mage

See also: Mage, Magé, magë, and måge

English

Etymology

From Middle English mages (plurale tantum), from Latin magus. Doublet of magus.

Pronunciation

enPR: māj, IPA^(key): /meɪd͡ʒ/
Audio (UK) (file)
Rhymes: -eɪd͡ʒ

Noun

mage (plural magi or mages)

(chiefly fantasy) A magician, wizard or sorcerer.
(obsolete) Synonym of magus: a Zoroastrian priest.
- c. 1790, Edward Gibbon, On the Position of the Meridional Line, and the supposed Circumnavigation of Africa by the Ancients; republished as The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq. […] , volume 5, 1814, pages 186–87:
  While the liberality of Gelo and his brother Hiero atracted every stranger who could amuse or instruct the court of Syracuse, a Persian Mage related to the former of those princes that he himself had circumnavigated the whole continent of Africa.

Derived terms

archmage

Translations

magician, wizard or sorcerer

Arabic: سَاحِر‎ m (sāḥir), مَجُوس‎ m (majūs)
Bulgarian: магьосник (bg) m (magjosnik)
Catalan: mag (ca) m, màgic (ca) m, fetiller (ca) m
Czech: mág (cs) m, čaroděj (cs) m, kouzelník (cs) m
Danish: mager, magiker, troldmand
Finnish: maagi (fi), velho (fi)
German: Magier (de) m, Magierin (de) f, Zauberer (de) m, Zauberin (de) f, Zaubrer (de) m, Zaubrerin (de) f
Greek:
Ancient Greek: μάγος m (mágos)
Hungarian: varázsló (hu), mágus (hu)
Icelandic: galdramaður (is) m
Ido: mago (io), magi (io)
Italian: magio
Latin: magus m, maga f
Lithuanian: magas (lt) m
Macedonian: маг m (mag)
Persian: مجوسی‎ (fa) (majūsī)
Polish: mag (pl) m, czarodziej (pl) m
Portuguese: mago (pt) m, maga (pt) f
Russian: маг (ru) m (mag), волхв (ru) m (volxv)
Serbo-Croatian: čarobnjak (sh) m, mag (sh) m
Slovene: mag m
Spanish: mago (es) m, hechicero (es) m
Swedish: trollkarl (sv) c, magiker (sv) c

Anagrams

MEGA, Mega, game, mega, mega-

Afrikaans

Noun

mage

plural of maag

Danish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈmæːjə], [ˈmæːæ]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse maki, from Proto-Germanic *makô, *gamakô, cognate with English match.

Noun

mage c (singular definite magen, plural indefinite mager)

fellow (one of a pair, or of two things used together)
mate (of an animal)
husband, wife, spouse
match, equal

Declension

Declension of mage

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mage	magen	mager	magerne
genitive	mages	magens	magers	magernes

Derived terms

mage til, magen til ("identical", lit. "(the) match of")

Adjective

mage (uninflected)

(dated) matching
- 1895, Magdalene Thoresen, Livsluft: fortaellinger, page 2:
  Den store Kjærlighed, som forenede dem til et i Sandhed mage Par, var vokset i jævn og kraftig Stigning fra Medfølelse til Respekt, fra den til Beundring - og da var der jo ikke ret langt til Kjærligheden!
  The great love that united them into a truly well-fittingcouple, had grown at an even and strong rate from sympathy to respect, from that to admiration - and then there was no far distance to love!
- 2009, Peter Michael Lauritzen, Grund og bølge: en litterær, tids- og åndshistorisk studie af Erik Aalbæk Jensens forfatterskab, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN, page 469:
  De er vel tilsyneladende, med hele rigdommens selvsikkerhed, et mere mage par, end den umage Erling […] ville være sammen med Hedvig.
  They are seemingly, with all the confidence of wealth, a more similar pair, than the dissimilar Erling […] would be with Hedvig.
Synonym: umage

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German māken, from Old Saxon makōn, from Proto-West Germanic *makōn, cognate with English make, German machen, Dutch maken. Old Norse maka, Norwegian make, Swedish maka are also borrowed from Low German. The verb is derived from the adjective Proto-Germanic *makaz (“suitable”).

Verb

mage (imperative mag, infinitive at mage, present tense mager, past tense magede, perfect tense har maget)

to arrange

Dutch Low Saxon

Etymology

From Old Saxon mago, from Proto-West Germanic *magō, from Proto-Germanic *magô. Cognate with Dutch maag (“stomach”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [mɒːɣə], IPA^(key): [mɔːɣə] (more on the merger of monophthongal A and O)

Noun

mage f (genitive magen, dative magen, accusative mage, plural magen)

stomach

Usage notes

The plural form stays the same in every case.

