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saga

/ˈsɑːɡə/US/ˈsɑɡə/

saga noun: an Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends. Also the plural of sagum.

Noun

saga (plural sagas)

  1. An Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
  2. Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.
    • The latest Fire Emblem, developed by the makers of Advance Wars and available in the U.S., is the seventh game in an epic saga that began 13 years ago on the NES.2003 December, “Fire Emblem”, in Nintendo Power, volume 174, A Long and Fiery Tradition, page 32
    • Manchester City put the Carlos Tevez saga behind them with a classy victory at Blackburn that keeps them level on points with leaders Manchester United.2011 October 1, David Ornstein, “Blackburn 0-4 Man City”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2012

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Saga

Saga

  1. Saga Prefecture (a prefecture in western Kyushu, Japan)
  2. The capital city of Saga Prefecture, Japan.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Saga

Saga

  1. (rare) A unisex given name.
    • Saga Becker
    • 2007, Saga McOdongo, Deadly money maker

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Saga

Saga

  1. A county of Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
    • 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;[…]1982, Zhang Mingtao, The Roof of the World, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 73
    • 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.2003, Michele Martin, Music in the Sky: The Life, Art, and Teachings of the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Snow Lion Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 82

Also used as

saga is also the plural of sagum.

saga meaning in Arabic, Malay and Indonesian

saga in Arabic

long epic story
مَلحَمَة malḥama

saga in Malay

Old Norse Icelandic prose
saga
long epic story
saga, hikayat

saga in Indonesian

Old Norse Icelandic prose
saga

Examples of saga in a sentence

  • The saga continues for Liz as she faces one obby after another.
  • It was another chapter in a dismal saga of Nimbyist urban mismanagement that is crushing American cities.
  • "Latin," I droned, "philosophy of religion, a colloq on medieval Icelandic family sagas—"

All 31 example sentences with saga

Forms of saga

pluralsagas

Plural of saga: sagas

Origin of saga

From Old Norse saga (“epic tale, story”), from Proto-Germanic *sagǭ (“saying, story”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to say”). Cognate with Old English sagu (“story, tale, statement”), Old High German saga (“an assertion, narrative, sermon, pronouncement”), Icelandic saga (“story, tale, history”), German Sage (“saga, legend, myth”). More at say; Doublet of saw. Compare typologically Ancient Greek ἔπος (épos) (whence epos, epic) << Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ- (“to speak”).

From Latin saga, plural of sagum.

Borrowed from Japanese 佐賀(さが) (Saga).

Words formed from saga

Phrases with saga

Words that rhyme with saga

Questions about saga

What does saga mean?
Saga means an Old Norse (Icelandic) prose narrative, especially one dealing with family or social histories and legends.
What is saga in Arabic?
Saga in Arabic is مَلحَمَة (malḥama). See Saga meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is saga?
Saga can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce saga?
Saga is pronounced /ˈsɑːɡə/ (UK).
What is the plural of saga?
The plural of saga is sagas.

Words near saga in the dictionary

  1. sag ponds
  2. sag wagon
  3. sag wagons
  4. SAG-AFTRA
  5. Sag-od
  6. saga
  7. saga boy
  8. saga boys
  9. Saga lout
  10. Saga louts
  11. sagaciate

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