naga

plural nagas

1. AustraliaA loincloth.

   Boys and many of the men wear the naga, akin to bathing trunks […]

   1926 October 30, The Sydney Morning Herald

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   […] a young lubra wearing nothing but a naga of paper-bark rose and came forward shyly.

   1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter II, in Capricornia, page 22

   PAUL RUNDLE: Backstage, they were just asking us, "Where are you from," and all that. And they were touching us and all that there, and I was just there with my little naga and, yeah. And plus we had no ochre, so we had to use sunscreen.

   2006, Message Stick, ABC1, Friday, 30 June, 2006

   2008, Derrick Tomlinson, "Too white to be regarded as Aborigines: An historical analysis of policies for the protection of Aborigines and the assimilation of Aborigines of mixed descent, and the role of Chief Protectors of Aborigines in the formulation and implementation of those policies, in Western Australia from 1898 to 1940" (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)). University of Notre Dame Australia. They doesn’t dress like people doing the Law this time, walking in shirt and tie, they used to have naga and really truly paint up, real tribal way, you know?

plural nagas · alternative nāga · alternative Nāga

1. Indian mythologyA member of a class of semi-divine creatures, often taking the form of a very large snake and associated with water.

   The five-coned towers form a quincunx, and their flanks are scooped into niches in each of which has been placed a smiling buddha shaded by a nine-headed naga like a big palm fan.

   1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 257

2. slanglifestyleA fictional creature with the lower body of a snake, and an upper body either of an anthropomorphic version thereof, or of a human or another humanoid creature. The serpentine equivalent of a taur.

   Coordinate term: lamia

plural Nagas

1. A member of a conglomeration of various tribes, living in Nagaland (India) and surrounding areas, and speaking various Tibeto-Burman languages.

1. A provincial city in Camarines Sur, Philippines.
2. A city in Cebu, Philippines.
3. A municipality of Zamboanga Sibugay, Philippines.