mag

mag

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Magahi.

• IPA^(key): /mæɡ/

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• Rhymes: -æɡ

mag (plural mags)

1. (colloquial) Clipping of magazine.

   NY Mag ― New York Magazine

   stash of porno mags

2. (colloquial) Clipping of magnet.
3. (colloquial, automotive) Ellipsis of mag wheel.

   brand new tires and steel-style factory mags

4. (astronomy) Clipping of magnitude.
5. (colloquial, law) Clipping of magistrate.
6. (colloquial) Clipping of magnetometer.
   • 2010, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, Legislative Branch Appropriations for 2011: Hearings..., page 171:

     The policy is that all staff entering the Capitol are required to go through the mags whether or not they are with a Member of Congress.

   • 2022 June 28, Luke Broadwater, Michael S. Schmidt, quoting Donald Trump, “Trump Urged Armed Supporters to Capitol, White House Aide Testifies”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     “Take the f-ing mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here.”

mag (third-person singular simple present mags, present participle magging, simple past and past participle magged)

1. (transitive, obsolete, slang) To steal.

• magsman
• magpie

mag (plural mags)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A halfpenny.
   • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

     "Why, of course you wanted to get in," Mr. Bucket asserts with cheerfulness; "but for a old gentleman at your time of life […] not to consider that if he don't keep such a business as the present as close as possible it can't be worth a mag to him, is so curious! You see your temper got the better of you; that's where you lost ground," says Mr. Bucket in an argumentative and friendly way.

   • 1861, Philip William Perfitt, The Pathfinder, page 377:

     When all your tin is gone and spent,
     And you've not a mag for bread or rent

• AGM, GMA, Gam., MGA, gam

• IPA^(key): /maχ/

From Dutch mogen, from Middle Dutch mogen, from Old Dutch mugan, from Proto-Germanic *maganą, from Proto-Indo-European *magʰ-, *megʰ-.

mag (present mag, past mog)

1. may, might

The preterite form mog is archaic and rarely used.

From Dutch macht, from Middle Dutch macht, from Old Dutch *maht, from Proto-Germanic *mahtiz, from Proto-Indo-European *mógʰtis.

mag (plural magte)

1. might; power

• mang, makth

Denasalized variant of mang.

mag m (plural magë, definite magu, definite plural magët)

1. rabbit, hinny

• makth
• meksh

Borrowed from Latin magus, from Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos). First attested in 1803.[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈmak]

mag m (plural mags, feminine maga)

1. magician; wizard
2. magus (Zoroastrian priest)

• màgic
• Reis Mags

• “mag” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mag”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “mag” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mag” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Middle Low German mak (“ease, calm”), related to Old Saxon makon (“to make”).

mag c or n

1. rest

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• Rhymes: -ɑx
• IPA^(key): /mɑx/

mag

1. inflection of mogen:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

• IPA^(key): /maːk/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /max/ (northern and central Germany, now chiefly colloquial)

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• Rhymes: -aːk, -ax
• Homophone: mach (regional only)

mag

1. first/third-person singular present of mögen

mag

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐌲

Probably from Proto-Finno-Ugric *muŋkɜ (“body”).[1][2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɒɡ]
• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

mag (plural magok)

1. seed, pip, stone, pit, core (the central part of fruits)
2. kernel, core, nucleus (the most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence)
3. Ellipsis of processzormag (“core”, an individual computer processor).

Variant plural and possessive forms:

• mag in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch maag (“stomach”), from Middle Dutch māge, from Old Dutch *mago, from Proto-Germanic *magô.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑh/, /ˈmɑx/
• Hyphenation: mag
• Homophone: maag

mag (first-person possessive magku, second-person possessive magmu, third-person possessive magnya)

1. (colloquial, rare) stomach

   Synonym: lambung

2. (colloquial) gastritis

• maag

• “mag” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• (Courland) ma'g

From Proto-Finnic *mako. Related to Finnish maha.

mag

1. stomach
2. belly

From Proto-Celtic *magos (“plain, field”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“big, great”) (compare Sanskrit मही (mahī́, “earth”) from the same root).

• IPA^(key): /maɣ/

mag n (genitive maige, nominative plural maige)

1. a plain, field

• Irish: má
• Scottish Gaelic: magh

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “mag”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 253

Borrowed from Latin magus, from Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos).

• IPA^(key): /mak/

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• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: mag
• Homophone: mak

mag m pers

1. (occult) wizard (person skilled with magic)

   Synonyms: czarodziej, czarownik

• mag in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mag in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic магъ (magŭ), from Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos).

mag m (plural magi)

1. magus, wise man

• magie

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mag (past mhag, future magaidh, verbal noun magadh, past participle magte)

1. mock, deride

Back-formation from magu (“to rear; to breed”).

• IPA^(key): /maːɡ/

mag m (uncountable)

1. fry (young fish)

   Synonym: silod

• IPA^(key): /maɡ/

mag

1. Nasal mutation of bag.

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mag (definite form mag ji)

1. older sibling

   Antonym: rakk