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bag

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tuki.

Commons

Inherited from Middle English bagge, from Old Norse baggi (“bag, pack, satchel, bundle”) (whence also Old French bague (“bundle, package, sack”)); related to Old Norse bǫggr (“harm, shame; load, burden”), of uncertain origin.

A plastic bag.

bag (countable and uncountable, plural bags)

  1. A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
    Synonyms: sack, tote, (archaic) poke
  2. A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.
    Hyponyms: sack, pouch, tote, bindle, purse, backpack
  3. (colloquial) One's preference.
    Synonyms: cup of tea, thing; see also Thesaurus:predilection
    • 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 20:
      They knew it and sometimes used it as a way to get her to glox on, which was not her usual bag.
  4. (derogatory) An ugly woman.
    Synonyms: dog, hag
  5. (baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
    The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.
  6. (baseball) First, second, or third base.
    He headed back to the bag.
  7. (preceded by the) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
  8. (mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
    Synonym: multiset
    A bag of three apples could be represented symbolically as {a,a,a}. Or, letting 'r' denote 'red apple' and 'g' denote 'green apple', then a bag of three red apples and two green apples could be denoted as {r,r,r,g,g}.
  9. A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
    the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents
    1. An udder, especially the pendulous one of a dairy cow.
      Synonym: milkbag
      Meronym: teats
      Her bag is coming in nicely now.
    2. (usually in the plural) The human female breast.
      Synonyms: milkbag, funbag; see also Thesaurus:breasts
  10. (now historical) A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
  1. The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
  2. (UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
  3. (chiefly in the plural) A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
  1. (informal) A large number or amount.
  2. (slang)
  3. (countable, uncountable) In certain phrases: money.
    • 2014 August 28, Sam Wilhoit, quoting OJ da Juiceman, “The Life and Times of OJ da Juiceman”, in VICE‎[1], archived from the original on 22 September 2023:
      What about the time you got shot eight times and then played a show the same week? ¶ Oh yeah that was beautiful, I mean it was fucked up that I was shot, but as far as goin' to get that bag I'm always gonna go get that bag.
    • [**2019** February 6, Rasha Ali, “Get hip to all the slang words and phrases your kids are using and what they mean, okurrr”, in USA Today‎[2], McLean, V.A.: Gannett, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 May 2023:
      A bag refers to money. So to get a bag or even secure a bag means that you are acquiring money.]
    • 2019 April 4, “Secure The Bag”, Skripteh (lyrics)‎[3], 1:33:
      Secure the bag, secure the bag
      Grab the stash and hit the trap
  4. (US, gay slang, derogatory) A fellow gay man.
  5. A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
  6. (vulgar) The scrotum.
  7. (Cockney rhyming slang) £1000, a grand.
    • 2017 May 2, Figure Flows, “Money Right”, in Big Figures ft. Purple, from 1🔞
      Coulda got a bag last year
      But now I get a bag for a verse
    • 2023 June 18, “100mph Freestyle x3”, Clavish (lyrics)‎[4], 1:30:
      My hoodie cost a bag three, my runners cost a bag two

flexible container

paper (or plastic) container given or sold to shoppers

general term for a container made of leather, plastic, or other material

ugly woman

baseball: cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base

baseball: first, second, or third base

Translations to be checked

bag (third-person singular simple present bags, present participle bagging, simple past and past participle bagged)

