מַגָּע, (נָגַע) touch, contact. Kel. I, 1, a. fr. מטמא במ׳, makes unclean by contact. Toh. VI, 4 ספק מַגַּע טומאה וכ׳ a doubt as to having touched an unclean thing is judged in favor of uncleanness; Ab. Zar. 70ᵃ, a. e.—מַגַּע נכרי wine touched by a gentile suspected of idolatrous manipulations. Ib. 58ᵇ.—Ib. 69ᵃ מ׳ חבירו another ignorant man’s touching things kept in levitical cleanness; a. fr.—Pl. מַגָּעוֹת. Y. Sabb. VII, 9ᵈ bot., v. מִדָּף.—Constr. מַגָּעֵי. Y. Pes. VII, 34ᵈ bot. מ׳ זבין those unclean through contact with gonorrhoeists.