bag

rup-verb

bag first-singular present indicative (past participle bãgatã or bãgate)

bag first-singular present indicative (canonical)
bãgatã (participle past)
bãgate (participle past)

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

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

unk

obscure


bag

(anatomy) behind, bottom, butt, buttocks

head

bag c (singular definite bagen, plural indefinite bage)

bagen (definite singular)
bage (indefinite plural)
bag (indefinite nominative singular)
bagen (definite nominative singular)
bage (indefinite nominative plural)
bagene (definite nominative plural)
bags (genitive indefinite singular)
bagens (definite genitive singular)
bages (genitive indefinite plural)
bagenes (definite genitive plural)

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

bag n (singular definite baget, plural indefinite bage)

baget (definite singular)
bage (indefinite plural)
bag (indefinite nominative singular)
baget (definite nominative singular)
bags (genitive indefinite singular)
bagets (definite genitive singular)


bag

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


bag

A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.

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.

Acid House is not my bag: I prefer the more traditional styles of music.

And from then on, his bag was silence. Silence and killing.

1976, Newton Thornburg, Cutter and Bone, Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 250:

The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.

(baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.

He headed back to the bag.

(baseball) First, second, or third base.

(preceded by the) A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.

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}.

(mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.

Meronym: teats

Her bag is coming in nicely now.

A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.

An udder, especially the pendulous one of a dairy cow.

(usually in the plural) The human female breast.

the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents

[H]e had once lost his bag, and a considerable quantity of hair, which had been cut off by some rascal in his passage through Ludgate, during the lord mayor's procession.

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

He had on a suit of Manchester velvet, Lined with white satten, a Bag, lace Ruffles, and a very handsome sword which the King had given to him.

1774, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, 1 December

(now historical) A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.

(UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.

With gravel stuck to my cheek, I pulled myself back in the car, looked in the rearview mirror, and saw, looking back at me, a young man with a pale face and a purple bag under each eye. I looked pitiful […]

2013, Ken Ilgunas, Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom, page 14:

(chiefly in the plural) A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.

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.

2014 August 28, Sam Wilhoit, quoting OJ da Juiceman, “The Life and Times of OJ da Juiceman”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2023-09-22:

A bag refers to money. So to get a bag or even secure a bag means that you are acquiring money.

[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, McLean, V.A.: Gannett, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-16:

Secure the bag, secure the bag
Grab the stash and hit the trap

2019 April 4, “Secure The Bag”, Skripteh (lyrics), 1:33:

(countable, uncountable) In certain phrases: money.

(US, gay slang, derogatory) A fellow gay man.

A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.

Coulda got a bag last year
But now I get a bag for a verse

2017 May 2, Figure Flows (lyrics and music), “Money Right”, in Big Figures ft. Purple, from 1:18:

My hoodie cost a bag three, my runners cost a bag two

2023 June 18, “100mph Freestyle x3”, Clavish (lyrics), 1:30:

(slang)
(Cockney rhyming slang) £1000, a grand.

Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang

→ Japanese: バッグ

→ Korean: 백 (baek)

→ Norwegian: bag

كِيس

paper (or plastic) container given or sold to shoppers

包

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

coixí

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

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. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰak- (compare Welsh baich (“load, bundle”), Ancient Greek βάσταγμα (bástagma, “load”)).


bag

We bagged three deer yesterday.

He was a fine specimen, very large and with a beautiful coat, and I wish I had had the luck to bag him.

1909, John Claude White, Sikhim and Bhutan, page 55:

"As a matter of fact my thoughts were flashing between Ronda and that man-eating tiger I'm going to bag tomorrow."

1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XIV, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 147:

(transitive) To take with oneself, to assume into one's score

(informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.

the two opposition groups have bagged almost 300 of the 500 seats contested in the election.

2023 May 14, Tan Tam Mei, “Thai election: Early results show opposition parties in the lead”, in The Straits Times:

To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.

"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."

1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe:

When we hit the club to go and hell-raise / Probably end up baggin' the cocktail waitress

2020, “Those Kinda Nights”, in Music to Be Murdered By, performed by Eminem ft. Ed Sheeran:

(slang, African-American Vernacular) To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.

Free bro, free bro, we got bagged for a M

2021 January 29, JS x Jtrapz (lyrics and music), “Straight On Smoke”, 0:54–0:56:

(transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.

(transitive, medicine) To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.

The patient was bagged for a urine analysis and stat electrolytes were drawn.

