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Saga
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Appendix:Variations of "saga"
Translingual
thumb|Saga ephippigera species.
Etymology
Borrowed from mul la sāga soothsayer f.
Proper noun
1 f
genus family Tettigoniidae certain bush crickets
Hypernyms
genus ; Saginae subfamily - subfamily
Hyponyms
genus Saga pedo species (predatory bush cricket, spiked magician) - type species; Saga hellenica species - selected species
References
Saga (bush cricket)
1
Saga (Orthoptera)
mul Crickets and grasshoppers
English
+ Prefecture
+ (city)
Etymology 1
en ja - 佐賀 ^さが.
Pronunciation
sä′gäen 1952 Saga Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1623 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1623/ 2
Proper noun
en prefecture in western isl/Kyushu c/Japan Saga Prefecture
en capital city pref/Saga c/Japan.
Translations
a prefecture in Japan
Arabic: ar سَاغَا f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 佐賀 Zuǒhè
Czech: cs Saga f
Hindi: hi सागा m
Japanese: ja 佐賀県 さがけん, Saga-ken, ja 佐賀 さが, Saga
Korean: ko ^사가
Marathi: mr सागा
Polish: pl Saga f
Russian: ru Са́га f
a city in Saga Prefecture
Arabic: ar سَاغَا f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 佐賀 Zuǒhè
Czech: cs Saga f
Hindi: hi सागा m
Japanese: ja 佐賀市 さがし, Saga-shi, ja 佐賀 さが, Saga
Korean: ko ^사가
Marathi: mr सागा
Polish: pl Saga f
Russian: ru Са́га f
See also
References
Etymology 2
From en saga or its etymon en non saga.
Proper noun
en rare en unisex.
Saga Becker Saga Becker
2007, Saga McOdongo, Deadly money maker
en 2019-01-28 Dimitris Akrivos Alexandros K. Antoniou Crime, Deviance and Popular Culture: International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives Springer 9783030049126 34 Saga Norén's personal story that forms the series' sentimental narrative. As part of her strategy to develop ways to understand the personal motivations of the killers and other people around her, Saga Norén actively uses her partners
Etymology 3
Saga County
Borrowed from en bo ས་དགའ.
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Shigatse ar:Suf/Tibet c/China.
en 1982 Zhang Mingtao The Roof of the World https://archive.org/details/roofofworldexplo0000zhan/ Beijing w:Foreign Languages Press 0-8109-1558-8 81-1269 475897404 73 https://archive.org/details/roofofworldexplo0000zhan/page/73/ We saw many other striking manifestations of hydrothermal activity in the Himalayan geothermal belt. The boiling spouters of Namling County, for example, emit endless jets of water and steam; the Rugyog fumarole of Saga County sends up vapors and gases as scorching as the breath of a furnace;
en 2003 Michele Martin Music in the Sky: The Life, Art, and Teachings of the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje https://archive.org/details/musicinskylifear00mart/ w:Snow Lion Publications 1-55939-195-2 2003005516 51818596 82 https://archive.org/details/musicinskylifear00mart/page/82/ Previously, they had met a man from Saga county, not far from the Nepali border, who had given an interesting piece of information: from his place, he had seen people escaping over a mountain into Nepal.
en 2010 Jonathan Green Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy, and Escape from Tibet https://archive.org/details/murderinhighhima0000gree_s1a7/ 1st Politics w:PublicAffairs 978-1-58648-959-5 2010002571 706029625 33 https://archive.org/details/murderinhighhima0000gree_s1a7/page/33/ More likely than capture is death at the hands of Chinese border police. Killings like that of fifteen-year-old Yeshe Dundrub, shot at night in Saga County (Ch: Saga Xian) in November 1999, while fleeing with forty others to Nepal, are covered up when possible. (Dundrub, whose dream was to be a monk, died in a military hospital bed nine hours after he was shot.)
Translations
county
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 薩嘎 Sàgā
Japanese: ja
Korean: ko
Polish: pl Saga f
Further reading
Saga
en 1998 Saga Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2682 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2682/ 3
Anagrams
en aags AGAs Agas GAAs agas saag
en female given names male given names unisex given names
Icelandic
Pronunciation
is aːɣa 2
is saga
Proper noun
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is female
Declension
f
Swedish
Pronunciation
sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Saga.wav
Proper noun
c
sv female derived from the Swedish noun sv saga, used since the 19th century
Anagrams
sv aags agas