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Definition: Bag |
BagNoun1. A flexible container with a single opening; "he stuffed his laundry into a large bag". 2. The quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person); "his bag included two deer". 3. Place that runner must touch before scoring; "he scrambled to get back to the bag". 4. A bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women); "she reached into her bag and found a comb". 5. The quantity that a bag will hold; "he ate a large bag of popcorn". 6. A portable rectangular traveling bag for carrying clothes; "he carried his small bag onto the plane with him". 7. An ugly or ill-tempered woman; "he was romancing the old bag for her money". 8. Mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats). 9. An activity that you like or at which you are superior; "chemistry is not my cup of tea"; "his bag now is learning to play golf"; "marriage was scarcely his dish". Verb1. Capture or kill, as in hunting; "bag a few pheasants". 2. Hang loosely, like an empty bag. 3. Bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge. 4. Take unlawfully. 5. Put into a bag; "The supermarket clerk bagged the groceries". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bag" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Bag \Bag\, noun. [Old English bagge; compare to Icelandic baggi, and also Old French bague, bundle, Late Latin baga.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Bag (1.) A pocket of a cone-like shape in which Naaman bound two pieces of silver for Gehazi (2 Kings 5:23). The same Hebrew word occurs elsewhere only in Isa. 3:22, where it is rendered "crisping-pins," but denotes the reticules (or as R.V., "satchels") carried by Hebrew women. (2.) Another word (kees) so rendered means a bag for carrying weights (Deut. 25:13; Prov. 16:11; Micah 6:11). It also denotes a purse (Prov. 1:14) and a cup (23:31). (3.) Another word rendered "bag" in 1 Sam. 17:40 is rendered "sack" in Gen. 42:25; and in 1 Sam. 9:7; 21:5 "vessel," or wallet for carrying food. (4.) The word rendered in the Authorized Version "bags," in which the priests bound up the money contributed for the restoration of the temple (2 Kings 12:10), is also rendered "bundle" (Gen. 42:35; 1 Sam. 25:29). It denotes bags used by travellers for carrying money during a journey (Prov. 7:20; Hag. 1:6). (5.) The "bag" of Judas was a small box (John 12:6; 13:29). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Food & Agriculture | Means 60 kilograms or 132, 276 pounds of green coffee; "tonne" means a metric ton of 1 000 kilograms or 2 204, 6 pounds; and "pound" means 453, 597 grams. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Section of stronger netting often loosely hung to form a bag or pocket, where the catch is aggregated when the net is hauled. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Bag Bag and Baggage, as "Get away with you, bag and baggage," i.e. get away, and carry with you all your belongings. The bag or sack is the pouch in which a soldier packs his few articles when he moves from place to place. Baggage is a contemptuous term for a woman, either because soldiers send their wives in the baggage wagons, or from the Italian bagascia (a harlot), French bagasse, Spanish bagazo, Persian, baga. Bag and baggage policy. In 1876 Mr. Gladstone, speaking on the Eastern question, said, "Let the Turks now carry away their abuses in the only possible manner, namely, by carrying away themselves. ... One and all, bag and baggage, shall, I hope, clear out from the province they have desolated and profaned." This was termed by the Conservatives the bag and baggage policy. A bag of bones. Very emaciated; generally "A mere bag of bones." A bag of game. A large battue. From the custom of carrying game home in "bags." A bag of tricks or A whole bag of tricks. Numerous expedients. In allusion to the fable of the Fox and the Cat. The fox was commiserating the cat because she had only one shift in the case of danger, while he had a thousand tricks to evade it. Being set upon by a pack of hounds, the fox was soon caught, while puss ran up a tree and was quite secure. A good bag. A large catch of game, fish, or other animals sought after by sportsmen. Got the bag. Got his dismissal. (See Sack.) The bottom of the bag. The last expedient, having emptied every other one out of his bag. To empty the bag. To tell the whole matter and conceal nothing. (French, vider le sac, to expose all to view.) To let the cat out of the bag. (See under Cat.) Bag (To) To steal, or slip into one's bag, as a poacher or pilferer who slyly slips into his bag what he has contrived to purloin. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Math | An unordered collection of values that may have duplicates. (references) |
Mining | A. A paper container roughly 2.5 to 5 cm in diameter and 20 to 46 cm long, used for placing an inert material, such as sand, clay, etc., into a borehole for stemming or tamping. Also called a tamping bag. b. A long tube fastened at the upper end to a pipe leading from a smelter, and gathered and tied at the lower end. The smoke passes through the cloth, which catches the solids. The bag is periodically untied and the dust is shaken out. See also:baghouse c. A cavity in coal containing gas or water. See also:bag of ga d. Flexible pipe or hose. Also called bagging e. S. Staff. A quantity of combustible gases suddenly given off by the coal seam. See also:bag of foulnessf. York. A miner's term for a variety of inferior coal. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | BAG. He gave them the bag, i.e. left them. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A bag is a container that is usually used for storing or holding something. Other pages related to the word bag are listed below.
