naga

noun

1. (Australia)A loincloth.

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

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

   “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.”

2. A 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.”

3. (slang)A 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”

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

name

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