naga
/ˈnɑːɡə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.97 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A member of a class of semi-divine creatures, often taking the form of a very large snake and associated with water.
noun
A fictional creature with the lower body of a snake, and an upper body either of an anthropomorphic version thereof, or of a human or another humanoid creature. The serpentine equivalent of a taur.
Slang
noun
A member of a conglomeration of various tribes, living in Nagaland (India) and surrounding areas, and speaking various Tibeto-Burman languages.
name
A provincial city in Camarines Sur, Philippines.
name
A city in Cebu, Philippines.
name
Example Sentences
- "Boys and many of the men wear the naga, akin to bathing trunks […]"
- "[…] a young lubra wearing nothing but a naga of paper-bark rose and came forward shyly."
- "PAUL RUNDLE: Backstage, they were just asking us, "Where are you from," and all that. And they were touching us and all that there, and I was just there with my little naga and, yeah. And plus we had no ochre, so we had to use sunscreen."
- "2008, Derrick Tomlinson, "Too white to be regarded as Aborigines: An historical analysis of policies for the protection of Aborigines and the assimilation of Aborigines of mixed descent, and the role of Chief Protectors of Aborigines in the formulation and implementation of those policies, in Western Australia from 1898 to 1940" (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)). University of Notre Dame Australia. They doesn’t dress like people doing the Law this time, walking in shirt and tie, they used to have naga and really truly paint up, real tribal way, you know?"
- "The five-coned towers form a quincunx, and their flanks are scooped into niches in each of which has been placed a smiling buddha shaded by a nine-headed naga like a big palm fan."
- "Coordinate term: lamia"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *negʷ-, नाग, *nogʷós