- Airbag, used for used for cushioning from collision in cars
- CBS Mail Bag, joke from the The Late Show with David Letterman
- Bag knot
- Bag End, the home of Bilbo Baggins
- Footbag, a small bean bag used as a ball in sport
- I packed my bag, a car game
- Bagpipes, a class of musical instrument
- Sleeping bag, a protective "bag" for sleeping, analogous to a bed
- Tea bag, a small bag that holds tea leaves
- Papa's Got A Brand New Bag, a song by James Brown
- Trick Bag, a song by Earl King
- 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag, a song by Dyan Cannon
- The cat's out of the bag, see List of clichés
- Bag One Portfolio, art by John Lennon. See 1970 in music
- The Adventures Of A Black Bag, a book by A.J. Cronin
- To bag, meaning to criticise in Australian English
- Shopping Bag is an album from the The Partridge Family
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bag."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BAG | English | Brussels Aeronautics Group | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: BagSynonyms: bagful (n), base (n), cup of tea (n), dish (n), grip (n), handbag (n), old bag (n), pocketbook (n), purse (n), suitcase (n), traveling bag (n), udder (n), bulge (v), pocket (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: pouching (engineering & technology). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Acquisition | Find; come upon, pitch upon, light upon; scrape up, scrape together; get in, reap and carry, net, bag, sack, bring home, secure; derive, draw, get in the harvest. |
Disclosure | Divulge, reveal, break; squeal, tattle, sing, rat, snitch; let into the secret; reveal the secrets of the prison house; tell; (inform); breathe, utter, blab, peach; let out, let fall, let drop, let slip, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag; betray; tell tales, come out of school; come out with; give vent, give utterance to; open the lips, blurt out, vent, whisper about; speak out; (make manifest); make public; unriddle; (find out) a; split. |
Location | Billet on, quarter upon, saddle with; load, lade, freight; pocket, put up, bag. |
Messenger | Mail, overnight mail, express mail, next-day delivery; post, post office; letter bag; delivery service; United Parcel Service, UPS; Federal Express, Fedex. |
Property | Impedimenta; luggage, baggage; bag and baggage; pelf; cargo, lading. |
Receptacle | Pocket, pouch, fob, sheath, scabbard, socket, bag, sac, sack, saccule, wallet, cardcase, scrip, poke, knit, knapsack, haversack, sachel, satchel, reticule, budget, net; ditty bag, ditty box; housewife, hussif; saddlebags; portfolio; quiver; (magazine). |
Stealing | Verb: steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim, crib, cabbage, palm; abstract; appropriate, plagiarize. |
Taking | Verb: take, catch, hook, nab, bag, sack, pocket, put into one's pocket; receive; accept. |
Treasury | Noun: treasury, bank, exchequer, fisc, hanaper; cash register, kutcherry, bursary; strong box, strong hold, strong room; coffer; chest;(receptacle); safe; bank vault; depository; till, tiller; purse; money bag, money box; porte-monnaie. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Come on, take a bag. I took a bag home last night, and it cost me a lot more than ten quid (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) Bag it. (Die Hard; writing credit: Jeb Stuart) Papa's got a brand new bag. (Trainspotting; writing credit: John Hodge. Based on the novel by Irvine Welsh.) You aren't all that and a bag of potato chips (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me; writing credit: Mike Myers) You Hefty bag of trash (Grosse Pointe; writing credit: Amy Engelberg; Wendy Engelberg) | |
Lyrics | Bag lady you gone miss your bus (Bag Lady; performing artist: Erykah Badu) She's packed a bag she slips the keys out of his pocket (Birmingham; performing artist: Amanda Marshall) He pulled a pistol from his bag (One Voice; performing artist: Billy Gilman) No diggity, I try to bag it up, bag it up (No Diggity; performing artist: Blackstreet) Keep a big bank roll and a bag of weed (That's What I'm Looking For; performing artist: Da Brat) | |