  1. (transitive) To put into a bag.
  2. (transitive) To take with oneself, to assume into one's score
    1. (informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
      We bagged three deer yesterday.
      • 1909, John Claude White, Sikhim and Bhutan, page 55:
        He was a fine specimen, very large and with a beautiful coat, and I wish I had had the luck to bag him.
      • 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XIV, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 147:
        "As a matter of fact my thoughts were flashing between Ronda and that man-eating tiger I'm going to bag tomorrow."
    2. To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
      • 2023 May 14, Tan Tam Mei, “Thai election: Early results show opposition parties in the lead”, in The Straits Times‎[5]:
        the two opposition groups have bagged almost 300 of the 500 seats contested in the election.
    3. (slang) To steal.
      • 1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe:
        "I am sure nobody would mind," said Susan. "It isn't as if we wanted to take them out of the house; we shan't take them even out of the wardrobe."
        "I never thought of that, Su," said Peter. "Of course, now you put it that way, I see. No one could say you had bagged a coat as long as you leave it in the wardrobe where you found it. And I suppose this whole country is in the wardrobe."
    4. (slang, African-American Vernacular) To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.
      • 2020, “Those Kinda Nights”, in Music to Be Murdered By, performed by Eminem ft. Ed Sheeran:
        When we hit the club to go and hell-raise / Probably end up baggin' the cocktail waitress
    5. (slang) To arrest.
      Synonym: nick
      • 2021 January 29, JS x Jtrapz, “Straight On Smoke”, 0:54–0:56:
        Free bro, free bro, we got bagged for a M
  3. (transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
    • 1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
      a bee bagged with his honeyed venom
    1. (transitive, medicine) To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
    2. (transitive, medicine) To fit with a bag to collect urine.
      • 1985, Sol S. Zimmerman, Joan Holter Gildea, Critical Care Pediatrics, page 205:
        The patient was bagged for a urine analysis and stat electrolytes were drawn.
  4. To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag
    1. (obsolete, ambitransitive) To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.
      The skin bags from containing morbid matter.
      The brisk wind bagged the sails.
    2. To hang like an empty bag.
      His trousers bag at the knees.
      • 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 11, in Small Island‎[6], London: Review, page 125:
        And this uniform did not even fit me so well. But what is a little bagging on the waist and tightness under the arm when you are a gallant member of the British Royal Air Force?
    3. (nautical, intransitive) To drop away from the correct course.
    4. (obsolete, intransitive) To become pregnant.
      • 1602, William Warner, “The Sixt Booke. Chapter XXX.”, in Albions England. A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome, from the Originals of the First Inhabitants thereof: […], 5th edition, London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 148:
        VVell, Venus ſhortly bagged, and ere long vvas Cupid bread, […]
  5. To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
    • 1977, The Publication of Poetry and Fiction, page 97:
      I may just bag that. I think poets have an obligation to boost the magazines they appear in.
    • 1998, Ed Burke, Precision Heart Rate Training, page 78:
      Well, even if your VCR is still blinking “12:00," I hope you're smart enough to stay inside when it's that cold and just bag that workout.
    • 1999, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, 105-1 Hearing: Implementation of Fast Track Trade Authority:
      I will just bag that. If not in the trade bill, that people believe should not interfere with the President's ability to negotiate a trade agreement, how would it be dealt with?
    • 2002, Glyn Maxwell, Time's Fool: A Tale in Verse, page 296:
      'Oh bag that,' said Nelson. 'Do the Edmund stuff — no, cut, we'll do it later, look, it's knocking midnight.'
    • 2007, Don Pendleton, Ripple Effect, page 322:
      “Or we can bag that part of it and just go straight inside,” Bolan suggested.
    • 2014, Harlan Ellison, Spider Kiss:
      I'll get the sonofa—” “Listen, just bag that punchout shit for the moment. You've got a problem, and don't forget it.
  6. (slang, African-American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
  7. (Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.

to put into a bag

to catch

to furnish or load with a bag

to criticise sarcastically

to swell or hang down like a full bag

From French bague.

bag

  1. ring

Either of substrate origin or from a Vulgar Latin *begō, from Late Latin bīgō, from Latin bīga. Less likely from Greek βάζω (vázo, “put in, set on”). May have originally referred to putting animals under a yoke. Compare Romanian băga, bag.

bag (participle bãgatã or bãgate)

  1. to put, place, apply
  2. to go to bed

Probably tied to Old French bac (“flat boat”), itself of obscure origin, although compare Vulgar Latin *baccinum (“wide bowl”).

bag f

  1. boat

From Old Norse bak n (“back”), from Proto-Germanic *baką, cognate with Norwegian bak, Swedish bak, English back. The preposition is a shortening of Old Norse á bak (“on the back of”), compare English back from aback, from Old English onbæc.

