China
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