zaga

zaga

1. third-person singular/plural past indicative of zagt

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Kuyavia) IPA^(key): /ˈza.ɡa/

zaga f

1. (Kuyavia) alternative form of żaga

• Józef Bliziński (1860) “zaga”, in Abecadłowy spis wyrazów języka ludowego w Kujawach i Galicyi Zachodniej (in Polish), Warszawa, page 633
• Władysław Matlakowski (1892) “zaga”, in Słownik wyrazów ludowych zebranych w Czerskiem i na Kujawach (in Polish), Kraków: nakł. Akademii Umiejętności; Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego pod zarządem A. M. Kosterkiewicza, page 21

Borrowed from Spanish zaga,^[1][2] from Andalusian Arabic صَٰقَا (çáqā), from Arabic صَقَا (ṣaqā, “rear”).

• Rhymes: -aɡɐ
• Hyphenation: za‧ga

zaga f (plural zagas)

1. (military, archaic) rear (the part of an army or fleet which comes last)

   Synonym: retaguarda

2. (Brazil, sports) defence (portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring)

• zagueiro

• 𐴎𐴝𐴒𐴝 (zaga) — Hanifi Rohingya script

Borrowed from Classical Persian جایگاه (jāygāh), from جای (jāy, “place”) +‎ ـگاه (-gāh, location suffix). Cognate with Bengali জায়গা (jaẏga), Sylheti ꠎꠦꠉꠣ (zega), Assamese জেগা (zega), Odia ଜାଗା (jāgā), Maithili जगह (jagah), Bhojpuri जगह (jagah), Chhattisgarhi जघा (jaghā), Bundeli जगा (jagā), Hindi जगह (jagah), Nepali जग्गा (jaggā), Marwari जागा (jāgā), जायगा (jāygā), Gojri جَگَہ (jagah), Gujarati જગ્યા (jagyā), Malvi जगे (jage), Wagdi जगा (jagā), Punjabi ਜਗ੍ਹਾ (jaghā), Sindhi جاڳَهَ (jāg̈aha), Marathi ज़ागा (j̈āgā), Konkani ज़ागो (j̈āgo), Telugu జాగ (jāga), Tamil சாகை (cākai).

zaga (Hanifi spelling 𐴎𐴝𐴒𐴝)

1. land

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic صَٰقَا (çáqā), from Arabic صَقَا (ṣaqā, “rear”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈθaɡa/ [ˈθa.ɣ̞a] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɡa/ [ˈsa.ɣ̞a] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Syllabification: za‧ga

zaga f (plural zagas)

1. rear (back part of someone or something)
2. (sports) defense, rearguard

• “zaga”, 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