# luggage
## English
### Etymology

1590s, lug (“to drag”) +‎ -age, literally “that which is lugged, dragged around”. Duplicate -g- is to clarify pronunciation of the vowel ‘u’ (which is pronounced unchanged from lug). Compare baggage.

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) enPR: lŭg'ĭj, IPA: /ˈlʌɡɪd͡ʒ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (South Asia) IPA: /laˈɡeːd͡ʒ/
* Rhymes: -ʌɡɪdʒ
* Hyphenation: lug‧gage

### Noun

luggage (usually uncountable, plural luggages)
* (uncountable) The bags and other containers that hold a traveller's belongings.
** August 4, 1726, Jonathan Swift, letter to Alexander Pope
    I am gathering up my luggage, and preparing for my journey.
* (uncountable) The contents of such containers.
* (countable, nonstandard or obsolete) A specific bag or container holding a traveller's belongings.
** 1858, “Letter from Rev. George L. Seymour”, in The African Repository and Colonial Journal, volume 34, page 13:I assisted some time ago in cutting up a tree, that made tolerably good turns or luggage for nineteen or twenty persons, which could be procured for about two dollars at the stump.
** 1875, W. G. Willson, Report of the Midnapore and Burdwan Cyclone of the 15th and 16th of October 1874‎:The passengers injured who could not get out were removed out by the railway staff, and then taking part of the luggage the train started back for Burdwan.
** 1964 [1957], Colin MacInnes, City of Spades, London: Penguin Books, page 15:Namely, leaving my luggages at the Government hostel, to go straight out by taxi (oh, so slow, compared with our sleek Lagos limousines!) to the famous central Piccadilly Tube station where I took a onestop ticket, went down on the escalator, and then ran up the same steps in the wrong direction.

#### Synonyms

* baggage

#### Derived terms

* cabin luggage
* carry-on luggage
* checked luggage
* hand luggage
* hold luggage
* left luggage
* left-luggage office
* luggage barrow
* luggage car
* luggage cart
* luggage hold
* luggage rack
* luggage trolley
* luggage van

#### Translations

Afrikaans: bagasie
Albanian: bagazh (sq) m
Amharic: ሻንጣ (šanṭa)
Arabic: أَمْتِعَة m pl (ʔamtiʕa), عَفْش m (ʕafš)
Egyptian Arabic: عفش m (ʕafš)
Moroccan Arabic: بكاج (bakāž)
Armenian: ուղեբեռ (hy) (uġebeṙ)
Azerbaijani: baqaj, yük (az)
Bashkir: багаж (bagaj), йөк (yök)
Belarusian: бага́ж (be) m (baháž)
Bengali: মাল (bn) (mal), সামান (bn) (śaman)
Bhojpuri: सामान (sāmān)
Bulgarian: бага́ж (bg) m (bagáž)
Burmese: ဝန်စည်စလယ် (my) (wancanyca.lai)
Catalan: equipatge (ca) m, bagatge m
Chichewa: katundu
Chinese:
Cantonese: 行李 (hang$^4$ lei$^5$)
Mandarin: 行李 (zh) (xínglǐ), 行李箱 (zh) (xínglixiāng), 旅行箱 (zh) (lǚxíngxiāng) (for cases); 行李包 (xíngli bāo), 旅行包 (lǚxíng bāo) (for bags); 箱籠 / 箱笼 (zh) (xiānglǒng)
Crimean Tatar: bagaj
Czech: zavazadlo (cs) n, zavazadla n pl
Danish: bagage (da) c
Dutch: bagage (nl) f
Egyptian: (qnj m)
Esperanto: pakaĵo, bagaĝo
Estonian: pagas (et)
Finnish: matkatavarat
French: bagage (fr) m
Galician: bagaxe f, equipaxe (gl) f
Gallurese: bagagliu
Georgian: ბარგი (bargi)
German: Gepäck (de) n, Gepäckstück (de) n, Reisegepäck (de) n, (metaphorical) Ballast (de) m
Greek: αποσκευές (el) f pl (aposkevés)
Ancient: σκεῦος n (skeûos)
Hebrew: מִטְעָן (he) m (mitán)
Hindi: सामान (hi) m (sāmān)
Hungarian: poggyász (hu), csomag (hu)
Icelandic: farangur (is) m
Ido: bagajo (io)
Indonesian: bagasi (id)
Irish: bagáiste m
Italian: bagagli (it) m pl
Japanese: 荷物 (ja) (にもつ, nimotsu), 手荷物 (ja) (てにもつ, tenimotsu)
Kazakh: багаж (bagaj), жүк (jük)
Khmer: ភារវត្ថុ (phiərĕəʼvŏətthoʼ)
Korean: 수하물(手荷物) (ko) (suhamul), 짐 (ko) (jim)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: bagaj (ku)
Kyrgyz: багаж (ky) (bagaj), жүк (ky) (jük)
Lao: ກະເປົາ (lo) (ka pao)
Latin: sarcinae f pl
Latvian: bagāža f
Lithuanian: bagažas (lt) m
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: begazie, pakkazie
Luhya: kumzigo
Macedonian: багаж m (bagaž), патни торби f pl (patni torbi)
Malay: bagasi (ms)
Maori: tueke (used as a plural), kawenga
Mongolian: ачаа (mn) (ačaa), тээш (mn) (teeš), багааж (bagaaž)
North Frisian: (Mooring) bagoosch n
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bagasje (no) m
Nynorsk: bagasje m
Occitan: bagatge (oc) m
Pashto: لټ لوپړي m (laṭ lupṛi), ډانګډبلی m (ḍagḍablay), کډه کوډه f (kaḍa kuḍa)
Persian: چمدان (fa) (čamedân), بار (fa) (bâr), توشه (fa) (tuše) (archaic), زاد (fa) (zâd) (archaic), وسیله (fa) (vasile), وسایل (fa) (vasâyel)
Plautdietsch: Jepak n
Polish: bagaż (pl) m
Portuguese: bagagem (pt) f
Romanian: bagaj (ro) n
Russian: бага́ж (ru) m (bagáž)
Sardinian:
Campidanese: bagalliu, strexu
Logudorese: badàlcu, badalculu, bagalliu, bagagliu
Scottish Gaelic: lòdrach f, pacraidhe f, sacraidh f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пр̀тља̄г m, пртља́га m
Roman: pr̀tljāg (sh) m, prtljága (sh) m
Sinhalese: ගමන් මලු (gaman malu)
Slovak: batožina (sk) f
Slovene: prtljaga (sl) f
Spanish: equipaje (es) m
Swahili: mzigo (sw)
Swedish: bagage (sv) c
Tagalog: dala-dalahan, bagahe
Tajik: бағоҷ (baġoj), бор (tg) (bor)
Tatar: багаж (bağaj), йөк (tt) (yök)
Telugu: సామాను (te) (sāmānu)
Thai: สัมภาระ (th) (sǎm-paa-rá), กระเป๋าเดินทาง (grà-bpǎo-dəən-taang), หีบห่อ (hìip-hɔ̀ɔ)
Tibetan: དོ་པོ (do po)
Turkish: bagaj (tr), yük (tr)
Turkmen: bagaž (tk), ýük
Ukrainian: бага́ж (uk) m (baháž)
Urdu: سامان m (sāmān)
Uyghur: يۈك-تاق (yük-taq), شىڭلى (shingli), يۈك (yük)
Uzbek: bagaj (uz), yuk (uz)
Vietnamese: hành lý (vi) (行李)
West Frisian: bagaazje
Yiddish: באַגאַזש m (bagazh) :

### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “luggage”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.