English Explanatory Dictionary

saga

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.
noun
  1. plural of sagum
name
  1. Saga Prefecture (a prefecture in western Kyushu, Japan)
  2. The capital city of Saga Prefecture, Japan.
name
  1. A unisex given name.
name
  1. A county of Shigatse, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Pronunciation

/ˈsɑːɡə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-saga.wav sä′gä

Word forms

saga sagas

Etymology

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”).

Derived words

Aga saga minisaga saga boy sagalike sagaman supersaga

Translations

Arabic: سَاغَا Chinese Mandarin: 佐賀 /佐贺 Czech: Saga Hindi: सागा Japanese: 佐賀市 Japanese: 佐賀 Korean: 사가 Marathi: सागा Polish: Saga Russian: Са́га
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