Clever | On a bag of Fritos: "You could be a winner! No purchase necessary. Details inside. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | It's in the Bag (1973) Sex in the Bag (1973) Comedy Bag (1972) Doggie Bag (1969) The Little Black Bag (1969) | |
Song Titles | Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (performing artist: James Brown) Sleeping Bag (performing artist: ZZ Top) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |||
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Theater & Movies | |||
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Consumer Goods |
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An overflowing grocery bag spills out. Broccoli, pears, red kidney beans, peppers and tomatoes are on a wooden table in a tight shot. See artwork: PV-44. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). | A grocery bag spills out junk food (Cheetos, fried pork skins, cookies, cheddar and bacon crackers). There are bananas and oranges hidden in the background. See artwork: PV-44. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). | ||
Bleach solution is sprayed on body bag prior to burial to prevent the spread of infection. Kikwit, Zaire. Credit: CDC. | ![]() | Water sample bag for radio-isotope studies OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | |
![]() | Double-rigged shrimp trawler dumping the catch from the bag of one net on deck. Credit: Fisheries. | ![]() | A combination turtle excluder device/bycatch reduction device manufactured by Saunders Marine Machine Shop. Fish escape by swimming forward and out of the large holes in the net. Shrimp are swept into the bag at the end of the net and cannot swim out. Credit: Fisheries. |
![]() | The bag from the net is emptied into the tote. The fish are juvenile rockfish. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | Geotubes being filled at Barren Island. A crane holds the boom that is filling the bag. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | Old man named Marcus with betlenut bag escorting American scientist team between villages. Credit: Small World. | ![]() | Close-up of open bag of peanuts. Credit: USDA. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Bag 3" by A D C Commentary: "My brother whith a brown bag." | "Gift bag" by Wendy Cain Commentary: "Just a random pic." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
| Boxer punching a punching bag. | Sound of impact when a man punches a punching bag. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. |
Thomas Carlyle | Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence. |
William Shakespeare | Let us make an honorable retreat; though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | She laid aside the bag, and resumed her cup of tea. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | To throw away his bag of tools, or his basket, or his hod, is the first thing that every sewerman does when he feels the soil giving way beneath him. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He pulled a little bag from under the counter, whipped it open and scooped some sugar into it, weighed the bag, and added a little more sugar |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | And to feed them on board, I had a good bundle of hay, and a bag of corn |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Place the tick in a plastic bag and put it in your freezer. (references) | |
Stool goes into a bag attached to the skin around the stoma. (references) | ||
The stool goes into a bag attached to the opening in the abdomen. (references) | ||
Business | Clover Golf Bags is the Argentine golf bag manufacturer. (references) | |
Only one urine bag and accessories are reimbursed during a treatment period. (references) | ||
Local production of golf clubs and balls is non-existent and domestic golf bag production is negligible. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Israel and the occupied territories | The IDF soldiers stated that they viewed the bag as a suspicious object. (references) |
