sagan

sagan (plural sagans)

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

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

sagan f

1. definite nominative singular of saga

sagan

1. nominative singular definite of saga

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ɡan/

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• Rhymes: -aɡan
• Syllabification: sa‧gan

sagan m inan

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

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

sagan

1. definite singular of saga

• agans