Saga

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "saga"

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Proper noun

Saga f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Tettigoniidae – certain bush crickets.

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English

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Etymology 1

From Japanese 佐賀 (Saga).

Proper noun

Saga

  1. Saga Prefecture (a prefecture in western Kyushu, Japan)
  2. The capital city of Saga Prefecture, Japan.
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Etymology 2

From saga or its etymon Old Norse saga.

Proper noun

Saga

  1. (rare) A unisex given name.
    Saga Becker
    • 2007, Saga McOdongo, Deadly money maker

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Tibetan ས་དགའ (sa dga').

Proper noun

Saga

  1. A county of Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
    • 2003, Michele Martin, Music in the Sky: The Life, Art, and Teachings of the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje‎, 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, 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.)
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Pronunciation

Proper noun

Saga f

  1. a female given name

Declension

declension of Saga
f-w1 singular
indefinite
nominative Saga
accusative Sögu
dative Sögu
genitive Sögu

Swedish

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Proper noun

Saga c (genitive Sagas)

  1. a female given name derived from the Swedish noun saga, used since the 19th century

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