Hungary | In April police raided a funeral wake in Bag, a predominately Roma village in Pest county. (references) | |
Argentina | The victim reported that the attackers put a plastic bag over her head, beat her and burned her arms and back with cigarettes. (references) | |
Minorities | Bangladesh | The bomb, which the army concluded was produced outside of the country, had been placed just inside a side door in a jute bag. (references) |
Travel | Mexico | Calculate 10 percent of restaurant bills and one U.S. dollar per bag to bellmen. (references) |
Nigeria | Important documents or correspondence should be sent via reputable courier, such as DHL or UPS, and show a Private Mail Bag (PMB) or Post Office Box (P.O. Box) as well as street address. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | There's nothing I love better than going through a drive-thru window on a cold day, getting that perfectly balanced bag, setting it between my legs and driving away while that mothering heat radiates through my lower extremities. |
James Dobson | You're right. That's what I meant when I said I'm worried about it because once you let that cat out of the bag you can't get it back in and who knows where that's going. But I think we ought to curtail it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Bag" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.41% of the time. "Bag" is used about 4,904 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.41% | 4,826 | 2,026 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.71% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.49% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.29% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (common) | 0.1% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4,904 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "bag". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Shashak | N/A | Biblical | The sixth bag |
| Shashak | N/A | Biblical | A bag of linen |
| Sheshach | N/A | Biblical | Bag of flax or linen |
| Shishak | N/A | Biblical | Present of the bag |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "bag": air bag ♦ air bag restraint system ♦ air safety bag ♦ airtight bag ♦ alligator bag ♦ automatic bag ♦ back bag ♦ bag and baggage ♦ Bag lady ♦ bag net ♦ bag of bones ♦ bag of chips ♦ bag of sweets ♦ bag of tricks ♦ bag on the side ♦ bag shaped net ♦ bag snatcher ♦ barracks bag ♦ be a bag of bones ♦ be in the bag ♦ be left holding the bag ♦ beach bag ♦ bean bag ♦ belt bag ♦ big bag ♦ big bag of pages ♦ body bag ♦ book bag ♦ brief bag ♦ brown paper bag bug ♦ burlap bag ♦ burn bag ♦ camera bag ♦ carpet bag ♦ carrier bag ♦ cartridge bag ♦ changing bag ♦ Cloak bag ♦ clutch bag ♦ cool bag ♦ cooll bag ♦ delve into one's bag ♦ diplomatic bag ♦ disposable plastic bag ♦ ditty bag ♦ doggie bag ♦ doggy bag ♦ dorothy bag ♦ douche bag ♦ Douglas bag ♦ drawstring bag ♦ Duffel bag ♦ duffle bag ♦ dust bag ♦ evening bag ♦ Feed bag ♦ forcing bag ♦ Game bag ♦ garbage bag ♦ garment bag ♦ give smb. the bag ♦ Gladstone bag ♦ glandstone bag ♦ golf bag ♦ Grab bag ♦ grocery bag ♦ Gunny bag ♦ Hand bag ♦ handwoven bag ♦ ice bag ♦ in the bag ♦ ink bag ♦ it's a mixed bag ♦ it's in the bag ♦ Jelly bag ♦ kit bag ♦ kitchen bag ♦ large shopping bag ♦ laundry bag ♦ lavender bag ♦ leather bag ♦ let the cat out of the bag ♦ letter bag ♦ like a bag of bones ♦ litter bag ♦ mail bag ♦ medical bag ♦ medicine bag ♦ mixed bag ♦ money bag ♦ net bag ♦ oil bag ♦ old bag ♦ open your bag please! ♦ overnight bag ♦ pack up bag and baggage ♦ pannier bag ♦ paper bag ♦ piping bag ♦ plastic bag ♦ poison bag. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bag": bag-and-baggage, Bag-barrow, bag-carrier, bag-carrying, bag-dragging, bag-face, bag-filler, bag-full, bag-hosiers, bag-laden, bag-ladies, bag-like, bag-man, bag-play, bag-shaped, bag-sleeve, bag-snatch, bag-snatchers, bag-snatches, bag-snatching, bag-switch, bag-throwing, bag-wall. | |
Ending with "bag": barrel-bag, bean-bag, body-bag, carpet-bag, carrier-bag, fist-in-a-bag, golf-bag, grow-bag, hand-bag, kit-bag, money-bag, rag-bag, saddle-bag, sag-bag, shopping-bag, shoulder-bag, sleeping-bag, sponge-bag, tea-bag, toilet-bag. | |
