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nag

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Naga Pidgin.

Symbol

nag

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Naga Pidgin.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Naga Pidgin terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnæɡ/
• (North American also) IPA^(key): /neɪɡ/, IPA^(key): /nɛɡ/
• Rhymes: -æɡ
• Homophone: Knagg

Etymology 1

From Middle English nagg, nage, nagge (“horse, small riding horse, pony”), cognate with Dutch negge, neg (“horse”), German Nickel (“small horse”). Perhaps related to English neigh.

Noun

nag (plural nags)

1. A small horse; a pony.
3. An old, useless horse.

   Synonyms: (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal, archaic) aver, dobbin, hack, jade, plug
4. (obsolete, derogatory) A paramour.

Coordinate terms

• (old useless horse): bum (racing)

Derived terms

• shanks' nag

Translations

Etymology 2

Probably from a North Germanic source; compare Swedish nagga (“to gnaw, grumble”), Danish nage (“to nag, bother”), Icelandic nagga (“to complain”).

Compare typologically fret, Bulgarian глождя (gloždja), Russian глода́ть (glodátʹ), грызть (gryztʹ), по́едом есть (pójedom jestʹ), е́дкий (jédkij).

Verb

nag (third-person singular simple present nags, present participle nagging, simple past and past participle nagged)

1. (ambitransitive) To repeatedly remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary matters.

   Anyone would think that I nagged at you, Amanda! (From Amanda! by Robin Klein)

2. To bother with persistent thoughts or memories.
3. To bother or disturb persistently in any way.

   a nagging pain in his left knee

   a nagging north wind

Synonyms

• (continually remind or complain): ride
• (bother with thoughts or memories): haunt
• (persistently bother or annoy): worry

Derived terms

• nag screen
• nagware

Related terms

• gnaw

Translations

Noun

nag (plural nags)

1. Someone or something that nags.
2. A repeated complaint or reminder.
3. A persistent, bothersome thought or worry.

Synonyms

• (person who nags): See Thesaurus:shrew

Derived terms

• nagless

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

nag

1. Misspelling of knack.

References

• “nag”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “nag”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

See also

• nag champa

Anagrams

• AGN, ANG, GAN, GNA, GaN, Gan, NGA, gan

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch nacht (“night”), from Middle Dutch nacht, from Old Dutch naht, from Proto-Germanic *nahts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naχ/

Noun

nag (plural nagte)

1. The period between sunset and sunrise, when the sky is dark; night.
2. (countable) darkness.

Colán

Noun

nag

1. moon

Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aː
• Rhymes: -aːɡ

Noun

nag n (singular definite naget, not used in plural form)

1. grudge

Derived terms

• bære nag

Verb

nag

1. imperative of nage

Gaikundi

Noun

nag

1. sago

Further reading

• Gaikundi-Ontena Organised Phonology Data (2011)

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aːk

Verb

nag

1. singular imperative of nagen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of nagen

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *nagъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *nōˀgás, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nogʷós (“naked”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nâːɡ/

Adjective

nȃg (Cyrillic spelling на̑г, definite nȃgī)

1. naked

   Synonyms: gȏl, gȏ

Declension

Derived terms

• nágōst

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nagъ, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nogʷós (“naked”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /náːk/

Adjective

nȃg (not comparable)

1. naked

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• gòl (more formal)

Derived terms

• nágost

Further reading

• “nag”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *nekʷe, a combination of Proto-Indo-European *né (negative particle) and *-kʷe (“and”); compare Latin neque.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naɡ/

Particle

nag

1. not (in answers and tag questions)

Usage notes

Used before a vowel, but not when that vowel has resulted from the soft mutation of g. Thus na + gallan becomes na allan, not *nag allan.

Alternative forms

• na (used before a consonant)

White Hmong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na˧˩̤/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Hmong *m-noŋᶜ (“rain”); likely related to Proto-Mien *mbluŋᶜ (“id”) and Proto-Mon-Khmer *pliɲ ~ *[p]liiɲ ~ *[p]liəɲ (“sky”), whence Khmer ភ្លៀង (phliəng, “id”).

Noun

nag (classifier: kob (for showers), phau (for a period of rain))

1. rain

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

nag

1. used to denote days different from today:
   1. short for nag hmo (“yesterday”)
   2. used in nag kis (“the day after tomorrow”)

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 135.

Wolof

Etymology

Cognate with Fula nagge.

Noun

nag (definite form nag wi)

1. cow, cattle

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *naːkᴰ (“otter”). Cognate with Thai นาก (nâak), Lao ນາກ (nāk), Tai Dam ꪙꪱꪀ, Tày nạc, Ahom 𑜃𑜀𑜫 (nak).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /naːk˧/
• Tone numbers: nak⁸
• Hyphenation: nag

Noun

nag (Sawndip forms 𤜽 or 纳 or 𭸐 or 𭸢 or 那, 1957–1982 spelling nag)

1. otter

   Synonym: duznag

Source: wiktionary.org