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English
Etymology
From Middle English mages (plurale tantum), from Latin magus , from Ancient Greek Μάγος ( Mágos ) , from the hapax Old Persian 𐎶𐎦𐎢𐏁 ( m-gu-u-š /maguš/ ) . Doublet of magus .
Pronunciation
Noun
mage (plural magi or mages )
( chiefly fantasy ) A magician , wizard , sorcerer , witch , warlock or mystic .
( obsolete ) Synonym of magus : a Zoroastrian priest .
c. 1790 , Edward Gibbon , On the Position of the Meridional Line, and the supposed Circumnavigation of Africa by the Ancients ; republished as The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq. , volume 5, 1814 , pages 186–87 :While the liberality of Gelo and his brother Hiero atracted every stranger who could amuse or instruct the court of Syracuse, a Persian Mage related to the former of those princes that he himself had circumnavigated the whole continent of Africa.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
magician, wizard or sorcerer
Arabic: سَاحِر m ( sāḥir ) , مَجُوس m ( majūs )
Azerbaijani:
Abjad: مغ ( mægh, mugh )
Roman: maq
Bulgarian: магьосник (bg) m ( magjosnik )
Catalan: mag (ca) m , màgic (ca) m , fetiller (ca) m
Chinese: 法師 / 法师 (zh) ( fǎshī ) , 術士 / 术士 (zh) ( shùshì )
Czech: mág (cs) m , čaroděj (cs) m , kouzelník (cs) m
Danish: mager , magiker , troldmand
Dutch: magiër (nl) m , tovenaar (nl) m
Finnish: maagi (fi) , velho (fi)
French: mage (fr) m
Georgian: მაგი ( magi ) , ჯადოქარი ( ǯadokari ) , გრძნეული ( grʒneuli )
German: Magier (de) m , Magierin (de) f , Zauberer (de) m , Zauberin (de) f , Zaubrer (de) m , Zaubrerin (de) f
Greek:
Ancient Greek: μάγος m ( mágos )
Hungarian: varázsló (hu) , mágus (hu)
Icelandic: galdramaður (is) m
Ido: mago (io) , magi (io)
Italian: magio
Latin: magus m , maga f
Lithuanian: magas (lt) m
Macedonian: маг m ( mag )
Malay: ahli sihir
Persian: مجوسی (fa) ( majusi )
Polish: mag (pl) m , czarodziej (pl) m
Portuguese: mago (pt) m , maga (pt) f
Russian: маг (ru) m ( mag ) , волхв (ru) m ( volxv )
Serbo-Croatian: čarobnjak (sh) m , mag (sh) m
Slovene: mag m
Spanish: mago (es) m , hechicero (es) m
Swedish: trollkarl (sv) c , magiker (sv) c
Turkish: büyücü (tr) , sihirbaz (tr) , efsuncu
Ukrainian: маг (uk) m ( mah )
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Noun
mage
plural of maag
Danish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Norse maki , from Proto-Germanic *makô , *gamakô , cognate with English match .
Noun
mage c (singular definite magen , plural indefinite mager )
fellow ( one of a pair, or of two things used together )
mate ( of an animal )
husband , wife , spouse
match , equal
Declension
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Further reading
Adjective
mage (uninflected )
( dated ) matching
Synonym: umage
1895 , Magdalene Thoresen, Livsluft: fortaellinger , page 2:Den store Kjærlighed, som forenede dem til et i Sandhed mage Par, var vokset i jævn og kraftig Stigning fra Medfølelse til Respekt, fra den til Beundring - og da var der jo ikke ret langt til Kjærligheden! The great love that united them into a truly well-fitting couple, had grown at an even and strong rate from sympathy to respect, from that to admiration - and then there was no far distance to love!
2009 , Peter Michael Lauritzen, Grund og bølge: en litterær, tids- og åndshistorisk studie af Erik Aalbæk Jensens forfatterskab , Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN , page 469 :De er vel tilsyneladende, med hele rigdommens selvsikkerhed, et mere mage par, end den umage Erling [ …] ville være sammen med Hedvig. They are seemingly, with all the confidence of wealth, a more similar pair, than the dissimilar Erling would be with Hedvig.
