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jaga
/ˈd͡ʒaɡa/
noun 4verb 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
outside, turned
VERB + JAGA
approached, boarding, help, helped, house, keys, place
JAGA + NOUN
girls, migrant, nightwatchman, workers
ADV.
always, hurriedly
Definitions
verb
1
To keep watch, to watch over.
[…] I better go to Ma’s place. You jaga the girls.
“Next to my shop, there was this auntie selling joss sticks and traditional Chinese items,” Mr Kadir said. “She would always help to jaga my shop when I need to go out, and when customers come she will help me to tell them to wait. After the work day finishes, she’ll always tell me to go home safely, I always remember that.”
noun
1
A guard or watchman.
The driver, holding a bunch of keys, approached the jaga, and told him that the kepala of the company, the Hock Lam Company, — in North Bridge Road, had sent him to collect some goods.
At the boarding house, the jaga — nightwatchman — hurriedly turned on all the lights so that everyone could see what was happening.
noun
1
A member of a Hindu caste-based group of people who were traditionally genealogists.
2
A member of a Muslim community in Uttar Pradesh, India, converts from the Hindu Jaga Bhatt caste.
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[…] I better go to Ma’s place. You jaga the girls.
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“Next to my shop, there was this auntie selling joss sticks and traditional Chinese items,” Mr Kadir said. “She would always help to jaga my shop when I need to go out, and when customers come she wil
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We sat around at the NLB after midnight and helped to jaga these migrant workers who were painting.
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The driver, holding a bunch of keys, approached the jaga, and told him that the kepala of the company, the Hock Lam Company, — in North Bridge Road, had sent him to collect some goods.
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At the boarding house, the jaga — nightwatchman — hurriedly turned on all the lights so that everyone could see what was happening.
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The Oldham Lane home was a big flat with an office below us and Oldham Hall up the hill. An Indian jaga slept outside the office on his charpoy (rope bed) and he cooked in the open.
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