# mage
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English mages (plurale tantum), from Latin magus, from Ancient Greek Μάγος (Mágos), from the hapax Old Persian 𐎶𐎦𐎢𐏁 (m-gu-u-š /⁠maguš⁠/). Doublet of magus.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: māj, IPA: /meɪd͡ʒ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

### Noun

mage (plural magi or mages)
* (chiefly fantasy) A magician, wizard, sorcerer, witch, warlock or mystic.
* (obsolete) Synonym of magus: a Zoroastrian priest.
** c. 1790, Edward Gibbon, On the Position of the Meridional Line, and the supposed Circumnavigation of Africa by the Ancients; republished as The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq. […] , volume 5, 1814, pages 186–87:While the liberality of Gelo and his brother Hiero atracted every stranger who could amuse or instruct the court of Syracuse, a Persian Mage related to the former of those princes that he himself had circumnavigated the whole continent of Africa.

#### Synonyms

* (practitioner of allegedly supernatural magic): magic user, spellcaster, enchanter, conjurer, thaumaturge, theurgist
* (spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts): spiritualist, mystic, shaman, witch doctor

#### Derived terms

* archmage
* black mage
* blood mage

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* MEGA, Mega, game, mega, mega-

## Afrikaans
### Noun

mage
* plural of maag

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmæːjə], [ˈmæːæ]

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse maki, from Proto-Germanic *makô, *gamakô, cognate with English match.

#### Noun

mage c (singular definite magen, plural indefinite mager)
* fellow (one of a pair, or of two things used together)
* mate (of an animal)
* husband, wife, spouse
* match, equal
    Har man set magen!
       Has anyone seen the likes of this!

##### Derived terms

* mage til, magen til ("identical", lit. "(the) match of")

##### Further reading

* “mage,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
* “mage,1” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

#### Adjective

mage (uninflected)
* (dated) matching
    Synonym: umage
** 1895, Magdalene Thoresen, Livsluft: fortaellinger, page 2:Den store Kjærlighed, som forenede dem til et i Sandhed mage Par, var vokset i jævn og kraftig Stigning fra Medfølelse til Respekt, fra den til Beundring - og da var der jo ikke ret langt til Kjærligheden!The great love that united them into a truly well-fittingcouple, had grown at an even and strong rate from sympathy to respect, from that to admiration - and then there was no far distance to love!
** 2009, Peter Michael Lauritzen, Grund og bølge: en litterær, tids- og åndshistorisk studie af Erik Aalbæk Jensens forfatterskab, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN, page 469:De er vel tilsyneladende, med hele rigdommens selvsikkerhed, et mere mage par, end den umage Erling […] ville være sammen med Hedvig.They are seemingly, with all the confidence of wealth, a more similar pair, than the dissimilar Erling […] would be with Hedvig.

##### Further reading

* “mage,3” in Den Danske Ordbog
* “mage,3” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

### Etymology 2

From Middle Low German māken, from Old Saxon makōn, from Proto-West Germanic *makōn, cognate with English make, German machen, Dutch maken. Old Norse maka, Norwegian make, Swedish maka are also borrowed from Low German. The verb is derived from the adjective Proto-Germanic *makaz (“suitable”). A rather dated suffix (although common in compound words) derived from this verb, see -mager

#### Verb

mage (imperative mag, infinitive at mage, present tense mager, past tense magede, perfect tense har maget)
* (archaic) to arrange, organize

##### Conjugation

activepassive
present
mager
mages
past
magede
magedes
infinitive
mage
mages
imperative
mag
participle
present
magende
past
maget (auxiliary verb have)
gerund
magen :

#### Further reading

* “mage,3” in Den Danske Ordbog
* “mage,5” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

## Dutch Low Saxon
### Etymology

From Old Saxon mago, from Proto-West Germanic *magō, from Proto-Germanic *magô. Cognate with Dutch maag (“stomach”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mɒːɣə], IPA: [mɔːɣə] (more on the merger of monophthongal A and O)

### Noun

mage f (genitive magen, dative magen, accusative mage, plural magen)
* stomach

#### Usage notes

* The plural form stays the same in every case.

## French
### Etymology

From Latin magus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maʒ/
* Rhymes: -aʒ

### Noun

mage m (plural mages)
* specialist in occult sciences foretelling the future
    Après une violente dispute avec son mari, elle consulte un mage qui lui prédit un sombre avenir.After a bitter argument with her husband, she consults a fortune-teller, who predicts a gloomy future for her.
* (obsolete) magus: priest of the Zoroastrian religion, of the Persians and Medes
* wise man (one of the three wise men that came from the East to Bethlehem for Jesus Christ)
    l’adoration des magesthe Adoration of the Magi

#### Related terms

* magie
* roi mage

### Further reading

* “mage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* méga

## Friulian
### Noun

mage ? (plural ?)
* stomach

## Japanese
### Romanization

mage
* Rōmaji transcription of まげ

## Latin
### Noun

mage
* vocative singular of magus

### References

* “mage”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “mage”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology 1

From Old Dutch *mago, from Proto-West Germanic *magō.

