Meaning

1 senses

  1. To spear with an assegai.

Origin

From French azagaie (now zagaie) or Portuguese azagaia, Spanish azagaya, and later in the

From French azagaie (now zagaie) or Portuguese azagaia, Spanish azagaya, and later in the forms that have become most common borrowed from Afrikaans assegaai, from colloquial Arabic اَلزَّغَايَة (az-zaḡāya), from Proto-Berber *zaġāya (“spear”).

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Forms

assegais, assegaiing, assegaied, assegaied
Base formassegai · to assegai
3rd person singularassegais
Present participleassegaiing
Past simpleassegaied
Past participleassegaied

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyassegai
he, she, itassegais

Past simpleLesson

all personsassegaied

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave assegaied
he, she, ithas assegaied

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill assegai

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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