specialist in occult sciences foretelling the future · magus: priest of the Zoroastrian religion, of the Persians and Medes · wise man (one of the three wise men that came from the East to Bethlehem for Jesus Christ)
çekim: çoğul mages
eş: astrologue, devin, marabout, voyant
köken: From Latin magus.
Après une violente dispute avec son mari, elle consulte un mage qui lui prédit un sombre avenir.
köken: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic влъхвъ (vlŭxvŭ), from Old Church Slavonic влъснѫти (vlŭsnǫti, “to stutter”), referring to the trances the priests used in their ceremonies.
köken: Reborrowing from Arabic مَجُوس (majūs) + ـی (-i, suffix forming adjectives). Ultimately of the same indeterminate Old Iranian origin as indigenous Persian مغ (moġ) and Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos).
köken: From Old Danish maghær, from Old Norse magr (“thin, meager”), from Proto-Germanic *magraz, from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Compare Ancient Greek μακρός (makrós)