sag

Abbreviation of English Sango or Sango Sängö.

sag

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Sango terms

From earlier sag, sagg, sack, from Middle English saggen, probably from Middle Low German sacken (“to sink, drift”), ultimately of North Germanic/Scandinavian/Old Norse origin, akin to Old Norse søkkva (“to sink”), from a denasalized derivative of Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną (“to sink”).^[1] Cognate with Scots seg (“to sink”), Danish sakke (“to lag behind”), Swedish sacka (“to lag”), Icelandic sakka (“to sink”), Faroese søkka (“to sink, drop down, descend, set”), Dutch zakken (“to fall, drop, sink”), German Low German sacken (“to sink”), and German sacken (“to sink”) (from Low German).

Compare also Norwegian Nynorsk sagga (“to walk or move heavily and slowly”).

• seg, segg (dialectal)
• sack (obsolete)

• (without æ-raising before /ɡ/) IPA^(key): /ˈsæɡ/, [ˈsæɡ]

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• (æ-raising before /ɡ/)
  • (Upper Midwestern US, Northwestern US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈseɪ̯ɡ/, [ˈseɪ̯ɡ]
• Rhymes: -æɡ
• Hyphenation: sag

sag (countable and uncountable, plural sags)

1. The state of sinking or bending; a droop.
2. The difference in elevation of a wire, cable, chain or rope suspended between two consecutive points.
3. The difference in height or depth between the vertex and the rim of a curved surface, specifically used for optical elements such as a mirror or lens.
4. A place where the surface (of a seat, the earth, etc) sinks or droops, like a depression or a dip in a ridge.
   • 1905, Louis Valentine Pirsson, Petrography and Geology of the Igneous Rocks of the Highwood ..., page 43:

     a mass of igneous rock […] shown as a semicircular area of shonkinite exposed in the west wall of the sag. From the valley below, it appears as a dark cliff, perhaps 100 feet in height and a few hundred yards long.

   • 2016 March 10, William T. Parry, Geology of Utah's Mountains, Peaks, and Plateaus: Including descriptions of cliffs, valleys, and climate history, FriesenPress, →ISBN:

     Gunsight Peak north of the sag marks the southern end of the Malad Range that extends into Idaho. Complexly faulted Cambrian and Ordovician shelf sedimentary rocks are present […]

sag (third-person singular simple present sags, present participle sagging, simple past and past participle sagged)

1. To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane.

   A line or cable supported by its ends sags, even if it is tightly drawn.

   The floor of a room sags.

   Her once firm bosom began to sag in her thirties.

2. (by extension) To lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position.

   A building may sag one way or another.

   The door sags on its hinges.

   • 1890, Great Britain. High Court of Justice. Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division, The Law Reports. Probate Division in the Courts of Probate and Divorce: In the Admiralty and Ecclesiastical Courts, and in the Privy Council, from Michaelmas Sittings, 1875, to 1890 (volume 5)

     The weather became more and more threatening; the ship sagged to the leeward more than she ought.

3. (figuratively) To lose firmness, elasticity, vigor, or a thriving state; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced.
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:

     The mind I sway by, and the heart I bear, / Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.

4. To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.
5. (transitive) To cause to bend or give way; to load.
6. (informal) To wear one's trousers so that their top is well below the waist.
7. (informal, Canada) To pull down someone else's pants as a prank.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:sag.

sag (usually uncountable, plural sags)

1. Alternative form of saag.
   • 2003, Charles Campion, The Rough Guide to London Restaurants, page 173:

     The dal tarka (£5) is made from whole yellow split peas, while sag aloo (£5) brings potatoes in a rich and oily spinach puree.

• AGs, GSA, GAs, AGS, GAS, ags, Gas, ASG, SGA, Ags., gas

From Dutch zacht.

• IPA^(key): /saχ/, [säχ], [sɐχ]

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sag (attributive sagte, comparative sagter, superlative sagste)

1. soft

From Old Danish sak, from Old Norse sǫk, from Proto-Germanic *sakō. Cognate with Swedish sak, Icelandic sök, English sake, Dutch zaak, German Sache.

• IPA^(key): /saːɡ/, [sæːˀj]
• Rhymes: -aːɡ

sag c (singular definite sagen, plural indefinite sager)

1. matter, affair

   Jeg er ikke bekendt med alle sagens detaljer.

   I am not acquainted with all the details of the matter.

2. cause (grand mission)

   Jeg er villig til at dø for sagen.

   I am willing to die for the cause.

3. thing

   Jeg går lige ind og pakker mine sager ud.

   I'll go inside and pack out my things.

4. case, lawsuit

   Den 27-årige nægtede sig skyldig i spritkørsel, så sagen måtte udsættes.

   The 27-year-old pleaded not guilty to drunk driving, so the case had to be adjourned.

5. file

   Jeg tog mine papirer og sager med mig hjem.

   I took my papers and cases home with me.

6. food (only in plural)

   Tjeneren var ved at stable en masse lækre sager op på bordet.

   The waiter was stacking a lot of delicious things on the table.

• (legal case): retssag

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

From Old Norse sǫg, from Proto-Germanic *sagō, from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).

• IPA^(key): /sɛaː/
• Homophone: sæð

sag f (genitive singular sagar, plural sagir)

1. saw; a tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal

• sagarblað
• sagarmaður
• sagartonn

• IPA^(key): /zaːk/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /zax/ (northern and central Germany; very common)

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• Rhymes: -aːk, -ax

sag

1. singular imperative of sagen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of sagen

From the verb saga (“to saw”).

• IPA^(key): /saːɣ/
• Rhymes: -aːɣ

sag n (genitive singular sags, no plural)

1. sawdust

• gas

From Old Norse sǫg, from Proto-Germanic *sagō, from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).

sag f or m (definite singular saga or sagen, indefinite plural sager, definite plural sagene)

1. (tools) a saw
2. sawmill

sag

1. imperative of sage

• “sag” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse sǫg.

sag f (definite singular saga, indefinite plural sager, definite plural sagene)

1. (tools) a saw
2. sawmill

• saga (“to saw”)

• “sag” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /sɑːɡ/, [sɑːɣ]
• Rhymes: -ɑːɡ

sāg

1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative of sīgan

From Latin sagum.

• IPA^(key): /sâːɡ/

sȃg m inan (Cyrillic spelling са̑г)

1. carpet, rug

   Synonym: tèpih