Containing "bag": brown-paper-bag bug, finish-'im-off-rip-'is-guts-out-fump-'im-in-the-belly-ya-big-ugly-bag-of-chisels-yer-tattoo'd-dick'ead, kit-bag inspection, paper-bag cookery. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
golf bag | 4,293 | punching bag | 612 |
sleeping bag | 3,347 | gift bag | 593 |
bed in a bag | 2,901 | louis vuitton bag | 570 |
travel bag | 2,596 | book bag | 482 |
bag | 2,425 | fendi bag | 444 |
shopping bag | 2,128 | burberry bag | 437 |
diaper bag | 1,509 | cosmetic bag | 423 |
beach bag | 1,440 | paper bag | 409 |
bean bag chair | 1,401 | air bag suspension | 403 |
camera bag | 1,337 | laptop bag | 397 |
bean bag | 1,272 | saddle bag | 386 |
air bag | 1,056 | doggie bag | 359 |
messenger bag | 1,026 | designer bag | 355 |
coach bag | 939 | garment bag | 353 |
bike bag | 862 | poly bag | 352 |
gucci bag | 855 | computer bag | 328 |
tote bag | 770 | golf travel bag | 320 |
plastic bag | 766 | bean bag game | 308 |
prada bag | 735 | leather bag | 285 |
space bag | 617 | duffle bag | 273 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "bag"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | tas (sack). (various references) | |
Albanian | vras (assassinate, bruise, bump off, damage, despatch, dispatch, do away with, drop, finish, finish off, get, hurt, injure, kill, Lynch, make away with oneself, murder, poniard, put the sword, puzzle, shoot, slay, stab, stone to death, waste, zap), trastë, torbë (hiking-sack, saddlebag), thes (poke, receptacle, sack, sacking), rri si thes, qese (pouch, purse, sachet, wallet), përlaj (carry away, collar, devour, filch, mulct, pick, plunder, poach, pocket, purloin, put away, strip, wangle), fus në thes (sack), çante (sack), çantë (brief bag, briefcase, carrier bag, case, kit bag, portfolio, satchel, string bag). (various references) | |
Arabic | كيس (budget, capsule, courteous, cyst, elegant, encyst, graceful, pocket, polite, pouch, sac, sack), قتل (assassinate, assassination, butcher, croak, death, despatch, dispatch, do in, end, finish, fire, homicide, immolate, kill, killing, knock off, lay out, manslaughter, murder, poleaxe, procure, put down, put to death, shoot, slay, take for a ride), وضع فى كيس, حقيبة (briefcase, carrier bag, case, handbag, mail, valise), حافظة نقود, تدلى (dangle, droop, fall, flag, flow, loll, lop, sag, suspend, swing), ضرع البقرة, صاد (hook, land, repellent), جيب فى جسم الحيوان, إنتفخ (balloon, belly, billow, bloat, bulge, distend, fill, fluff, heave, inflate, puff, strut, swell), ثوب فضفاض, شىء كالكيس, شنطة, بنطلون (breech, pants, peg-pant, slacks, trousers). (various references) | |
Basque | moltsa. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | слагам в торба убит дивеч, чувал (cul de sac, pocket, poke, sack), чанта (case, holdall, receptacle, satchel), торбест (saccate, sacciform), торба (bagful, grab-all, pack, pouch, receptacle, sack, swag, wallet), виме (dug, udder), отклонявам се от курса (pay off, sag, sheer, yaw), запазвам правото си на, задигам (carry away, filch, finger, grab, lift, mooch, nip, pinch, prig, run away with, scarp, scrounge, snaffle, sneak, swipe, walk off with), жъна (cut, harvest, mow, reap), пъхвам в торба, издувам се като чувал. (various references) | |
Chinese | 袋子 . (various references) | |
Czech | taška (carrier bag, valise). (various references) | |
Danish | taske (sack). (various references) | |
Dutch | zak (bastard, box, container, jug, pocket, sack, son-of-a-bitch, vessel), tas (accumulation, crowd, hand-bag, heap, mass, multitude, pile, sack). (various references) | |
Esperanto | sendaĵero (bale, barrel, package), sako (sack). (various references) | |
Faeroese | taska (sack), skjátta (briefcase, file, sack), sekkur (sack), pungur (purse, sack, wallet). (various references) | |
Farsi | متورم شدن (Bulge, Distend, Inflate), چنته (Cod, Knapsack, Pouch), کیف (Jollity, Kef, Pleasure, Revel, Valise), کیسه (Bung, Capsule, Cod, Cyst, Pouch, Purse, Sack, Sinus), ساک , خورجین (Cantina, Kyack, Valise), جوال (Sack), ربودن (Abduct, Abstract, Betake, Get, Grab, Hook, Purloin, Ravish, Reave, Rob, Snatch, Steal, Usurp), بادکردن (Bloat, Brag, Bulge, Distend, Heave, Inflate, Perk, Swell). (various references) | |
