Maga

See also: Appendix:Variations of "maga"

English

Etymology 1

Phrase

Maga

1. (chiefly British spelling) Alternative letter-case form of MAGA (“Make America Great Again”)
   • 2025 January 26, Owen Myers, “From gay clubs to Maga anthem: the absurd, contested history of the Village People’s YMCA”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     The millions that Willis says he stands to make from a Maga-endorsed YMCA presumably makes it easier for him and his associates to put on all the bells and whistles (well, fringe and leather) for an administration set on a scorched-earth approach to LGBTQ+ protections.

Etymology 2

From Hebrew מַגָּע (maga, “contact”).

Noun

Maga (uncountable)

1. (nonstandard) Ellipsis of Krav Maga (“contact combat”).

Etymology 3

Clipping of magazine.

Proper noun

Maga

1. (historical, UK, publishing) Abbreviation of Blackwood's Magazine. (1817–1980)
   • 1862 November 29, All the Year Round, volume VIII, page 275:

     In 1817 he connected himself definitively with Blackwood's Magazine, or "Maga."

Anagrams

• Gama, agma

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaɡa]

Proper noun

Maga m pers (female equivalent Magová)

1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Maga (pattern hrdina)

	singular	plural 1	plural 2
nominative	Maga	Magovia	Magovci
genitive	Magu	Magov	Magovcov
dative	Magovi	Magom	Magovcom
accusative	Magu	Magov	Magovcov
locative	Magovi	Magoch	Magovcoch
instrumental	Magom	Magami	Magovcami

Further reading

• “Maga”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025