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Etymology 2
From Middle Low German māken , from Old Saxon makōn , from Proto-West Germanic *makōn , cognate with English make , German machen , Dutch maken . Old Norse maka , Norwegian make , Swedish maka are also borrowed from Low German. The verb is derived from the adjective Proto-Germanic *makaz ( “ suitable ” ) .
Verb
mage (imperative mag , infinitive at mage , present tense mager , past tense magede , perfect tense har maget )
to arrange
Further reading
Dutch Low Saxon
Etymology
From Old Saxon mago , from Proto-West Germanic *magō , from Proto-Germanic *magô . Cognate with Dutch maag ( “ stomach ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
mage f (genitive magen , dative magen , accusative mage , plural magen )
stomach
Usage notes
The plural form stays the same in every case .
French
Etymology
From Latin magus .
Pronunciation
Noun
mage m (plural mages )
specialist in occult sciences foretelling the future
Après une violente dispute avec son mari, elle consulte un mage qui lui prédit un sombre avenir. After a bitter argument with her husband, she consults a fortune-teller , who predicts a gloomy future for her.
( obsolete ) magus : priest of the Zoroastrian religion, of the Persians and Medes
wise man (one of the three wise men that came from the East to Bethlehem for Jesus Christ)
l’adoration des mages the Adoration of the Magi
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Anagrams
Friulian
Noun
mage ? (plural ? )
stomach
Japanese
Romanization
mage
Rōmaji transcription of まげ
Latin
Noun
mage
vocative singular of magus
References
“mage ”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879 ) A Latin Dictionary , Oxford: Clarendon Press
“mage ”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891 ) An Elementary Latin Dictionary , New York: Harper & Brothers
Middle Dutch
Etymology 1
From Old Dutch *mago , from Proto-West Germanic *magō .
Noun
māge f or m
stomach
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template .
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
mâge
inflection of mâech :
dative singular
nominative / accusative / dative plural
Further reading
Middle Low German
Etymology
From Old Saxon mago , from Proto-West Germanic *magō . Cognate with German Magen ( “ stomach ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
māge f (genitive magen , dative magen , accusative mage , plural magen )
stomach
Usage notes
The plural form stays the same in every case .
Synonyms
lif (body , figurative for belly )
buk (belly, abdomen )
Descendants
Low German:
Plautdietsch: Moag
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse magi , from Proto-Germanic *magô .
Noun
mage m (definite singular magen , indefinite plural mager , definite plural magene )
abdomen , belly , stomach
Synonyms
Derived terms
References
“mage” in The Bokmål Dictionary .
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse magi , from Proto-Germanic *magô . The verb is derived from the noun.
Pronunciation
Noun
mage m (definite singular magen , indefinite plural magar , definite plural magane )
abdomen , belly , stomach
Synonyms
Derived terms
Verb
mage (present tense magar , past tense maga , past participle maga , passive infinitive magast , present participle magande , imperative mage /mag )
( transitive ) to gut
Synonym: sløye
( transitive ) to regurgitate ( to cough up from the gut to feed its young , as an animal or bird does. )
( intransitive or reflexive , rare ) to move by crawling with one's belly to the floor or ground
maga ( a- or split infinitive )
References
“mage” in The Nynorsk Dictionary .
Anagrams
Old English
Pronunciation
Adjective
mage
inflection of maga :
nominative feminine / neuter singular
accusative neuter singular
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish maghi , from Old Norse magi , from Proto-Germanic *magô , from Proto-Indo-European *mak- , *maks- .
Pronunciation
Noun
mage c
stomach
abdomen , belly ( body part between thorax and pelvis )
Synonyms: buk , abdomen , ( colloquial ) kagge
(in idiomatic expressions) insolence , gall , cheek
Ni hade alltså mage att komma oinbjudna? So you had the gall to come uninvited?
Declension
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References
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West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian maga , from Proto-West Germanic *magō .
Noun
mage c (plural magen , diminutive maachje )
stomach
Further reading
“mage ”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011