Sega

See also: sega, segá, segà, segā, Sęga, and SEGA

English

Etymology

From Japanese セガ (Sega), an abbreviation of service games, because the company's earliest products were aimed at American servicemen on military bases.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseɪ.ɡə/
• Rhymes: -eɪɡə

Proper noun

Sega

1. (video games, trademark) A Japanese video game developer and publisher and manufacturer of arcade games and formerly of video game consoles.

Translations

Japanese videogame developer

• Amharic: ሴጋ f (sega)
• Arabic: سيغا f (sīġā)
• Bengali: সেগা (śega)
• Catalan: Sega f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 世嘉 (sai³ gaa¹)

  Mandarin: 世嘉 (Shìjiā)

• Hebrew: סֶגָה (he) f (Séga)
• Hindi: सेगा (hi) (segā)
• Italian: Sega f
• Japanese: セガ (Sega)
• Korean: 세가 (ko) (Sega)
• Persian: سگا (segâ)
• Punjabi: ਸੇਗਾ f (segā)
• Russian: Се́га (ru) f (Séga)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сѐга f

  Roman: Sèga (sh) f

• Tamil: சேகா (cēkā)
• Thai: เซก้า (see-gâa)
• Yiddish: סעגאַ f (sega)

Noun

Sega (plural Segas)

1. Any of various video game consoles manufactured by this company.
   • 2007, S. Westwood, Suicide Junkie:

     I would lay in bed for a few hours playing games on my Sega, getting totally absorbed in it as though it were all real and then I would sleep for the rest of the day.

Translations

console manufactured by Sega

Anagrams

• Sage, ages, geas, sage

Japanese

Romanization

Sega

1. Rōmaji transcription of セガ