Maga

See also: Appendix:Variations of "maga"

English

Etymology 1

Phrase

Maga

  1. (chiefly British spelling) Alternative letter-case form of MAGA (Make America Great Again).
    • 2018 August 29, “California schoolgirl arrested in Trump hat classroom fracas”, in BBC News[1], BBC, archived from the original on 30 August 2018:
      The 17-year-old told a CBS affiliate the Maga hats - a staple of President Trump's campaign - are a "racist and hateful symbol." ¶ According to the sheriff's office, the student began verbally attacking her peer on Monday because of the Maga hat, before grabbing and hurling it to the ground.
    • 2025 January 26, Owen Myers, “From gay clubs to Maga anthem: the absurd, contested history of the Village People’s YMCA”, in The Guardian[2], →ISSN:
      The millions that Willis says he stands to make from a Maga-endorsed YMCA presumably makes it easier for him and his associates to put on all the bells and whistles (well, fringe and leather) for an administration set on a scorched-earth approach to LGBTQ+ protections.

Noun

Maga (plural Magas)

  1. (chiefly British spelling) Alternative letter-case form of MAGA (Make America Great Again).
    • 2025 April 12, Robert Armstrong, “Do these trousers make me look fascist?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 4:
      In America today this takes at least two forms: tight-fitting clothes that display the shoulders, biceps and thighs (see the straining suit seams of Jeff Bezos and the younger Magas) [] .

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hebrew מַגָּע (maga, contact).

Noun

Maga (uncountable)

  1. (nonstandard) Ellipsis of Krav Maga (contact combat).

Etymology 3

Clipping of magazine.

Proper noun

Maga

  1. (historical, UK, publishing) Abbreviation of Blackwood's Magazine (1817–1980).
    • 1862 November 29, All the Year Round, volume VIII, page 275:
      In 1817 he connected himself definitively with Blackwood's Magazine, or "Maga."

Anagrams

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmaɡa]

Proper noun

Maga m pers (female equivalent Magová)

  1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Maga
(pattern hrdina)
singularplural 1plural 2
nominativeMagaMagoviaMagovci
genitiveMaguMagovMagovcov
dativeMagoviMagomMagovcom
accusativeMaguMagovMagovcov
locativeMagoviMagochMagovcoch
instrumentalMagomMagamiMagovcami

Further reading

  • Maga”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025