mag

Clipping of English Magahi, from Hindi मगधीय (magdhīya).

mag

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Magahi.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Magahi terms

• IPA^(key): /mæɡ/

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• Rhymes: -æɡ

mag (plural mags)

1. (colloquial) Clipping of magazine.

   NY Mag ― New York Magazine

   stash of porno mags

2. (colloquial) Clipping of magnet.

   Get the mag in there to clear away the scrap.

3. (colloquial, especially medicine) Clipping of magnesium.

   She looks fine on physical exam, but I don't like these low mag levels.

4. (colloquial, automotive) Ellipsis of mag wheel.

   brand new tires and factory-original mags

5. (astronomy) Clipping of magnitude.
6. (colloquial, law) Clipping of magistrate.
7. (colloquial) Clipping of magnetometer.

   mag hits

   Some marine salvagers might be interested in these unusual mag hits.

   • 2010, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, Legislative Branch Appropriations for 2011: Hearings..., page 171:

     The policy is that all staff entering the Capitol are required to go through the mags whether or not they are with a Member of Congress.

   • 2022 June 28, Luke Broadwater, Michael S. Schmidt, quoting Donald Trump, “Trump Urged Armed Supporters to Capitol, White House Aide Testifies”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     “Take the f-ing mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here.”

From Mag, a nickname for Margaret.

mag (third-person singular simple present mags, present participle magging, simple past and past participle magged)

1. (transitive, obsolete, thieves' cant) To steal.
2. (intransitive, obsolete, thieves' cant) To talk.
   • 2015, Eric Lambert, The Twenty Thousand Thieves:

     "Is that why you're always magging with Pascoe?" Horrible John went on. […] "So that's why you and him are always talking. And here's me thinkin' you was crawlin' for stripes."

• magsman
• magpie

mag (plural mags)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A halfpenny.
   • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

     "Why, of course you wanted to get in," Mr. Bucket asserts with cheerfulness; "but for a old gentleman at your time of life […] not to consider that if he don't keep such a business as the present as close as possible it can't be worth a mag to him, is so curious! You see your temper got the better of you; that's where you lost ground," says Mr. Bucket in an argumentative and friendly way.

   • 1861, Philip William Perfitt, The Pathfinder, page 377:

     When all your tin is gone and spent,
     And you've not a mag for bread or rent

• MGA, GMA, Gam., AMG, gma, GAM, AGM, gam

• IPA^(key): /maχ/

From Dutch mogen, from Middle Dutch mogen, from Old Dutch mugan, from Proto-Germanic *maganą, from Proto-Indo-European *magʰ-, *megʰ-.

mag (present mag, past mog)

1. may, might

The preterite form mog is archaic and rarely used.

From Dutch macht, from Middle Dutch macht, from Old Dutch *maht, from Proto-Germanic *mahtiz, from Proto-Indo-European *mógʰtis.

mag (plural magte)

1. might; power

• mang, makth

Denasalized variant of mang.

mag m (plural magë, definite magu, definite plural magët)

1. rabbit, hinny

• makth
• meksh

Borrowed from Latin magus, from Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos). First attested in 1803.^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmak]

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mag m (plural mags, feminine maga, feminine plural magues)

1. magician; wizard
2. magus (Zoroastrian priest)

• màgic
• Reis Mags

• “mag”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “mag”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “mag” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mag” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Middle Low German mak (“ease, calm”), related to Old Saxon makon (“to make”).

mag c or n

1. rest

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• Rhymes: -ɑx
• IPA^(key): /mɑx/

mag

1. inflection of mogen:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

• IPA^(key): /maːk/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /ma(ː)x/ (northern and central Germany, now chiefly colloquial)

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• Rhymes: -aːk, -aːx, -ax
• Homophone: mach (regional)

mag

1. first/third-person singular present of mögen

mag

1. romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐌲

Probably from Proto-Finno-Ugric *moŋke (“body”).^[1][2] Cognates include Komi-Zyrian мыг (myg, “waist of women's clothing”), мыгӧр (mygör, “body, silhouette, torso”) and Eastern Mari могыр (mogyr, “body, figure”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɒɡ]
• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

mag (plural magok)

1. seed, pip, stone, pit, core (the central part of fruits)
2. kernel, core, nucleus (the most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence)
3. ellipsis of processzormag (“core”, an individual computer processor)
4. sperm

Variant plural and possessive forms:

• mag in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

• maag (nonstandard)

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch maag (“stomach”), from Middle Dutch māge, from Old Dutch *mago, from Proto-Germanic *magô.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmah/, /ˈmax/

mag

1. (colloquial) gastritis
2. (colloquial, rare) stomach

   Synonym: lambung

• “mag” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• (Courland) ma'g

From Proto-Finnic *mako. Related to Finnish maha.

mag

1. stomach
2. belly

From Proto-Celtic *magos (“plain, field”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“big, great”) (compare Sanskrit मही (mahī́, “earth”) from the same root).

• IPA^(key): /maɣ/

mag n (genitive maige, nominative plural maige)

1. a plain, field

• Irish: má
• Scottish Gaelic: magh

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mag”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 253

Learned borrowing from Latin magus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmak/

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• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: mag
• Homophones: mak, Mak

mag m pers

2. (folklore, fantasy) magician, wizard, sorcerer, conjurer, mage, magus (person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic)

   Synonyms: czarnoksiężnik, czarodziej, czarownik

3. (figurative) magician, wizard (person who is especially skilled or unusually talented in a particular field)

   Synonyms: cudotwórca, czarodziej

5. (historical, Zoroastrianism) magus (priest in Zoroastrianism and earlier Iranian religions)

   Hypernym: kapłan

7. (biblical, Christianity) Magus (one of the three Biblical Magi who visit Jesus after his birth, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh in homage to him)

• mag in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mag in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• mag in PWN's encyclopedia

Borrowed from Greek μάγος (mágos) (and perhaps partly through Old Church Slavonic магъ (magŭ)), from Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos). Also more recently borrowed in part from Latin magus, itself of the same Greek origin.

mag m (plural magi)

1. magus (priest in some ancient eastern cultures, like Iranian/Zoroastrian)
2. (Christianity) one of the three kings or Magi who visited the baby Jesus
3. (figuratively) by extension, an envoy, messenger, herald, announcer

   Synonyms: sol, vestitor

4. wizard, magician, sorceror

   Synonyms: vrăjitor, magician

5. astrologer (or one who predicts the future through the stars), seer

   Synonym: astrolog

6. wise man; philosopher

   Synonyms: învățat, filozof

• magic
• magie
• amăgi

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mag (past mhag, future magaidh, verbal noun magadh, past participle magte)

1. mock, deride

Back-formation from magu (“to rear; to breed”).

• IPA^(key): /maːɡ/

mag m (uncountable)

1. fry (young fish)

   Synonym: silod

• IPA^(key): /maɡ/

mag

1. nasal mutation of bag

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mag (definite form mag ji)

1. older sibling

   Antonym: rakk