blago

From French blague.

• IPA^(key): /ˈblaɡo/

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• Hyphenation: bla‧go
• Rhymes: -aɡo

blago (accusative singular blagon, plural blagoj, accusative plural blagojn)

1. jocular lie; act of pulling someone's leg
2. nonsense

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin baculum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈblaɡo/

blago m (plural blagos)

1. rod, staff, walking stick
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 6r:

     viola iuda cubierta e nola cõnoçio. E cuedo q̃ era putana. E dixol ẏaz comẏgo ⁊ dẏxo ella q̃ me daras. Acordarõ ſe q̃l dieſſe uncabrito e diol pẽnos ſo anẏello. Ela cinta q̃ cinnẏa. E el blago q̃ tenẏa. en su mano.

     Judah saw her covered and did not recognize her, and he assumed she was a prostitute. And he said to her, “Lay with me”, and she replied, “What will you give me?” They agreed he would give her a young goat, and he pledged her his ring and his girdle and the staff he had in his hand.

   • Idem, f. 23r.

     Sacco moẏſen todos los blagos auiſta de fijos de iſrꝉ. dixo el nr̃o ſeñor amoẏſen Torna elblago de aarõ delant el teſtamẽt por guardo lo por ſenal a fijos de isrꝉ ⁊ q̃dar ſe an ſus q̃rellas de ſobre mj e nõ morã

     Moses brought out all the staffs in view of the children of Israel. Our Lord said to Moses, “Put Aaron's staff in front of the Testimony to keep as a sign for the children of Israel, and they will hold back their complaints against me, and they will not die.”

• Spanish: blago

From adjective blag.

• IPA^(key): /blâːɡo/
• Hyphenation: bla‧go

blȃgo (Cyrillic spelling бла̑го)

1. mildly, gently

• “blago”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /blâɡo/
• Hyphenation: bla‧go

blȁgo (Cyrillic spelling бла̏го)

1. (exclamation, dative) expressing satisfaction, encouragement or congratulation about something that has just occurred or was heard from the interlocutor; good for you, good on you

   blago tebi! ― good for you!

• “blago”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bolgo.

• IPA^(key): /blâːɡo/
• Hyphenation: bla‧go

blȃgo n (Cyrillic spelling бла̑го)

1. treasure
2. cattle
3. wealth

• “blago”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From Proto-Slavic *bolgo.

• IPA^(key): /blaɡóː/

blagọ̑ n

1. goods
2. textile, fabric
3. (archaic) property
4. (western) cattle

The plural can be either the regular neuter blága or the masculine blagôvi.

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• “blago”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025