bagi

bagi (plural bagis)

1. A voodoo sanctuary or sacred chamber.
   • 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, p. 89:

     The bar was deserted, but when Max Beauvoir and I entered the hounfour there were three of them, sitting with their backs to the ochre walls of the bagi.

   • 2013, Patrick Taylor, Frederick I. Case (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions: Volume 1, p. 1065:

     The various fronds are fixed in front of the doors of the bagi and the peristyle as well as to the potomitan […].

   • 2015, Manbo Paula Wedo, Manbo Jumbo, p. 370:

     “This is a very important time for Vodou” Papa Baz tells me as he works in the bagi.

• Baig, Biga, biga, gabi

• Hyphenation: ba‧gi

bagi

1. a unicornfish; any member of the genus Naso

From the verb baga (“to inconvenience”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaːjɪ/
• Rhymes: -aːjɪ
• IPA^(key): /ˈpaiːjɪ/[1]
• Rhymes: -aiːjɪ

bagi m (genitive singular baga, nominative plural bagar)

1. inconvenience, disadvantage

   þrengslin í húsinu eru mjög til baga ― the lack of space in the house is a serious inconvenience.

• vesen

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baqagi (“share; portion”). Cognate with Tagalog bahagi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.ɡi/, [ˈba.ɡɛ]
• Hyphenation: ba‧gi

bági (plural bagbagi)

1. part
2. share; portion; lot
3. offspring; child
4. Used to form possessive pronouns

• IPA^(key): /baˈɡi/, [bɐˈɡi]

bagí (plural bagbagi)

1. body
2. structure; form
3. relative (person connected with another by blood or affinity)
4. self
5. Used to form reflexive pronouns

• bahagi: nonstandard Indonesian, standard Malay

From Malay bagi (standard bahagi), from Classical Malay بهاڬي‎ (bahagi), باݢي‎ (bagi), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baqagi (“share, portion, inheritance; to allot, divide property”).

• The meaning of (to) share is a semantic loan from Chinese 分 (“to give (share)”, literally “to divide”).

• IPA^(key): /ba.ɡi/
• Hyphenation: ba‧gi

bagi

1. for

bagi

1. to divide
2. to share

bagi

1. part, share.

• “bagi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Clipping of bahagi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *baqagi (“share, portion, inheritance; to allot, divide property”).

• IPA^(key): /baɡi/
• Rhymes: -aɡi, -ɡi, -i

bagi

1. to divide
2. to give

   Synonym: beri

bagi

1. for; for the purpose of

   Synonyms: untuk, agar

• “bagi” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Austronesian Comparative Dictionary - *baqagi

bagì

1. fate

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *huaji, from Proto-Austronesian *Suaji.

bagi

1. sibling ((younger) person who shares same parents)

bagi (mutated form mbagi)

1. neck

• Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 24.

From bazàgi.

• IPA^(key): /bā.ɡī/

bagi (plural bagizhì)

1. man

• yinzàgi

• IPA^(key): [bad͡ʒʲ]

bagi

1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of băga