See also: naga, nagą, någå, Nāga, and Naga

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Noun

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nāga (plural nāgas)

  1. (scholarly) Alternative spelling of naga

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Old Javanese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Sanskrit नाग (nāga, naga), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)nog-ó-s (with *a regularly lengthened by Brugmann's law), from *(s)neg- (to crawl; a creeping thing).

Noun

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nāga

  1. naga, serpent-demon.
  2. one of the five airs of the human body (which is expelled by eructation).
Descendants
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  • > Javanese: ꦤꦒ (naga) (inherited)
  • Balinese: ᬦᬵᬕ (naga)

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Sanskrit नाग (nāga, elephant), from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (naked), i.e. “the hairless one”.

Noun

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nāga

  1. elephant
    Synonyms: aliman, asti, dipak, dwipa, dwipak, dwipāṅga, dwipendra, dwirada, dwiradarāja, dwirĕge, gaja, gajah, haliman, hasti, ibha, kuñjara, liman, mantĕṅga, mātaṅga, matĕṅga, nāga, pataṅgi, sāmaja, tuṅgaṅan, wāhana, wāraṇa
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Further reading

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  • "nāga" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Pali

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Sanskrit नाग (nāga).

Noun

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nāga m[1]

  1. serpent
  2. cobra
  3. naga, dragon
  4. elephant
    • 2006, The First Book in the Suttanta-Pitaka: Dīgha-Nikāya (I)[1], page 88:
      11. අථ ඛො රාජා මාගධො අජාතසත‍්තු වෙදෙහිපුත‍්තො යාවතිකා නාගස‍්ස භූමි නාගෙන ගන‍්ත්‍වා නාගා පච‍්චොරොහිත්‍වා පත‍්තිකො ‘ව යෙන මණ‍්ඩලමාළස‍්ස ද‍්වාරං තෙනුපසඞ‍්කමි.
      11. atha kho rājā māgadho ajātasattu vedehiputto yāvatikā nāgassa bhūmi nāgena gantvā nāgā paccorohitvā pattiko ’va yena maṇḍalamāḷassa dvāraṃ tenupasaṅkami.
      11. And then indeed the king of Magadha, Ajatashatru, son of the woman from Videha, went by elephant as far as there was room for an elephant, then dismounted from the elephant, and then went on only on foot to where the door of the pavilion was.
  5. ironwood tree
  6. chief

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References

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  1. ^ Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875, page 255.