bagage

From French bagage (“baggage, luggage”).

• IPA^(key): /baɡaːsjə/, [b̥aˈɡ̊æːɕə]

bagage c (singular definite bagagen, not used in plural form)

1. baggage; luggage

• “bagage” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from Middle French bagage. First attested in the 16th century.

• IPA^(key): /ˌbaːˈɣaː.ʒə/

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• Hyphenation: ba‧ga‧ge
• Rhymes: -aːʒə

bagage f (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. baggage; luggage

   Synonyms: bepakking, pakkage

2. (figuratively) load, a person's relevant (especially hindering) background

• Afrikaans: bagasie
• → Dutch Low Saxon: begazie, pakkazie
• → Malay: bagasi
  • Indonesian: bagasi
• → Sranan Tongo: bagasi
  • → Caribbean Javanese: bagasi

Either from Late Latin *baga (“a vessel type”), or from Old French bague (“pack, bundle”); ultimately from the North Germanic/Scandinavian source (Old Norse baggi) that yielded English bag.

• IPA^(key): /ba.ɡaʒ/

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• Homophone: baguage

bagage m (plural bagages)

1. baggage; luggage

• avec armes et bagages
• bagagiste
• plier bagage

• “bagage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From French bagage (“baggage”). Compare Guianese Creole bagaj.

bagage

1. (Saint-Domingue) an object, thing

   Vou va faire yo meté tout bagage-là dan passager. ― You'll make them put all those things on the passenger.

• Haitian Creole: bagay

• S. J. Ducœurjoly (1802), Manuel des habitans de Saint-Domingue [Manual of the Inhabitants of Saint-Domingue]‎^[1] (in French), Paris

Borrowed from Old French bagage, compare Old French bague. Equivalent to bagge +‎ -age.

• IPA^(key): /baˈɡad͡ʒ(ə)/

bagage (plural bagages)

1. baggage; luggage

• bagge (“bag”)

• English: baggage
• Scots: baggage
• → Irish: bagáiste

• bælg, belg

• “bagaǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• bagaige, baguage, baguaige

Old French bagage.

bagage m (plural bagages)

1. baggage (luggage; that which one transports with one)
   • 1552, Rabelais, Le Tiers Livre des Faits et Dicts Héroïques du bon Pantagruel:

     De butiner et robber le baguaige

     To plunder and rob the baggages

• Often used uncountably where English would use the plural baggages. See citation above.

• French: bagage (see there for further descendants)
• → Dutch: bagage
  • Afrikaans: bagasie
  • → Dutch Low Saxon: begazie, pakkazie
  • → Malay: bagasi
    • Indonesian: bagasi
  • → Sranan Tongo: bagasi
    • → Caribbean Javanese: bagasi

• bagage on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

From bague +‎ -age, ultimately from Old Norse baggi.

bagage oblique singular, m (oblique plural bagages, nominative singular bagages, nominative plural bagage)

1. baggage (luggage; that which one transports with one)

• bague

• Middle French: bagage, bagaige, baguage, baguaige
  • French: bagage (see there for further descendants)
  • → Dutch: bagage
    • Afrikaans: bagasie
    • → Dutch Low Saxon: begazie, pakkazie
    • → Malay: bagasi
      • Indonesian: bagasi
    • → Sranan Tongo: bagasi
      • → Caribbean Javanese: bagasi
• → Middle English: bagage
  • English: baggage
  • Scots: baggage
  • → Irish: bagáiste
• → Medieval Latin: bagāgium
• Piedmontese: bagagi

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “bagage”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.

Borrowed from French bagage.

• IPA^(key): /baˈɡɑːɧ/

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bagage n

1. baggage; luggage

• bagage in Svensk ordbok.