luggage

English

Etymology

1590s, lug (“to drag”) +‎ -age, literally “that which is lugged, dragged around”. Duplicate -g- is to clarify pronunciation of the vowel ‘u’ (which is pronounced unchanged from lug). Compare baggage.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: lŭg'ĭj, IPA^(key): /ˈlʌɡɪd͡ʒ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌɡɪdʒ
• Hyphenation: lug‧gage

Noun

luggage (usually uncountable, plural luggages)

A man carrying his luggage (1).

1. (uncountable) The bags and other containers that hold a traveller's belongings.
   • August 4, 1726, Jonathan Swift, letter to Alexander Pope

     I am gathering up my luggage, and preparing for my journey.

2. (uncountable) The contents of such containers.
3. (countable, nonstandard or obsolete) A specific bag or container holding a traveller's belongings.
   • 1858, “Letter from Rev. George L. Seymour”, in The African Repository and Colonial Journal, volume 34, page 13:

     I assisted some time ago in cutting up a tree, that made tolerably good turns or luggage for nineteen or twenty persons, which could be procured for about two dollars at the stump.

   • 1875, W. G. Willson, Report of the Midnapore and Burdwan Cyclone of the 15th and 16th of October 1874‎^[1]:

     The passengers injured who could not get out were removed out by the railway staff, and then taking part of the luggage the train started back for Burdwan.

   • 1964 [1957], Colin MacInnes, City of Spades, London: Penguin Books, page 15:

     Namely, leaving my luggages at the Government hostel, to go straight out by taxi (oh, so slow, compared with our sleek Lagos limousines!) to the famous central Piccadilly Tube station where I took a onestop ticket, went down on the escalator, and then ran up the same steps in the wrong direction.

Synonyms

• baggage

Derived terms

• cabin luggage
• carry-on luggage
• checked luggage
• hand luggage
• hold luggage
• left luggage
• left-luggage office
• luggage car
• luggage cart
• luggage hold
• luggage rack
• luggage van

 

Translations

traveller's containers

• Afrikaans: bagasie
• Albanian: bagazh (sq) m
• Amharic: ሻንጣ (šanṭa)
• Arabic: أَمْتِعَة m pl (ʔamtiʕa), عَفْش m (ʕafš)

  Egyptian Arabic: عفش m (ʕafš)

  Moroccan Arabic: بكاج (bakāž)

• Armenian: ուղեբեռ (hy) (uġebeṙ)
• Azerbaijani: baqaj, yük (az)
• Bashkir: багаж (bagaj), йөк (yök)
• Belarusian: бага́ж (be) m (baháž)
• Bengali: মাল (bn) (mal), সামান (bn) (śaman)
• Bhojpuri: सामान (sāmān)
• Bulgarian: бага́ж (bg) m (bagáž)
• Burmese: ဝန်စည်စလယ် (my) (wancanyca.lai)
• Catalan: equipatge (ca) m, bagatge m
• Chichewa: katundu
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 行李 (hang⁴ lei⁵)

  Mandarin: 行李 (zh) (xínglǐ), 行李箱 (zh) (xínglixiāng), 旅行箱 (zh) (lǚxíngxiāng) (for cases); 行李包 (xíngli bāo), 旅行包 (lǚxíng bāo) (for bags); 箱籠 / 箱笼 (zh) (xiānglǒng)

• Crimean Tatar: bagaj
• Czech: zavazadlo (cs) n, zavazadla n pl
• Danish: bagage (da) c
• Dutch: bagage (nl) f
• Egyptian: (qnj m)
• Esperanto: pakaĵo, bagaĝo
• Estonian: pagas (et)
• Finnish: matkatavarat
• French: bagage (fr) m
• Galician: bagaxe f, equipaxe (gl) f
• Gallurese: bagagliu
• Georgian: ბარგი (bargi)
• German: Gepäck (de) n, Gepäckstück (de) n, Reisegepäck (de) n, (metaphorical) Ballast (de) m
• Greek: αποσκευές (el) f pl (aposkevés)

