bisaga

Polish

Alternative forms
  • biesaga

Etymology

From Latin bisaccium.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /biˈsa.ɡa/
  • Rhymes: -aɡa
  • Syllabification: bi‧sa‧ga

Noun

bisaga m pers (Cieszyn Silesia)

  1. two bags bound together before the chest or behind the back
  2. layabout, lazybones, do-nothing

Descendants
  • → Russian: бися́га (bisjága, “bag; saddle blanket”), пися́га (pisjága, “a blanket of deer pelt”) (dialectal)
  • → Ukrainian: би́са́ги (býsáhy), бе́са́ги (bésáhy, “saddle-bags”)

Further reading

Slovene

Etymology

From Dalmatian bisuog, from Latin bisaccium.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /bisàːɡa/, /bisáːɡa/

Noun

bisāga f

  1. (archaic) sack

Inflection
Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing. bisága
gen. sing. biságe
singular dual plural
nominative bisága bisági biságe
accusative biságo bisági biságe
genitive biságe biság biság
dative bisági biságama biságam
locative bisági biságah biságah
instrumental biságo biságama biságami

Further reading
  • “bisaga”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.