drage

• draan, droon (chiefly Moselle Franconian)

From Middle High German dragen, from Old High German *dragan, northern variant of tragan, from Proto-Germanic *draganą.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʀaːɣə/

drage (third-person singular present drät, past tense drooch, past participle jedrage)

1. (most of Ripuarian) to carry, bear, wear

From Old Danish draghæ, drake, Old East Norse *draki, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō.

• IPA^(key): [ˈd̥ʁɑːwə], [ˈd̥ʁɑːʊ]

drage c (singular definite dragen, plural indefinite drager)

1. dragon (legendary creature)
2. drake (a small type of wingless dragon)
3. kite
4. hang glider (unpowered aircraft)
5. dragon keelboat
6. Viking longship

From Old Danish draghæ, from Old Norse draga, from Proto-Germanic *draganą, cognate with English draw and drag and German tragen. The Germanic verb goes back to Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“pull, draw, drag”), cf. Ancient Greek τρέχω (trékhō, “to run”) (Latin trahō (“to pull”) has a problematic t-).

• IPA^(key): [ˈd̥ʁɑːwə], [ˈd̥ʁɑːʊ]

drage (imperative drag, present drager, past drog, past participle n draget, c dragen, pl dragne)

1. draw
2. attract, allure
3. go, march, travel

From French dragée, via Latin tragēmata n pl (“dried fruits”) from Ancient Greek τραγήματα n pl (tragḗmata, “dried fruits, sweetmeats”).

• dragé

• IPA^(key): [d̥ʁɑˈɕe]

drage c (singular definite drageen, plural indefinite drageer)

1. dragée

• “drage” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “drage” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

drage

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of dragen

Inherited from Danish drage, from Proto-West Germanic *drakō (either through Middle Low German drāke^[1] or through a hypothetical eastern Old Norse *draki corresponding to western dreki). Further from Latin draco, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn). One of the fairly rare cases in which a form with lenited Danish b, d, g has persisted in Bokmål (the Norwegianized form drake remaining less common).

drage m (definite singular dragen, indefinite plural drager, definite plural dragene)

1. dragon
2. kite

• drake

Inherited from Danish drage. See this and the lemma form for more.

drage (present tense drager, past tense drog, past participle draget)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by dra

• “drage” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “drage” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

drage (present tense dreg, past tense drog, supine drege, past participle dregen, present participle dragande, imperative drag)

1. e-infinitive form of draga

• IPA^(key): /ˈdrɑ.ɡe/, [ˈdrɑ.ɣe]

drage

1. inflection of dragan:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. singular present subjunctive

drage

1. plural of dragă

drage (Cyrillic spelling драге)

1. inflection of drag:
   1. masculine accusative plural
   2. feminine genitive singular
   3. feminine nominative/accusative/vocative plural

drage (Cyrillic spelling драге)

1. inflection of draga:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

From Old Frisian draga, from Proto-West Germanic *dragan.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdraɣə/

drage

1. to carry

• “drage”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011