nāga

See also: naga, nagą, någå, Nāga, and Naga

English

Noun

nāga (plural nāgas)

1. (scholarly) Alternative spelling of naga

Anagrams

• Agan, GNAA

Old Javanese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -ɡa
• Homophone: naga
• Hyphenation: nā‧ga

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Sanskrit नाग (nāga, “naga”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)nog-ó-s (with *a regularly lengthened by Brugmann's law), from *(s)neg- (“to crawl; a creeping thing”).

Noun

nāga

1. naga, serpent-demon.
2. one of the five airs of the human body (which is expelled by eructation).

Descendants

• > Javanese: ꦤꦒ (naga) (inherited)
• → Balinese: ᬦᬵᬕ (naga)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Sanskrit नाग (nāga, “elephant”), from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“naked”), i.e. “the hairless one”.

Noun

nāga

1. elephant

   Synonyms: aliman, asti, dipak, dwipa, dwipak, dwipāṅga, dwipendra, dwirada, dwiradarāja, dwirĕge, gaja, gajah, haliman, hasti, ibha, kuñjara, liman, mantĕṅga, mātaṅga, matĕṅga, nāga, pataṅgi, sāmaja, tuṅgaṅan, wāhana, wāraṇa

Descendants

• > Javanese: ꦤꦒ (naga) (inherited)

Further reading

• "nāga" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀦𑀸𑀕 (Brahmi script)
• नाग (Devanagari script)
• নাগ (Bengali script)
• නාග (Sinhalese script)
• နာဂ or ၼႃၷ (Burmese script)
• นาค or นาคะ (Thai script)
• ᨶᩣᨣ (Tai Tham script)
• ນາຄ or ນາຄະ (Lao script)
• នាគ (Khmer script)
• 𑄚𑄂𑄉 (Chakma script)

Etymology

From Sanskrit नाग (nāga).

Noun

nāga m

1. serpent
2. cobra
3. naga, dragon
4. elephant
   • 2006, The First Book in the Suttanta-Pitaka: Dīgha-Nikāya (I)‎^[1], page 88:

     11. අථ ඛො රාජා මාගධො අජාතසත‍්තු වෙදෙහිපුත‍්තො යාවතිකා නාගස‍්ස භූමි නාගෙන ගන‍්ත්‍වා නාගා පච‍්චොරොහිත්‍වා පත‍්තිකො ‘ව යෙන මණ‍්ඩලමාළස‍්ස ද‍්වාරං තෙනුපසඞ‍්කමි.

     11. atha kho rājā māgadho ajātasattu vedehiputto yāvatikā nāgassa bhūmi nāgena gantvā nāgā paccorohitvā pattiko ’va yena maṇḍalamāḷassa dvāraṃ tenupasaṅkami.

     11. And then indeed the king of Magadha, Ajatashatru, son of the woman from Videha, went by elephant as far as there was room for an elephant, then dismounted from the elephant, and then went on only on foot to where the door of the pavilion was.

5. ironwood tree
6. chief

Declension

Declension table of "nāga" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	nāgo	nāgā
Accusative (second)	nāgaṃ	nāge
Instrumental (third)	nāgena	nāgehi or nāgebhi
Dative (fourth)	nāgassa or nāgāya or nāgatthaṃ	nāgānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	nāgasmā or nāgamhā or nāgā	nāgehi or nāgebhi
Genitive (sixth)	nāgassa	nāgānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	nāgasmiṃ or nāgamhi or nāge	nāgesu
Vocative (calling)	nāga	nāgā