Finnish | säkki (sack). (various references) | |
French | sac. (various references) | |
Frisian | sek (sack). (various references) | |
German | Sack (bastard, bursa, pocket, poke, pouch, sac, sack, sackful, sod), Beutel (packet, poke, pouch, purse, sac, sachet, sack, sacs, wallet), Tasche (case, catchall, handbag, pocket, pouch, purse), Tüte (breathalyzer, cone, cornet, horn, packet, paper bag, paperbag, paper-bag, pint, poke), koffer (bags, case, chest, suitcase, trunk, trunks). (various references) | |
Greek | σάκκοσ (poke, sack), σάκοσ (kitbag, poke, sack), σακκούλα (purse), σακούλα (pouch), σακουλιάζω (pouch, sack), τσάντα (handbag), ταγάρι (animal's foodbag, handwoven bag, peasant's knapsack), θέτω εντόσ σακούλασ. (various references) | |
Guarani | bosa. (various references) | |
Hawaiian | çante (sack). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מזודה (portmanteau, suitcase, trunk, valise), ילקוט (anthology, compilation, knack, magazine, pouch, rucksack, satchel, school bag), תיק (box, case, dossier, file, folder, portfolio, satchel), תרמיל (case, haversack, satchel, shell), שקית (small bag), שק (sack), ארנק (pocket book, purse, wallet), צקלון (kitbag, sack). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zsák (cod, poke, sac, sack), zacskó (cod, pouch, purse, sac), táska (case, satchel), szatyor (pouch). (various references) | |
Icelandic | taska (sack), poki (sack). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tas, saku (pocket, sack), merogoh (grope after something, search (in pocket), karung (bale, sack), kantong (poke, pouch). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | puuq. (various references) | |
Irish | bolg (abdomen, belly, sack, tummy), mhála, mÚla (sack). (various references) | |
Italian | sacchetto (sac, saccule, sachet, sacs, sickbag), borsa (bourse, exchange, fellowship, grant, grip, handbag, pannier, pouch, purse, sack, saddlebag, stock market), sacco (a great deal, a lot, budget, punching bag, sac, sack, sackful, sackfuls). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 袋 (sack). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | バッグ (bug), ランドセル (knapsack, satchel with back straps), ふくろ (return path, return trip, sack), かばん (basket, briefcase, going off duty, satchel). (various references) | |
Korean | 부대 (Accompanying, troop, troops). (various references) | |
Malay | tas (sack), sak (sack), karung (sack). (various references) | |
Manx | poagey (bursa, kit, pocket, poke, pouch, sac, windbag), cur ayns seck, cur ayns poagaghyn (bagging), bolgaghey (puff out). (various references) | |
Maori | peeke (bank). (various references) | |
Norwegian | veske (sack), sekk (sack). (various references) | |
Occitan | saca. (various references) | |
Papiamen | tas (sack). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | agbay.(various references) | |
Polish | worek (sack), torba (sack). (various references) | |
Portuguese | saco (billfold, budget, notecase, sac, sack, vesicle, wallet). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | mala. (various references) | |
Romanian | bogãţie (abundance, ampleness, amplitude, copiousness, fortune, luxury, money bag, opulence, plenty, profusion, prosperity, riches, richness, valuables, wealth), pungi (purse), şterpeli (annex, filch, knock off, nibble, nobble, pilfer, pinch, scrounge, steal, whisk), cãptuşi (back, board, coat, diddle, shark, sheathe, wainscot), capsulã (capsule, priming, seal), colecta (collect, gather, pick up), geantã (handbag, purse), ghiozdan (satchel), husã (antimacassar, casing, dust cloth, dust-wrap, sheath, tidy), lãbãrţa, mâna (drive, horse, prod, punch, spank), nãdragi (pants), împuşca (execute, fire, gun, pip, pistol, pop, pot, rifle, shoot), pune în sac (sack), valizã (carpet bag, gripsack, portmanteau, suit case, valise), sac (bagful, kit, knapsack, pocket, pod, poke, sac, sack, sackful), sacoşã (handbag, satchel), se pungi, se umfla (balloon, belly out, billow, bloat out, bulge, bulk, distend, fill out, flow, ridge, swell), servietã (brief case, briefcase, foliocase, portfolio), tãgârţã (satchel), taşcã, tolbã (satchel), tolbã de vânãtoare, traistã (knapsack, pouch, wallet), uger (dug, teat, udder), umfla (belly, blow, bunt, expand, fill, fill out, grow, heighten, inflate, overdraw, pad, puff, swell), poşetã (handbag, vanity bag). (various references) | |
