warg

Learned borrowing from Old Norse vargr (“wolf”), reintroduced by J. R. R. Tolkien; compare also Old English wearg.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɑːɡ/, /ˈwɔːɡ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwoɹɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɡ, -ɔːɡ

warg (plural wargs)

1. (fantasy, mythology) A type of particularly wild or hostile wolf.
   • 1937 September 21, J R R Tolkien, “Out of the Frying-pan into the Fire”, in The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published February 1966 (August 1967 printing), →OCLC, page 105:

     But even the wild Wargs (for so the evil wolves over the Edge of the Wild were named) cannot climb trees. […] Every now and then all the Wargs in the circle would answer their grey chief all together, and their dreadful clamour almost made the hobbit fall out of his pine-tree.

   • 1993, jbatka, “Multiple colors for PC compatible”, in rec.hack (Usenet):

     My question is do all of the executable versions for PC compatibles have the color option enabled? If so, what am I missing to not get say yellow for a hill orc, grey for a goblin, white for my pet, red for a wolf, brown for a warg, etc?

   • 1999, George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 462:

     He'd bought a ton of silver to forge magic swords that would slay the Stark wargs.

   • 2007, Stephen O. Glosecki, Myth in Northwest Europe:

     The monsters are identified not as trolls, a word apparently not available in English at the time, but (among other things) as wargs, whatever that means; Grendel is called a heoro-wearh at line 1267 and his mother a grund-wyrgen at line 1518.

• dire wolf

• GAWR, Garw

From Old Norse vargr, from Proto-Germanic *wargaz, from Proto-Indo-European *werǵʰ-.

warg m

1. wolf

stem=strong ''a''-stem

• IPA^(key): /ˈvark/
• Rhymes: -ark
• Syllabification: warg
• Homophone: wark

warg f

1. genitive plural of warga