bag c (singular definite bagen, plural indefinite bage)

  1. (anatomy) behind, bottom, butt, buttocks
  2. seat (part of clothing)

bag

  1. behind

bag

  1. behind

From the verb to bake.

bag n (singular definite baget, not used in plural form)

  1. (rare) pastry
    Synonym: bagværk

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bag

  1. imperative of bage

From French bague (“ring”).

bag

  1. ring

bag

  1. cheek

Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi.

bag m (definite singular bagen, indefinite plural bager, definite plural bagene)

  1. A purse more or less similar to a bag or sack.
  2. (on a baby carriage) a detachable part of the carriage to lie on.

Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi. Doublet of bagge.

bag m (definite singular bagen, indefinite plural bagar, definite plural bagane)

  1. A purse more or less similar to a bag or sack.
  2. (on a baby carriage) a detachable part of the carriage to lie on.

From Proto-West Germanic *baug (“ring”). Cognate to Old English bēag.

bāg m

  1. a ring

A person is walking on a street holding a green delivery bag for Bolt Food.

uma bag

Unadapted borrowing from English bag.

bag f (plural bags)

  1. (informal) delivery bag
    Hypernym: mochila
    • 2023 June 23, Douglas Gavras, Gabriela Biló, quoting an anonymous delivery man, “Menores de idade trabalham como entregadores em aplicativos”, in Folha de S.Paulo, São Paulo: Folha da Manhã, →ISSN:
      "Menor de 16 anos, caindo para dentro, trabalha na conta do cunhado dele. Eu tenho um enteado que tem 17 anos, tenho telefone, tenho a conta, tenho bag [mochila para entregas] e meu enteado não quer trabalhar", narra um entregador em um vídeo no YouTube.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

From Magadhi Prakrit [Term?], from Sanskrit व्याघ्र (vyāghra).

bag

  1. tiger

bag

  1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of băga

Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi.

bag c

  1. A kind of large bag; a duffel bag

Borrowed from English bag, from Middle English bagge, from Old Norse baggi (“bag, pack, satchel, bundle”).

bag (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜄ᜔)

  1. ladies' bag; handbag
  2. backpack
  3. schoolbag
  4. paper or cloth bag
    Synonym: supot
  5. jute sack (for grains, cereals, etc.)
    Synonyms: sako, kustal

Torres Strait Creole

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From Meriam bag.

bag

  1. (anatomy, eastern dialect) cheek
Other scripts
Latin bag‍
Cyrillic баг‍
Arabic باغ

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *bāg. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

bāg (definite accusative bāgy, plural bāglar)

  1. string, lace, shoelace

Middle Persian bʾg

Turkmen bag

Borrowed from Classical Persian بَاغ (bāġ).

bag (definite accusative bagy, plural baglar)

  1. garden
    Bag ýanýar. ― The garden is on fire.
  2. orchard, grove
  3. park

From English bag.

bag m (plural bagiau)

  1. bag

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From Proto-Tai *bra:kD?”)

bag (Sawndip forms 𭄄 or 擗 or 鐴 or 剥 or 𢫦 or 𪫮 or 扒 or 𰄙 or 𢫗 or ⿱拍刀 or 𠛋 or 𫥴 or ⿰扌劈 or 破, 1957–1982 spelling **bag)

  1. to chop; to split
  2. (of lightning) to strike
  3. to dive; to swoop down
  4. to divide
  5. to cut across

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

bag (Sawndip forms 𭼈 or ⿸疒百 or 怕 or 剥, 1957–1982 spelling **bag)

  1. mental illness

bag (Sawndip forms 𭼈 or ⿸疒百 or 怕 or 剥, 1957–1982 spelling **bag)

  1. crazy; mad; insane
    Synonym: vangh

bag (Sawndip forms 𭼈 or ⿸疒百 or 怕 or 剥, 1957–1982 spelling **bag)

  1. to become crazy; to go mad; to go nuts
    Synonym: vangh