Russian | сумка (bursa, follicle, handbag, pouch, satchel, shopping bag), чемодан (portmanteaux, suitcase, trunk, valise), картуз, класть в мешок (sack), мешочный, мешок;мультимножество, мешок (bagful, cul de sac, drawstring, duffel bag, duffle bag, pocket, poke, sac, sack). (various references) | |
Scottish | poca (a bag, sack), màileid (a bag, budget, sack, wallet). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vreća (sack), ubiti (assassinate, bump off, cut down, do away, do away with, kill, make away, murder, put away, slay, wipe out, zap), torbica (cartridge pouch, reticule, scrip), torbast (pouched, pouchy), torba (poke, pouch, sack, satchel), staviti u vreću, napuniti (charge, fill, lade, replenish, stuff, tank up, top up), kožna torba, kesast (baggy, saccate, sacciform), kesa (pouch, sac), džak (sack). (various references) | |
Spanish | bolso (handbag, pocketbook, purse, sack), saco (carrier bag, coat, jacket, sac, sack, sackful, sackfuls). (various references) | |
Sranan | saka (descend, get off, go down, sack). (various references) | |
Swahili | mfuko (sack), gunia (sack). (various references) | |
Swedish | väska (kit-bag, sack), säck (sac, sack), påse (bagful, pouch, sack), kappsäck (hold all, hold-all, imperial, portmanteau, suit case, suit-case, trunk), bag. (various references) | |
Tagalog | bag (hand-bag, sack). (various references) | |
Thai | ใส่ถุง, บวม (swollen), ฐาน (bottom), กระเป๋าถือ, ฆ่า (kill, kill off), ย่าม (satchel), ห้อย (loppy, sag), หญิงไร้เสน่ห์, ความมั่งคั่ง (opulence, richness). (various references) | |
Turkish | torba (carrierbag, cyst, envelope, plastic bag, pochette, pocket, poke, pouch, sack, vesica), çanta (briefcase, carrierbag, case, handbag, purse, sack). (various references) | |
Turkmen | bukja (envelope), torba. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | мішок (cod, purse, sack), портфель (attache case, portfolio), багатство (affluence, capital, fortune, mammon, means, moneybag, oof, opulence, pocket, profusion, purse, riches, richness, the dollars, thrift, wad, weal, wealth), безліч (a lot of, abundance, army, array, bagful, barrel, bushel, cumulus, dozens, host, infinite, lashings, legion, lots of, multitude, number, numbers, ocean, oodles, orb, orgy, pack, plenty, reams, rout, ruck, scores, shoal, shower, ton, variety, vast, wealth, wilderness, world), брати без дозволу, брати в полон (captivate, capture), лантух (cod, sack), жати серпом, здобич (booty, capture, catch, kill, loot, plunder, prey, quarry, ravin, swag), збивати (churn, knock off, shake up, whisk), збирати (agglomerate, amass, assemble, canvass, carry, collect, compile, congregate, convene, convoke, cull, gather, gather in, levy, make up, muster, pick, pick in, summon, win), дипломатична пошта, звільняти (absolve, acquit, affranchise, avoid, cashier, clear, defecate, disband, disencumber, disengage, dismiss, ease, eject, emancipate, enfranchise, exempt, exonerate, free, let out, loose, manumit, purify, release, remit, rescue, rid, set free, supersede, unfetter, unshackle, untie, vacate), сумка (case, pouch, sac, wallet), наповнювати повітрям, випинатися (bulge, goggle, jut, knob, overhang, peak, project, stick up), вим'я (dug, udder), класти в мішок, котел (cauldron, kettle), трофеї (booty, spoil), чемодан (case, portmanteau), ранець (backpack, kitbag, knapsack, satchel, valise), рюкзак (carryall, knapsack, rucksack), ягдташ (game bag), схопити (capture, grip, gripe, nip, nobble, reach at, take hold, whip away, yank), захоплювати (absorb, carry away, clench, clip, delight, encroach, enrapture, enthuse, grab, inlace, invade, occupy, possess, rapture, ravish, take). (various references) | |
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