1985, Sol S. Zimmerman, Joan Holter Gildea, Critical Care Pediatrics, page 205:

(transitive, medicine) To fit with a bag to collect urine.

To furnish or load with a bag.
To fit with a bag to collect urine.

a bee bagged with his honeyed venom

1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):

The skin bags from containing morbid matter.

The brisk wind bagged the sails.

To expose exterior shape or physical behaviour resembling that of a bag

(obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.

1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter III, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:

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?

2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 11, in Small Island, London: Review, page 125:

His trousers bag at the knees.

(nautical, intransitive) To drop away from the correct course.

VVell, Venus ſhortly bagged, and ere long vvas Cupid bread, […]

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:

(obsolete, intransitive) To become pregnant.

I may just bag that. I think poets have an obligation to boost the magazines they appear in.

1977, The Publication of Poetry and Fiction, page 97:

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.

1998, Ed Burke, Precision Heart Rate Training, page 78:

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?

1999, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, 105-1 Hearing: Implementation of Fast Track Trade Authority:

'Oh bag that,' said Nelson. 'Do the Edmund stuff — no, cut, we'll do it later, look, it's knocking midnight.'

2002, Glyn Maxwell, Time's Fool: A Tale in Verse, page 296:

“Or we can bag that part of it and just go straight inside,” Bolan suggested.

2007, Don Pendleton, Ripple Effect, page 322:

I'll get the sonofa—” “Listen, just bag that punchout shit for the moment. You've got a problem, and don't forget it.

(slang, African-American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.

(Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.

en-verb

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

bags (present singular third-person)
bagging (participle present)
bagged (participle past)
bagged (past)

hankkia

to gain possession of, or to make first claim on


bag

A purse more or less similar to a bag or sack.

(on a baby carriage) a detachable part of the carriage to lie on.

bagen (definite singular)
bager (indefinite plural)
bagene (definite plural)

Borrowed from English bag, from Old Norse baggi.


bag

bagen (definite singular)
bagar (indefinite plural)
bagane (definite plural)

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


bag

bāg (canonical masculine)
bāg (nominative singular)
bāgar (nominative plural)
bāga (nominative plural)
bāg (accusative singular)
bāgar (accusative plural)
bāga (accusative plural)
bāges (genitive singular)
bāga (genitive plural)
bāge (dative singular)
bāgum (dative plural)
bāgem (dative plural)

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


bag

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


bag

first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of băga


bag

bag (indefinite nominative singular)
bags (genitive indefinite singular)
bagen (definite nominative singular)
bagens (definite genitive singular)
bagar (indefinite nominative plural)
bagars (genitive indefinite plural)
bagarna (definite nominative plural)
bagarnas (definite genitive plural)


bag

head

bāg (definite accusative bāgy, plural bāglar)

bāg (canonical)
bāgy (accusative definite)
bāglar (plural)
bag (nominative singular)
baglar (nominative plural)
bagy (accusative singular)
baglary (accusative plural)
bagyň (genitive singular)
baglaryň (genitive plural)
baga (dative singular)
baglara (dative plural)
bagda (locative singular)
baglarda (locative plural)
bagdan (ablative singular)
baglardan (ablative plural)


bag

Bag ýanýar.

bag (definite accusative bagy, plural baglar)

bagy (accusative definite)
baglar (plural)
bag (nominative singular)
baglar (nominative plural)
bagy (accusative singular)
baglary (accusative plural)
bagyň (genitive singular)
baglaryň (genitive plural)
baga (dative singular)
baglara (dative plural)
bagda (locative singular)
baglarda (locative plural)
bagdan (ablative singular)
baglardan (ablative plural)

Etymology tree
Proto-Iranian *bāgáh
Old Persian *bāgah
Middle Persian bʾg
Classical Persian بَاغ (bāğ)bor.
Turkmen bag
Borrowed from Classical Persian بَاغ (bāğ).


bag

head

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)

𭄄 (Sawndip)
擗 (Sawndip)
鐴 (Sawndip)
剥 (Sawndip)
𢫦 (Sawndip)
𪫮 (Sawndip)
扒 (Sawndip)
𰄙 (Sawndip)
𢫗 (Sawndip)
⿱拍刀 (Sawndip)
𠛋 (Sawndip)
𫥴 (Sawndip)
⿰扌劈 (Sawndip)
破 (Sawndip)


bag

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

𭼈 (Sawndip)
⿸疒百 (Sawndip)
怕 (Sawndip)
剥 (Sawndip)


bag

mabag