jag

jag

See also: Jag and JAG

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: jăg, IPA^(key): /d͡ʒæɡ/

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• Rhymes: -æɡ

Etymology 1

The noun is from late Middle English jagge, the verb is from jaggen.

Noun

jag (plural jags)

1. A sharp projection.
   • 1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “(please specify the book number)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], OCLC 12997447:

     garments thus beset with long jagges and pursles

   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, lines 323-7,

     The thick black cloud was cleft, and still / The Moon was at its side; / Like waters shot from some high crag, / The lightning fell with never a jag, / A river steep and wide.

   • 1909, Arthur Symons, London: A Book of Aspects, self-published, p. 3,

     The especial beauty of London is the Thames, and the Thames is so wonderful because the mist is always changing its shapes and colours, always making its light mysterious, and building palaces of cloud out of mere Parliament Houses with their jags and turrets.

   • 1956, C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle, Collins, 1998, Chapter 16,

     Even if you hadn’t been drowned, you would have been smashed to pieces by the terrible weight of water against the countless jags of rock.

2. A part broken off; a fragment.
   • 1693, John Hacket, Scrinia Reserata

     some Jaggs will ſuffice to be recited

   • 1855, Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" in Leaves of Grass, page 56:

     I depart as air .... I shake my white locks at the runway sun, / I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it in lacy jags.

3. A flap, a tear in a clothing
4. (botany) A cleft or division.
5. (Scotland) A medical injection, a jab.
6. (Western Pennsylvania, dialectal) A thorn from a bush (see jaggerbush).
7. (Western Pennsylvania, dialectal, derogatory) Ellipsis of jagoff.: An irritating, inept, or repugnant person.

Derived terms

• jagged
• jagger

Translations

A sharp projection

Bulgarian: зъбец (bg) m (zǎbec) Finnish: terävä ulkonema, kärki (fi) Ukrainian: зубець (uk) m (zubecʹ), виступ (uk) m (vystup)

A tear in a clothing

Finnish: palkeenkieli, repeämä (fi)

A part broken off

Bulgarian: фрагмент (bg) m (fragment)

Verb

jag (third-person singular simple present jags, present participle jagging, simple past and past participle jagged)

1. To cut unevenly.
2. (Western Pennsylvania) To tease.

Translations

To cut unevenly

Bulgarian: съдирам (bg) (sǎdiram) Ukrainian: кремсати (uk) (kremsaty), криво різати (uk) (kryvo rizaty); зазублювати (uk) (zazubljuvaty), робити зазублини (uk) (robyty zazublyny)

Etymology 2

Circa 1597; originally "load of broom or furze", variant of British English dialectal chag (“tree branch; branch of broom or furze”), from Old English ċeacga (“broom, furze”), from Proto-Germanic *kagô (compare dialectal German Kag (“stump, cabbage, stalk”), Swedish dialect kage (“stumps”), Norwegian dialect kage (“low bush”), of unknown origin.

Noun

jag (plural jags)

1. Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful.
2. A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.
   • 1919 August, P. G. Wodehouse, “Prohibition and the Drama”, in Vanity Fair, page 21:

     Consider, the pessimists argue, the vast number of plays which it is only possible to sit through with the assistance of what Ella Wheeler Wilcox would call a mild jag.

   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, page 88:

     ‘People who spend their money for second-hand sex jags are as nervous as dowagers who can't find the rest-room.’

3. A fit, spell, outburst.
   • 1985, Peter De Vries, The Prick of Noon, Penguin, Chapter 9, p. 165,

     Of course she did not lose her sense of humor (not necessarily to be confused with her laughing fits, which are crying jags turned inside out according to the shrinks).

   • 1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, Simon & Schuster, 2007, Part 4, Chapter 1, p. 396,

     Miles had a cold, he always had a cold, it went unnoticed, went without saying, he had coughing jags and slightly woozy eyes, completely unremarked by people who knew him […]

4. A one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.
5. (Scotland, archaic) A leather bag or wallet; (in the plural) saddlebags.

