English
Etymology
1590s, lug ( “ to drag ” ) + -age , literally “that which is lugged, dragged around”.[1] Duplicate -g- is to clarify pronunciation of the vowel ‘u’ (which is pronounced unchanged from lug ). Compare baggage .
Pronunciation
( UK , US ) enPR : lŭg'ĭj , IPA (key ) : /ˈlʌɡɪd͡ʒ/
Rhymes: -ʌɡɪdʒ
Hyphenation: lug‧gage
Noun
luggage (usually uncountable , plural luggages )
A man carrying his luggage (1).
( uncountable ) The bags and other containers that hold a traveller 's belongings .
( uncountable ) The contents of such containers.
( countable , nonstandard or obsolete ) A specific bag or container holding a traveller's belongings.
1858 , “Letter from Rev. George L. Seymour”, in The African Repository and Colonial Journal , volume 34, page 13:I assisted some time ago in cutting up a tree, that made tolerably good turns or luggages for nineteen or twenty persons, which could be procured for about two dollars at the stump.
1875 , W. G. Willson, Report of the Midnapore and Burdwan Cyclone of the 15th and 16th of October 1874 [1] :The passengers injured who could not get out were removed out by the railway staff, and then taking part of the luggages the train started back for Burdwan.
2012 , Colin MacInnes, City of Spades [2] :Namely, leaving my luggages at the Government hostel, to go straight out by taxi (oh, so slow, compared with our sleek Lagos limousines!) to the famous central Piccadilly Tube station where I took a onestop ticket, went down on the escalator, and then ran up the same steps in the wrong direction .
Synonyms
Derived terms
hold luggage
cabin luggage
carry-on luggage
checked luggage
hand luggage
Translations
traveller's containers
Afrikaans: bagasie
Albanian: bagazh (sq) m
Amharic: ሻንጣ ( šanṭa )
Arabic: أَمْتِعَة m pl ( ʾamtiʿa ) , عَفْش m ( ʿafš )
Egyptian Arabic: عفش m ( ʿafš )
Moroccan Arabic: بكاج ( bakāž )
Armenian: ուղեբեռ (hy) ( ułebeṙ )
Azerbaijani: baqaj , yük (az)
Bashkir: багаж ( bagaj ) , йөк ( yök )
Belarusian: бага́ж (be) m ( baháž )
Bengali: সামান ( saman )
Bulgarian: бага́ж (bg) m ( bagáž )
Burmese: ဝန်စည်စလယ် (my) ( wancanyca.lai )
Catalan: equipatge (ca) m , bagatge m
Chichewa: katundu
Chinese:
Cantonese: 行李 ( hang4 lei5 )
Mandarin: 行李 (zh) ( xínglǐ ) , 行李箱 (zh) ( xínglixiāng ) , 旅行箱 ( lǚxíngxiāng ) ( for cases ) ; 行李 包 ( xíngli bāo ) , 旅行 包 ( lǚxíng bāo ) ( for bags ) ; 箱籠 (zh) , 箱笼 (zh) ( xiānglǒng )
Crimean Tatar: bagaj
Czech: zavazadlo (cs) n , zavazadla n pl
Danish: bagage (da) c
Dutch: bagage (nl) f
Egyptian: (qnj m )
Esperanto: pakaĵo , bagaĝo
Estonian: pagas (et)
Finnish: matkatavarat
French: bagage (fr) m
Galician: bagaxe f , equipaxe (gl) f
Gallurese: bagagliu
Georgian : ბარგი ( bargi )
German: Gepäck (de) n , Gepäckstück (de) n , Reisegepäck (de) n , ( metaphorical ) Ballast (de) m
Greek: αποσκευές (el) f pl ( aposkevés )
Ancient: σκεῦος n ( skeûos )
Hebrew: מִטְעָן (he) m ( mitán )
Hindi: सामान (hi) m ( sāmān )
Hungarian: poggyász (hu) , csomag (hu)
Icelandic: farangur (is) m
Ido: bagajo (io)
Indonesian: bagasi (id)
Irish: bagáiste m
Italian: bagagli (it) m pl
Japanese: 荷物 (ja) ( にもつ, nimotsu ) , 手荷物 ( てにもつ, tenimotsu )
Kazakh: багаж ( bagaj ) , жүк (kk) ( jük )
Khmer: ភារវត្ថុ ( phiərĕəʼvŏətthoʼ )
Korean: 수하물(手荷物) (ko) ( suhamul ) , 짐 (ko) ( jim )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: bagaj (ku)
Kyrgyz: багаж (ky) ( bağaj ) , жүк (ky) ( jük )
Lao: ກະເປົາ (lo) ( ka pao )
Latin: sarcinae f pl
Latvian: bagāža f
Lithuanian: bagažas (lt) m
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: begazie , pakkazie
Luhya: kumzigo
Macedonian: багаж m ( bagaž ) , патни торби f pl ( patni torbi )
Malay: bagasi
Maori: tueke ( used as a plural ) , kawenga
Mongolian: ачаа (mn) ( achaa ) , тээш (mn) ( teesh ) , багааж ( bagaaj )
North Frisian: ( Mooring ) bagoosch n
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bagasje (no) m
Nynorsk: bagasje m
Occitan: bagatge (oc) m
Pashto: لټ لوپړي m ( laṭ luрṛi ) , ډانګډبلی m ( ḍagḍablay ) , کډه کوډه f ( kaḍa kuḍa )
Persian: چمدان (fa) ( čamedân ) , بار (fa) ( bâr ) , توشه (fa) ( tuše ) ( archaic ) , زاد (fa) ( zâd ) ( archaic ) , وسیله (fa) ( vasile ) , وسایل (fa) ( vasâyel )
Plautdietsch: Jepak n
Polish: bagaż (pl) m
Portuguese: bagagem (pt) f
Romanian: bagaj (ro) n
Russian: бага́ж (ru) m ( bagáž )
Sardinian:
Campidanese: bagalliu , strexu
Logudorese: badàlcu , badalculu , bagalliu , bagagliu
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пр̀тља̄г m , пртља́га m
Roman: pr̀tljāg (sh) m , prtljága (sh) m
Sinhalese: ලගෙජ් ( lagej ) , ගමන් මලු ( gaman malu )
Slovak: batožina (sk) f
Slovene: prtljaga (sl) f
Spanish: equipaje (es) m
Swahili: mzigo (sw)
Swedish: bagage (sv) c
Tagalog: dala-dalahan , bagahe
Tajik: бағоҷ ( baġoj ) , бор (tg) ( bor )
Tatar: багаж ( bağaj ) , йөк (tt) ( yök )
Telugu: సామాను (te) ( sāmānu )
Thai: สัมภาระ (th) ( sǎm-paa-rá ) , กระเป๋าเดินทาง ( grà-bpǎo-dəən-taang ) , หีบห่อ ( hìip-hɔ̀ɔ )
Tibetan: དོ་པོ ( do po )
Turkish: bagaj (tr) , yük (tr)
Turkmen: bagaž (tk) , ýük
Ukrainian: бага́ж (uk) m ( baháž )
Urdu: سامان m ( sāmān )
Uyghur: يۈك-تاق ( yük-taq ) , شىڭلى ( shingli ) , يۈك ( yük )
Uzbek: bagaj (uz) , yuk (uz)
Vietnamese: hành lý (vi) (行李 )
West Frisian: bagaazje
Yiddish: באַגאַזש m ( bagazh )
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