marga

Borrowed from Sanskrit मार्ग (mārga). Doublet of marg.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːɡə/
• Rhymes: (UK) -ɑːɡə

marga (countable and uncountable, plural margas)

1. (South Asia) The canon of established forms of classical music, dance etc., as opposed to modern or regional developments. [from 19th c.]
2. (Hinduism, yoga) Any of various paths or courses seen as leading to enlightenment. [from 20th c.]
3. (Buddhism) The noble eightfold path. [from 20th c.]

From Jamaican Creole mawga, derived from English meagre.

• (MLE) IPA^(key): [mɑːɡɐ]

marga (plural margas)

1. (MLE, vulgar) Someone of undernourished figure.
   • 2018 June 25, K.O., “Rolling Round”‎^[1], 1:05–1:07:

     Bro said he really don't lack to much
     I reply, can't you see it's a marga

   • 2020 April 14, Russ Millions, “Playground 2”‎^[2], 1:00–1:03:

     Big Russ, not marga
     I still got a crush on Zara

   • 2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Tanice (Llewella Gideon):

     That marga boy you brought round… […] He ain't your type, baby.

• Magar, grama, ragam, rāgam

From Old Javanese mārga (“road, path”), from Sanskrit मार्ग (mārga, “way, road, route, path”).

• IPA^(key): /marɡə/

marga (Balinese script ᬫᬵᬃᬕ or ᬫᬃᬕ or ᬫᬵᬃᬕ᭄ᬕ)

1. road

• “marga” in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia], Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

marga

1. genitive singular of mark

marga o

1. store, shop, depot
2. (historical) an agricultural village, farm, agricultural lands with homes on it

• Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.

• Ultimately from Pali magga (“oath; road”) and Sanskrit मार्ग (mārga, “reach, range; mark, scar; track of a wild animal”), vṛddhi derivative of मृग (mṛga, “game animal; deer”).
  • Inherited from Malay marga (“wild animal”), from Classical Malay marga, from Old Malay margga (“track, way”) (as in Talang Tuwo inscription (684 CE)), came from above.
  • The sense of clan is a semantic loan from Toba Batak marga (“clan”), came from above.
  • The sense of hamlet is a semantic loan from Musi marga (“hamlet”), came from above.
  • The sense of road is a semantic loan from Javanese ꦩꦂꦒ (marga, “road”), came from above.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmarɡa/ [ˈmar.ɡa]

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• Rhymes: -arɡa
• Syllabification: mar‧ga

marga (plural marga-marga)

1. (obsolete) wild animal
2. surname; family name
3. (anthropology) clan

   Synonym: klan

   1. specifically, the marga, Batak clan
4. (historical) hamlet, a small village or a group of houses, in South Sumatra
5. (biology, taxonomy) genus, a rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank

   Synonym: genus

6. (only in compounds) way, road, route, path

   Direktorat Jenderal Bina Marga ― General Directorate of Road Development

   Jasa Marga ― Road Service

   Synonym: jalan

• “marga” 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.

marga

1. romanization of ꦩꦂꦒ

From Celtic, probably Gaulish (Pliny). The word has been compared to Breton marg as well as the placename Margidinum; compare Welsh marian (“rocks, pebbles, grit”) from Proto-Brythonic *marɣ-, but probably ultimately of Pre-Celtic substrate origin. Compare Aldo murgia.

marga f (genitive margae); first declension

1. (geology) marl

First-declension noun.

• margila
  • Old French: marle
    • French: marne
    • → Middle English: marle, marl, merle
      • English: marl
      • Scots: marl
      • Yola: maarl
      • → Irish: marla, márla (superseded)
        • → English: marla

• “marga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "marga", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, Volumes 109-110, p. 46
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “marian”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
• An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Mergel

marga

1. inflection of margr:
   1. strong feminine accusative singular
   2. strong masculine accusative plural
   3. weak feminine nominative singular
   4. weak masculine accusative/dative/genitive singular
   5. weak neuter singular

marga

1. accusative/genitive plural of margr

marga

1. grass

• Gamtaa, Xilaahun (2004) Galmee Afaan Oromo fi Afaan Ingilizii Barsiisuu - Comprehensive Oromo-English-Dictionary (COED), New York, USA: Karrayyuu Publishing, →ISBN, page 577

• IPA^(key): /ˈmar.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -arɡa
• Syllabification: mar‧ga

marga

1. third-person singular present indicative of margać

Borrowed from Latin marga, from Celtic/Gaulish.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -aʁɡɐ, (Portugal) -aɾɡɐ
• Hyphenation: mar‧ga

marga f (plural margas)

1. (geology) marl (lime-rich mud)

• “marga”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “marga”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

From Latin marga, from Celtic/Gaulish.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɾɡa/ [ˈmaɾ.ɣ̞a]
• Rhymes: -aɾɡa
• Syllabification: mar‧ga

marga f (plural margas)

1. (geology) marl

• “marga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024