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Naga

//ˈnɑːɡə// name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A provincial city in Camarines Sur, Philippines.
  2. 2
    A city in Cebu, Philippines.
  3. 3
    A municipality of Zamboanga Sibugay, Philippines.
Noun
  1. 1
    A loincloth. Australia

    "Boys and many of the men wear the naga, akin to bathing trunks […]"

  2. 2
    A member of a class of semi-divine creatures, often taking the form of a very large snake and associated with water.

    "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."

  3. 3
    A member of a conglomeration of various tribes, living in Nagaland (India) and surrounding areas, and speaking various Tibeto-Burman languages.
  4. 4
    Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma wordnet
  5. 5
    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

Etymology

Etymology 1

From an Australian Aboriginal language; cf. Wulna nākā (“dress, covering”)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Sanskrit नाग (nāga, “serpent, snake”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nogʷós (“naked”) and cognate with naked.

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