sagan
See also: Sagan and saĝan
English
Noun
sagan (plural sagans)
- Alternative letter-case form of Sagan
- 1984 September 27, Jerry Boyajian, “re: Moriarty's long-awaited reviews”, in net.comics, Usenet:
- Part of it was that I just couldn't deal with a piece of primal matter floating around for sagans of years, eroding away until it became a nice, shiny, sharp-as-William-F.-Buckley's-tongue sword, with the old familiar "S" symbol coincidentally engraved on its hilt.
- 1989, Edward S. Hudson, Alien Death Fleet, Pageant Books, published 1989, →ISBN, page 5:
- "There must be a sagan of them up there."
- 1998, Jon Luini & Allen Whitman, "Finding Your Geek", EQ, January 1998, page 132:
- There are sagans of other planets crying out for this knowledge.
- 2001 October 24, Joe \\"Nuke Me Xemu\\" Foster, “Re: Randomly write data to a file”, in comp.lang.basic.visual.misc, Usenet:
- The Jet and xBase database engines have been pounded on by who knows how many developers and end-users for years, which amounts to sagans and sagans of hours of real-world testing!
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Anagrams
- Agans, Angas, Nāgas, Sanga, gansa, nagas, nāgas, sanga
Icelandic
Noun
sagan f
- definite nominative singular of saga
Old Norse
Noun
sagan
- nominative singular definite of saga
Polish
sagan
Etymology
Perhaps from Russian сагáн (sagán) or Ukrainian сагáн (sahán), from Turkish sagan, from Arabic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsa.ɡan/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aɡan
- Syllabification: sa‧gan
Noun
sagan m inan
- (dated) large copper or iron vessel used to boil water or food
- (colloquial, humorous) head
- (Kraków) kettle
Declension
Declension of sagan
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | sagan | sagany |
| genitive | sagana | saganów |
| dative | saganowi | saganom |
| accusative | sagan | sagany |
| instrumental | saganem | saganami |
| locative | saganie | saganach |
| vocative | saganie | sagany |
Further reading
- sagan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- sagan in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish
Noun
sagan
- definite singular of saga.
Anagrams
- agans