French

Etymology

From Latin magus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /maʒ/
Rhymes: -aʒ

Noun

mage m (plural mages)

specialist in occult sciences foretelling the future
Après une violente dispute avec son mari, elle consulte un mage qui lui prédit un sombre avenir.
(obsolete) magus: priest of the Zoroastrian religion, of the Persians and Medes
wise man (one of the three wise men that came from the East to Bethlehem for Jesus Christ)
L’adoration des mages.

Related terms

magie
roi mage

Anagrams

méga

Friulian

Noun

mage ? (plural ?)

stomach

Japanese

Romanization

mage

Rōmaji transcription of まげ

Latin

Noun

mage

vocative singular of magus

References

“mage”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“mage”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *mago, from Proto-West Germanic *magō.

Noun

māge f or m

stomach

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Dutch: maag
- Afrikaans: maag
- → Indonesian: mag
- Negerhollands: maag
Limburgish: maag

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

mâge

inflection of mâech:
1. dative singular
2. nominative/accusative/dative plural

Middle Low German

Etymology

From Old Saxon mago, from Proto-West Germanic *magō. Cognate with German Magen (“stomach”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /maːɣə/

Noun

māge f (genitive magen, dative magen, accusative mage, plural magen)

stomach

Usage notes

The plural form stays the same in every case.

Synonyms

lif (body, figurative for belly)
buk (belly, abdomen)

Descendants

Low German:
- German Low German: Mage, Maag
- Westphalian:
  Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Māge
  Sauerländisch: Māge
  Westmünsterländian: Maagen, Maage
Plautdietsch: Moag

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

mave

Etymology

From Old Norse magi, from Proto-Germanic *magô.

Noun

mage m (definite singular magen, indefinite plural mager, definite plural magene)

abdomen, belly, stomach

Synonyms

underliv

Derived terms

magedans
magedanser, magedanserinne
magefølelse
magekreft
mageplask
magesekk
magesår

References

“mage” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse magi, from Proto-Germanic *magô. The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /²mɑːjə/, /²mɑːɡə/

Noun

mage m (definite singular magen, indefinite plural magar, definite plural magane)

abdomen, belly, stomach

Alternative forms

maga, magje, maagaa, mågå, måvå, måvvå (dialectal)

Synonyms

underliv

Derived terms

bladmage
dessertmage
istermage
kjertelmage
kulemage
løypemage
magebelte
magedans
magehistorie
magekatarr
magekjensle
mageknip
magekreft
magemunn
magemål
mageplask
mageriv
magesaft
magesekk
magesjau
magesjuke
magesmerte
magesykje
magesyre
mageverk
magevondt
magesår
middagsmage
nettmage
puntlêrsmage
på tom mage
sidmaga
stormaga
strutsemage
sundmage
surmaga
treg mage
trå mage
ølmage

Verb

mage (present tense magar, past tense maga, past participle maga, passive infinitive magast, present participle magande, imperative mage/mag)

(transitive) to gut
Synonym: sløye
(transitive) to regurgitate (to cough up from the gut to feed its young, as an animal or bird does.)
(intransitive or reflexive, rare) to move by crawling with one's belly to the floor or ground

Alternative forms

maga (a- or split infinitive)

References

“mage” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

game, gema, mega-

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish maghi, from Old Norse magi, from Proto-Germanic *magô, from Proto-Indo-European *mak-, *maks-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /²mɑːɡɛ/
audio (file)

Noun

mage c

stomach
abdomen, belly (body part between thorax and pelvis)
Synonyms: buk, abdomen, (colloquial) kagge
(in idiomatic expressions) insolence, gall, cheek
Ni hade alltså mage att komma oinbjudna?
So you had the gall to come uninvited?

Declension

Declension of mage
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	mage	magen	magar	magarna
Genitive	mages	magens	magars	magarnas

Derived terms

ha is i magen – to be calm and cool under pressure; "to have ice in the stomach"
ha mage – to have the insolence to do something; "to have stomach (for something)"
hård i magen – having difficulty passing excrements, being constipated; "hard stomach"
lös i magen – having loose bowels; "soft/loose stomach"

komage
kulmage
magbesvär
magblödning
magborstare
magcancer
magdans
magdanserska
magdansös
maggrop
maggördel
maginfluensa
maginnehåll
magkatarr
magknip
magkänsla
magmun
magmuskel
magont
magplask
magpumpa
magpumpning
magsaft
magsjuk
magsjuka
magskölja
magsköljning
magsmärtor
magsond
magstark
magsur
magsyra
magsäck
magsår
magtrakten
ölmage

References

mage in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

mega-

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian maga, from Proto-West Germanic *magō.

Noun

mage c (plural magen, diminutive maachje)

stomach

mage

English

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Noun

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Afrikaans

Noun

Danish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

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Adjective

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Verb

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Dutch Low Saxon

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Noun

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French

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Noun

Related terms

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Friulian

Noun

Japanese

Romanization

Latin

Noun

References

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

Noun

Inflection

Descendants

Etymology 2

Noun

Further reading

Middle Low German

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Noun

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Descendants

Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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Verb

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Swedish

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Noun

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