nounA member of a class of semi-divine creatures, often taking the form of a very large snake and associated with water. · A fictional creature with the lower body of a snake, and an upper body either of an anthropomorphic version thereof, or of a human or another humanoid creature. The serpentine equivalent of a taur.
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryBorrowed from Sanskrit नाग (nāga, “serpent, snake”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nogʷós (“naked”) and cognate with naked.
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- Root classification mention*negʷ-ine-pro
- Borrowed-form mentionनागsa
- Derivation mention*nogʷósine-pro · naked
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