Derived terms

• get a jag on
• have a jag on

Translations

binge or overindulgence

Bulgarian: запой (bg) m (zapoj) Finnish: tuuri (fi), kohtaus (fi) Georgian: შვერილი (šverili), ქონგური (konguri) Italian: orgia (it) f, bisboccia (it) f, baldoria (it) f, sregolatezza (it) f Russian: кутёж (ru) (kutjóž)

one-horse cart load

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German: Zahn (de) m, Zacke (de) f, Kerbe (de) f, Auszackung f, Riss (de) m

See also

• Jag
• JAG

Anagrams

• AGJ, JGA, gaj

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch jacht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jaχ/

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Noun

jag (plural jagte)

1. hunt, pursuit
2. yacht

Verb

jag (present jag, present participle jagtende, past participle gejag)

1. to hunt

Related terms

• jaag

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Dalmatian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

jag

1. needle

References

• Bartoli, Matteo Giulio (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jaːɡ/, [jæjˀ]

Noun

jag n (singular definite jaget, plural indefinite jag)

1. hurry, rush
2. twinge, (a sudden sharp pain; a darting local pain of momentary continuance; as, a twinge in the arm or side)

Inflection

Declension of jag

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	jag	jaget	jag	jagene
genitive	jags	jagets	jags	jagenes

Verb

jag

1. imperative of jage

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German

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -aːk

Verb

jag

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

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Livonian

Alternative forms

• jagū
• (Courland) ja'g

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *jako.

Noun

jag

1. part

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Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

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Verb

jag

1. imperative of jage

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

jag

1. imperative of jaga

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Romani

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀅𑀕𑁆𑀕𑀺 (aggi), from Ashokan Prakrit 𑀅𑀕𑀺 (agi), from Sanskrit अग्नि (agni, “fire”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hagnís, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥gʷnis. Cognate with Hindi आग (āg), Nepali आगो (āgo), Gujarati આગ (āga), and Punjabi ਅੱਗ (agga).

Noun

jag f inan (nominative plural jaga)

1. fire

Derived terms

• jagalo
• jagdino
• jagumni

 

Descendants

• Kalo Finnish Romani: jang

References

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “agní1”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 3
• Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “jag”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 127
• Marcel Courthiade (2009), “i/e jag, -a- ʒ. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (in Hungarian; English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 179
• Yūsuke Sumi (2018), “jag”, in ニューエクスプレス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, →ISBN, pages 58-59

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Swedish

Alternative forms

Dialects

• je (Jamska)
• ji (Kalixmål)
• jö (Lulemål)
• i (Pitemål)

Etymology

From Old Swedish iak, jæk, from Old Norse jak (compare Old West Norse ek), from Proto-Norse ᛖᚲ (ek), from Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɑː(ɡ)/, [jɒ̜ː(ɡ)]

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Pronoun

jag

1. I

   Jag läser en bok.

   I'm reading a book.

   Bara du och jag.

   Just you and I.

Declension

Swedish personal pronouns

Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive
					common	neuter	plural
singular	first	—	jag	mig, mej3	min	mitt	mina
	second	—	du	dig, dej3	din	ditt	dina
	third	masculine (person)	han	honom, han2, en5	hans
		feminine (person)	hon	henne, na5	hennes
		gender-neutral (person)1	hen	hen, henom7	hens
		common (noun)	den	den	dess
		neuter (noun)	det	det	dess
		indefinite	man or en4	en	ens
		reflexive	—	sig, sej3	sin	sitt	sina
plural	first	—	vi	oss	vår, våran2	vårt, vårat2	våra
	second	—	ni	er	er, eran2, ers6	ert, erat2	era
		archaic	I	eder	eder, eders6	edert	edra
	third	—	de, dom3	dem, dom3	deras
		reflexive	—	sig, sej3	sin	sitt	sina

¹Neologism. Usage has increased since 2010, and has gained widespread acceptance today.

²Informal

³Colloquial pronunciation spelling.

⁴Dialectal, also used lately as an alternative to man, to avoid association to the male gender.

⁵Informal, somewhat dialectal

⁶Formal address

⁷Discouraged by the Swedish Language Council

Noun

jag n

1. (psychology) I, self

Declension

Declension of jag
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	jag	jaget	—	—
Genitive	jags	jagets	—	—

Related terms

• jagkänsla
• överjag

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Yabong

Noun

jag

1. water

Further reading

• J. Bullock, R. Gray, H. Paris, D. Pfantz, D. Richardson, A Sociolinguistic Survey of the Yabong, Migum, Nekgini, and Neko (2016)

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Zaniza Zapotec

Noun

jag

1. tree