  Ancient: σκεῦος n (skeûos)

• Hebrew: מִטְעָן (he) m (mitán)
• Hindi: सामान (hi) m (sāmān)
• Hungarian: poggyász (hu), csomag (hu)
• Icelandic: farangur (is) m
• Ido: bagajo (io)
• Indonesian: bagasi (id)
• Irish: bagáiste m
• Italian: bagagli (it) m pl
• Japanese: 荷物 (ja) (にもつ, nimotsu), 手荷物 (ja) (てにもつ, tenimotsu)
• Kazakh: багаж (bagaj), жүк (jük)
• Khmer: ភារវត្ថុ (phiərĕəʼvŏətthoʼ)
• Korean: 수하물(手荷物) (ko) (suhamul), 짐 (ko) (jim)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: bagaj (ku)

• Kyrgyz: багаж (ky) (bagaj), жүк (ky) (jük)
• Lao: ກະເປົາ (lo) (ka pao)
• Latin: sarcinae f pl
• Latvian: bagāža f
• Lithuanian: bagažas (lt) m
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: begazie, pakkazie

• Luhya: kumzigo
• Macedonian: багаж m (bagaž), патни торби f pl (patni torbi)
• Malay: bagasi (ms)
• Maori: tueke (used as a plural), kawenga
• Mongolian: ачаа (mn) (ačaa), тээш (mn) (teeš), багааж (bagaaž)
• North Frisian: (Mooring) bagoosch n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bagasje (no) m

  Nynorsk: bagasje m

• Occitan: bagatge (oc) m
• Pashto: لټ لوپړي m (laṭ lupṛi), ډانګډبلی m (ḍagḍablay), کډه کوډه f (kaḍa kuḍa)
• Persian: چمدان (fa) (čamedân), بار (fa) (bâr), توشه (fa) (tuše) (archaic), زاد (fa) (zâd) (archaic), وسیله (fa) (vasile), وسایل (fa) (vasâyel)
• Plautdietsch: Jepak n
• Polish: bagaż (pl) m
• Portuguese: bagagem (pt) f
• Romanian: bagaj (ro) n
• Russian: бага́ж (ru) m (bagáž)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: bagalliu, strexu

  Logudorese: badàlcu, badalculu, bagalliu, bagagliu

• Scottish Gaelic: lòdrach f, pacraidhe f, sacraidh f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пр̀тља̄г m, пртља́га m

  Roman: pr̀tljāg (sh) m, prtljága (sh) m

• Sinhalese: ගමන් මලු (gaman malu)
• Slovak: batožina (sk) f
• Slovene: prtljaga (sl) f
• Spanish: equipaje (es) m
• Swahili: mzigo (sw)
• Swedish: bagage (sv) c
• Tagalog: dala-dalahan, bagahe
• Tajik: бағоҷ (baġoj), бор (tg) (bor)
• Tatar: багаж (bağaj), йөк (tt) (yök)
• Telugu: సామాను (te) (sāmānu)
• Thai: สัมภาระ (th) (sǎm-paa-rá), กระเป๋าเดินทาง (grà-bpǎo-dəən-taang), หีบห่อ (hìip-hɔ̀ɔ)
• Tibetan: དོ་པོ (do po)
• Turkish: bagaj (tr), yük (tr)
• Turkmen: bagaž (tk), ýük
• Ukrainian: бага́ж (uk) m (baháž)
• Urdu: سامان m (sāmān)
• Uyghur: يۈك-تاق (yük-taq), شىڭلى (shingli), يۈك (yük)
• Uzbek: bagaj (uz), yuk (uz)
• Vietnamese: hành lý (vi) (行李)
• West Frisian: bagaazje
• Yiddish: באַגאַזש m (bagazh)