Maga
See also: Appendix:Variations of "maga"
English
Etymology 1
Phrase
Maga
- (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)
- (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)
- (nonstandard) Ellipsis of Krav Maga (“contact combat”).
Etymology 3
Clipping of magazine.
Proper noun
Maga
- (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)
- a male surname
Declension
| singular | plural 1 | plural 2 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Maga | Magovia | Magovci |
| genitive | Magu | Magov | Magovcov |
| dative | Magovi | Magom | Magovcom |
| accusative | Magu | Magov | Magovcov |
| locative | Magovi | Magoch | Magovcoch |
| instrumental | Magom | Magami | Magovcami |
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