warg

Learned borrowing from Old Norse vargr (“wolf”), reintroduced by J. R. R. Tolkien; compare also Old English wearg.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈwɑːɡ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwoɹɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɡ

warg (plural wargs)

1. (fantasy, mythology) A type of particularly wild or hostile wolf. [from 20th c.]
   • 1937 September 21, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again, 3rd edition, London: Unwin Books, George Allen & Unwin, published 1966 (1970 printing), →ISBN:

     Every now and then all the Wargs in the circle would answer their grey chief all together […] .

   • 1993, jbatka, “Multiple colors for PC compatible”, in rec.hack (Usenet):

     My question is do all of the executable versions for PC compatibles have the color option enabled? If so, what am I missing to not get say yellow for a hill orc, grey for a goblin, white for my pet, red for a wolf, brown for a warg, etc?

   • 1999, George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 462:

     He'd bought a ton of silver to forge magic swords that would slay the Stark wargs.

   • 2007, Stephen O Glosecki, Myth in Northwest Europe:

     The monsters are identified not as trolls, a word apparently not available in English at the time, but (among other things) as wargs, whatever that means; Grendel is called a heoro-wearh at line 1267 and his mother a grund-wyrgen at line 1518.

• dire wolf

• GAWR, Garw

From Old Norse vargr, from Proto-Germanic *wargaz, from Proto-Indo-European *werǵʰ-.

warg m

1. wolf

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vorgъ

• IPA^(key): /ˈvark/
• Syllabification: warg

warg m pers

1. enemy

   Synonyms: niedrëch, nieprzëjacél, nieprzëcél

• Jan Trepczyk (1994) “wróg”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “wróg”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎

• IPA^(key): /vark/
• Rhymes: -ark
• Syllabification: warg
• Homophone: wark

warg f

1. genitive plural of warga