жага

Ultimately from German Säge. Compare Serbo-Croatian жа́га, Romanian joagăr. Akin to native Bulgarian секи́ра (sekíra, “axe”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈʒa̟ɡɐ]

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жа́га • (žága) f

1. large saw (for wood or rock)

   Hypernym: трио́н (trión)

• джа́га (džága)

• жа́гам (žágam, “to cut with saw”) (dialectal)
• жа́гарица (žágarica, “sawmill”) (dialectal)

• “жага”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1971), “жага”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 1 (А – З), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, →ISBN, page 521

From Old High German saga, from Proto-Germanic *sagō, from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).

• IPA^(key): /ʒǎːɡa/
• Hyphenation: жа‧га

жа́га f (Latin spelling žága)

1. saw

• (saw): пи́ла, тестѐра

• жагати