# mag
## Translingual
### Symbol

mag
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Magahi.

## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mæɡ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -æɡ

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

mag (plural mags)
* (colloquial) Clipping of magazine.
    NY Mag ― New York Magazine
    stash of porno mags
* (colloquial) Clipping of magnet.
    Get the mag in there to clear away the scrap.
* (colloquial, especially medicine) Clipping of magnesium.
    She looks fine on physical exam, but I don't like these low mag levels.
* (colloquial, automotive) Ellipsis of mag wheel.
    brand new tires and factory-original mags
* (astronomy) Clipping of magnitude.
* (colloquial, law) Clipping of magistrate.
* (colloquial) Clipping of magnetometer.
    mag hits
    Some marine salvagers might be interested in these unusual mag hits.
** 2010, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Legislative Branch, Legislative Branch Appropriations for 2011: Hearings..., page 171:The policy is that all staff entering the Capitol are required to go through the mags whether or not they are with a Member of Congress.
** 2022 June 28, Luke Broadwater, Michael S. Schmidt, quoting Donald Trump, “Trump Urged Armed Supporters to Capitol, White House Aide Testifies”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:“Take the f-ing mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here.”

##### Derived terms

* bongo mag
* fag mag
* girlie mag
* girly mag
* jazz mag
* K-Mag
* lad mag
* mag book
* mag dump
* mag-slip
* mag slip
* mag tape
* porno mag
* skin mag
* stroke mag
* tit mag

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

mag (third-person singular simple present mags, present participle magging, simple past and past participle magged)
* (transitive, obsolete, thieves' cant) To steal.
* (intransitive, obsolete, thieves' cant) To talk.
** 2015, Eric Lambert, The Twenty Thousand Thieves
    "Is that why you're always magging with Pascoe?" Horrible John went on. […] "So that's why you and him are always talking. And here's me thinkin' you was crawlin' for stripes."

##### Derived terms

* magsman
* magpie

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

mag (plural mags)
* (UK, slang, obsolete) A halfpenny.
** 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:"Why, of course you wanted to get in," Mr. Bucket asserts with cheerfulness; "but for a old gentleman at your time of life […] not to consider that if he don't keep such a business as the present as close as possible it can't be worth a mag to him, is so curious! You see your temper got the better of you; that's where you lost ground," says Mr. Bucket in an argumentative and friendly way.
** 1861, Philip William Perfitt, The Pathfinder, page 377:When all your tin is gone and spent, And you've not a mag for bread or rent

### Anagrams

* MGA, GMA, Gam., AMG, gma, GAM, AGM, gam

## Afrikaans
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maχ/

### Etymology 1

From Dutch mogen, from Middle Dutch mogen, from Old Dutch mugan, from Proto-Germanic *maganą, from Proto-Indo-European *magʰ-, *megʰ-.

#### Verb

mag (present mag, past mog)
* may, might

##### Usage notes

The preterite form mog is archaic and rarely used.

### Etymology 2

From Dutch macht, from Middle Dutch macht, from Old Dutch *maht, from Proto-Germanic *mahtiz, from Proto-Indo-European *mógʰtis.

#### Noun

mag (plural magte)
* might; power

## Albanian
### Alternative forms

* mang, makth

### Etymology

Denasalized variant of mang.

### Noun

mag m (plural magë, definite magu, definite plural magët)
* rabbit, hinny

#### Related terms

* makth
* meksh

### References
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin magus, from Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos). First attested in 1803.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmak]

### Noun

mag m (plural mags, feminine maga)
* magician; wizard
* magus (Zoroastrian priest)

#### Related terms

* màgic
* Reis Mags

### References

* ↑ “mag”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

### Further reading

* “mag” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “mag”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “mag” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “mag” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Danish
### Etymology

From Middle Low German mak (“ease, calm”), related to Old Saxon makon (“to make”).