#### Noun

māge f or m
* stomach

##### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

##### Descendants

* Dutch: maag
** Afrikaans: maag
** Negerhollands: maag
** → Indonesian: mag
* Limburgish: maag

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

mâge
* inflection of mâech:
** dative singular
** nominative/accusative/dative plural

### Further reading

* “maghe”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
* Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “mage (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

## Middle Low German
### Etymology

From Old Saxon mago, from Proto-West Germanic *magō. Cognate with German Magen (“stomach”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maːɣə/

### Noun

māge f (genitive magen, dative magen, accusative mage, plural magen)
* stomach

#### Usage notes

* The plural form stays the same in every case.

#### Synonyms

* lif (body, figurative for belly)
* buk (belly, abdomen)

#### Descendants

* Low German:
** German Low German: Mage, Maag
** Westphalian:
    Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Māge
    Sauerländisch: Māge
    Westmünsterländian: Maagen, Maage
* Plautdietsch: Moag

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* mave

### Etymology

From Old Norse magi, from Proto-Germanic *magô.

### Noun

mage m (definite singular magen, indefinite plural mager, definite plural magene)
* abdomen, belly, stomach

#### Synonyms

* underliv

#### Derived terms

* magedans
* magedanser, magedanserinne
* magefølelse
* magekreft
* mageplask
* magesekk
* magesår

### References

* “mage” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse magi, from Proto-Germanic *magô. The verb is derived from the noun.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²mɑːjə/, /²mɑːɡə/

### Noun

mage m (definite singular magen, indefinite plural magar, definite plural magane)
* abdomen, belly, stomach

#### Alternative forms

* maga, magje, maagaa, mågå, måvå, måvvå (dialectal)

#### Synonyms

* buk
* underliv

#### Derived terms

* bladmage
* dessertmage
* istermage
* kjertelmage
* kulemage
* løypemage
* magebelte
* magedans
* magehistorie
* magekatarr
* magekjensle
* mageknip
* magekreft
* magemunn
* magemål
* mageplask
* mageriv
* magesaft
* magesekk
* magesjau
* magesjuke
* magesmerte
* magesykje
* magesyre
* magesår
* mageverk
* magevondt
* middagsmage
* nettmage
* puntlêrsmage
* på tom mage
* sidmaga
* stormaga
* strutsemage
* sundmage
* surmaga
* treg mage
* trå mage
* ølmage

### Verb

mage (present tense magar, past tense maga, past participle maga, passive infinitive magast, present participle magande, imperative mage/mag)
* (transitive) to gut
    Synonym: sløye
* (transitive) to regurgitate (to cough up from the gut to feed its young, as an animal or bird does.)
* (intransitive or reflexive, rare) to move by crawling with one's belly to the floor or ground

#### Alternative forms

* maga (a- or split infinitive)

### References

* “mage” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* game, gema, mega-

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɑ.ɡe/, [ˈmɑ.ɣe]

### Adjective

mage
* inflection of maga:
** nominative feminine/neuter singular
** accusative neuter singular

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Swedish maghi, from Old Norse magi, from Proto-Germanic *magô, from Proto-Indo-European *mak-, *maks-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²mɑːɡɛ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

mage c
* stomach
* abdomen, belly (body part between thorax and pelvis)
    Synonyms: buk, abdomen, (colloquial) kagge
* (in idiomatic expressions) insolence, gall, cheek
    Ni hade alltså mage att komma oinbjudna?So you had the gall to come uninvited?

#### Derived terms

* ha is i magen – to be calm and cool under pressure; "to have ice in the stomach"
* ha mage – to have the insolence to do something; "to have stomach (for something)"
* hård i magen – having difficulty passing excrements, being constipated; "hard stomach"
* lös i magen – having loose bowels; "soft/loose stomach"
* komage
* kulmage
* magbesvär
* magblödning
* magborstare
* magcancer
* magdans
* magdanserska
* magdansös
* maggrop
* maggördel
* maginfluensa
* maginnehåll
* magkatarr
* magknip
* magkänsla
* magmun
* magmuskel
* magont
* magplask
* magpumpa
* magpumpning
* magsaft
* magsjuk
* magsjuka
* magskölja
* magsköljning
* magsmärtor
* magsond
* magstark
* magsur
* magsyra
* magsår
* magsäck
* magtrakten
* ölmage

### References

* mage in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* mage in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* mage in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* mega-

## West Frisian
### Etymology

From Old Frisian maga, from Proto-West Germanic *magō.

### Noun

mage c (plural magen, diminutive maachje)
* stomach

#### Further reading

* “mage”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011