sagan

See also: Sagan, sag an, and saĝan

English

Noun

sagan (plural sagans)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Sagan
   • 1984 September 27, Jerry Boyajian, “re: Moriarty's long-awaited reviews”, in net.comics‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Part of it was that I just couldn't deal with a piece of primal matter floating around for sagans of years, eroding away until it became a nice, shiny, sharp-as-William-F.-Buckley's-tongue sword, with the old familiar "S" symbol coincidentally engraved on its hilt.

   • 1989, Edward S. Hudson, Alien Death Fleet, Pageant Books, published 1989, →ISBN, page 5:

     "There must be a sagan of them up there."

   • 1998 January, Jon Luini, Allen Whitman, “Finding Your Geek”, in EQ, page 132:

     There are sagans of other planets crying out for this knowledge.

   • 2001 October 24, Joe \"Nuke Me Xemu\" Foster, “Re: Randomly write data to a file”, in comp.lang.basic.visual.misc‎^[2] (Usenet):

     The Jet and xBase database engines have been pounded on by who knows how many developers and end-users for years, which amounts to sagans and sagans of hours of real-world testing!

Anagrams

• Agans, Angas, Nāgas, Sanga, gansa, nagas, nāgas, sanga

Icelandic

Noun

sagan f

1. definite nominative singular of saga

Old Norse

Noun

sagan

1. nominative singular definite of saga

Polish

sagan

Etymology

Perhaps from Russian сагáн (sagán) or Ukrainian сагáн (sahán), from Turkish sagan, from Arabic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ɡan/

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• Rhymes: -aɡan
• Syllabification: sa‧gan
• Homophone: Sagan

Noun

sagan m inan

1. (dated) large copper or iron vessel used to boil water or food
2. (colloquial, humorous) head
3. (Kraków) kettle

Declension

Declension of sagan

	singular	plural
nominative	sagan	sagany
genitive	sagana	saganów
dative	saganowi	saganom
accusative	sagan	sagany
instrumental	saganem	saganami
locative	saganie	saganach
vocative	saganie	sagany

Further reading

• sagan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• sagan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Noun

sagan

1. definite singular of saga

Anagrams

• agans