### Noun

mag c or n
* rest

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑx
* IPA: /mɑx/

### Verb

mag
* inflection of mogen:
** first/second/third-person singular present indicative
** imperative

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maːk/ (standard)
* IPA: /max/ (northern and central Germany, now chiefly colloquial)
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aːk, -ax
* Homophone: mach (regional only)

### Verb

mag
* first/third-person singular present of mögen

## Gothic
### Romanization

mag
* Romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐌲

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Probably from Proto-Finno-Ugric *muŋkɜ (“body”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmɒɡ]
* Rhymes: -ɒɡ

### Noun

mag (plural magok)
* seed, pip, stone, pit, core (the central part of fruits)
* kernel, core, nucleus (the most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence)
* Ellipsis of processzormag (“core”, an individual computer processor).

#### Declension

Variant plural and possessive forms:

#### Derived terms

* maga
* magocska
* magos
* magoz
* magtalan
* magvas
* magzat
* magfizika
* magfúzió
* maghasadás
* magház
* maghéj
* magömlés
* magtár
* magvetés
* atommag
* barackmag
* cseresznyemag
* fenyőmag
* fűmag
* mustármag
* napraforgómag
* processzormag
* rendszermag
* sejtmag
* szezámmag
* tökmag
* vetőmag

#### References

* ↑ Entry #563 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
* ↑ mag in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

### Further reading

* mag in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Indonesian
### Alternative forms

* maag (nonstandard)

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch maag (“stomach”), from Middle Dutch māge, from Old Dutch *mago, from Proto-Germanic *magô.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmah/, /ˈmax/

### Noun

mag
* (colloquial) gastritis
* (colloquial, rare) stomach
    Synonym: lambung

### Further reading

* “mag” 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.

## Livonian
### Alternative forms

* (Courland) ma'g

### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mako. Related to Finnish maha.

### Noun

mag
* stomach
* belly

## Old Irish
### Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *magos (“plain, field”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“big, great”) (compare Sanskrit मही (mahī́, “earth”) from the same root).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maɣ/

### Noun

mag n (genitive maige, nominative plural maige)
* a plain, field

#### Declension

* $^H$ = triggers aspiration
* $^L$ = triggers lenition
* $^N$ = triggers nasalization

#### Derived terms

* ármag
* i mmach
* i mmaig

#### Descendants

* Irish: má
* Scottish Gaelic: magh

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mag”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 253

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin magus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmak/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ak
* Syllabification: mag
* Homophones: mak, Mak

### Noun

mag m pers
* (folklore, fantasy) magician, wizard, sorcerer, conjurer, mage, magus (person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic)
    Synonyms: czarnoksiężnik, czarodziej, czarownik
* (figurative) magician, wizard (person who is especially skilled or unusually talented in a particular field)
    Synonyms: cudotwórca, czarodziej
* (historical, Zoroastrianism) magus (priest in Zoroastrianism and earlier Iranian religions)
    Hypernym: kapłan
* (biblical, Christianity) Magus (one of the three Biblical Magi who visit Jesus after his birth, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh in homage to him)

#### Related terms

* magiczny
* magicznie
* magia
* magiczka
* magiczność
* magik

### Further reading

* mag in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* mag in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* mag in PWN's encyclopedia

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Greek μάγος (mágos) (and perhaps partly through Old Church Slavonic магъ (magŭ)), from Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos). Also more recently borrowed in part from Latin magus, itself of the same Greek origin.

### Noun

mag m (plural magi)
* magus (priest in some ancient eastern cultures, like Iranian/Zoroastrian)
* (Christianity) one of the three kings or Magi who visited the baby Jesus
* (figuratively) by extension, an envoy, messenger, herald, announcer
    Synonyms: sol, vestitor
* wizard, magician, sorceror
    Synonyms: vrăjitor, magician
* astrologer (or one who predicts the future through the stars), seer
    Synonym: astrolog
* wise man; philosopher
    Synonyms: învățat, filozof

#### Related terms

* magic
* magie
* amăgi

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

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

### Verb

mag (past mhag, future magaidh, verbal noun magadh, past participle magte)
* mock, deride

## Welsh
### Etymology 1

Back-formation of magu (“to rear; to breed”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maːɡ/

#### Noun

mag m (uncountable)
* fry (young fish)
    Synonym: silod

#### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maɡ/

#### Noun

mag
* Nasal mutation of bag.

#### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Wolof
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

mag (definite form mag ji)
* older sibling
    Antonym: rakk