mager

From Old Danish maghær, from Old Norse magr (“thin, meager”), from Proto-Germanic *magraz, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós.

• IPA^(key): , ,
• Rhymes: -aːˀər

mager

1. lean
2. thin, spare, skinny, scrawny
3. poor, meagre

From Latin magus.

• IPA^(key): , ,

mager c (singular definite mageren, plural indefinite magere)

1. mage

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): ,
• Rhymes: -aːər

mager c

1. indefinite plural of mage

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): ,
• Rhymes: -aːər

mager

1. present of mage

From Middle Dutch mager, from Old Dutch *magar, from Proto-Germanic *magraz, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Cognate with German, Danish, and Swedish mager, etc., and with Latin macer, Italian magro and English meager through Indo-European.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.ɣər/

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• Hyphenation: ma‧ger
• Rhymes: -aːɣər

mager (comparative magerder, superlative magerst)

1. lean, (nearly) without fat
2. meager, skinny, thin
3. poor, pitiful, skim

   Zo'n mager loon betekent magere melk en mager vertier!

   Such meager wages mean skimmed milk and poor entertainment!

4. low-fat

   Synonym: vetarm

5. infertile (said of soil); weak

• rijk
• vet

• magerheid, magerte
• magerman m
• magertjes
• graatmager
• vermageren
• Magere Hein m

• Afrikaans: maer
• Berbice Creole Dutch: manggri
• Negerhollands: mager
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: mager
• → Saramaccan: mángru
• → Sranan Tongo: mangri

• marge

From Old High German magar, from Proto-Germanic *magraz, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Cognate with Dutch mager, Danish mager, Norwegian Bokmål mager, Norwegian Nynorsk mager, Swedish mager, etc., and with English meagre through Indo-European.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaːɡɐ/

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• Hyphenation: ma‧ger

mager (strong nominative masculine singular magerer or (rare) magrer, not comparable)

1. lean, without fat
2. meager, skinny

• Magersucht
• Magermilch
• Magerstufe
• abmagern

• “mager” in Duden online
• “mager” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “mager”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Blend of malas (“lazy”) +‎ gerak (“move”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɡər/
• Hyphenation: ma‧gêr

magêr (superlative termager)

1. (slang) lazy.

   Synonym: malas

From Old Norse magr (“thin, meager”), from Proto-Germanic *magraz, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós.

mager (neuter singular magert, definite singular and plural magre)

1. meager (US) or meagre (UK), lean

   magert kjøtt - lean meat

• utmagret

mager m

1. indefinite plural of mage

• “mager” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse magr (“thin, meager”), from Proto-Germanic *magraz, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːɡɛr/

mager (neuter singular magert, definite singular and plural magre)

1. thin, emaciated, scrawny (having little fat on one's body)
2. meagre (UK) or meager (US)

• magrast

• “mager” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Swedish magher, from Old Norse magr (“thin, meager”), from Proto-Germanic *magraz, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós.

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mager (comparative magrare, superlative magrast)

1. lean, without fat
2. meager, skinny
3. meager, infertile, barren
   • 1747–62, Olof von Dalin, Svea rikes historia :

     Det war den tidens smak: och ju magrare et land fans, ju snarare skickade det nya folksvärmar ifrån sig.

• magra
• avmagra
• magert

• magre

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɡer/

mager

1. a twig

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics