dugong
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) enPR: doo͞ʹgŏng, IPA(key): /ˈduɡɑŋ/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dyoo͞ʹgŏng, IPA(key): /ˈdjuːɡɒŋ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]dugong (plural dugongs)
- A plant-eating aquatic marine mammal, of the genus Dugong, found in tropical regions.
- 1988, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, William Heinemann Ltd, page 37:
- “What are those things that aren’t seals? Much worse than seals. Big, blubbery things. Dugongs.”
Descendants
[edit]- Australian Kriol: jugong
- Torres Strait Creole: dugong
- → Finnish: dugongi
- → French: dugong
- → Indonesian: dugong
- → Italian: dugongo
- → Malay: dugong
- → Portuguese: dugongo
- → Welsh: dwgong
- → Japanese: 儒艮
- → Chinese: 儒艮 (rúgèn)
Translations
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See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Cebuano
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duyuŋ from Proto-Austronesian *duyuŋ.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation: du‧gong
Noun
[edit]dugong
- a dugong
Descendants
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]dugong m (plural dugongs)
Further reading
[edit]- “dugong”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]dugong (first-person possessive dugongku, second-person possessive dugongmu, third-person possessive dugongnya)
- dugong (Dugong dugon)
Synonyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “dugong” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Malay
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong. Doublet of duyung.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /duɡoŋ/
- (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /duɡʊŋ/
- Rhymes: -uɡoŋ, -ɡoŋ, -oŋ
Noun
[edit]dugong (Jawi spelling دوݢوڠ, plural dugong-dugong, informal 1st possessive dugongku, 2nd possessive dugongmu, 3rd possessive dugongnya)
- dugong (Dugong dugon)
Synonyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “dugong” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.
Noun
[edit]dugong m (definite singular dugongen, indefinite plural dugonger, definite plural dugongene)
- a dugong
References
[edit]- “dugong” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.
Noun
[edit]dugong m (definite singular dugongen, indefinite plural dugongar, definite plural dugongane)
- a dugong
Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Cebuano dugong, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duyuŋ (“sea cow; dugong”). Doublet of duyong.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈduɡoŋ/ [ˈd̪uː.ɣoŋ]
- Rhymes: -uɡoŋ
- Syllabification: du‧gong
Noun
[edit]dugong (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜄᜓᜅ᜔)
Further reading
[edit]- “dugong”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Torres Strait Creole
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.
Noun
[edit]dugong
Synonyms
[edit]- dhangal (western dialect)
- English terms borrowed from Cebuano
- English terms derived from Cebuano
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- en:Dugongs and manatees
- Cebuano terms inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Cebuano terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Cebuano terms inherited from Proto-Austronesian
- Cebuano terms derived from Proto-Austronesian
- Cebuano lemmas
- Cebuano nouns
- ceb:Dugongs and manatees
- French terms derived from English
- French terms derived from Cebuano
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Dugongs and manatees
- Indonesian terms derived from English
- Indonesian terms derived from Cebuano
- Indonesian 2-syllable words
- Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Indonesian/ɡɔŋ
- Rhymes:Indonesian/ɡɔŋ/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Indonesian/ɔŋ
- Rhymes:Indonesian/ɔŋ/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Indonesian/ŋ
- Rhymes:Indonesian/ŋ/2 syllables
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
- id:Dugongs and manatees
- Malay terms derived from English
- Malay terms derived from Cebuano
- Malay doublets
- Malay 2-syllable words
- Malay terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Malay/uɡoŋ
- Rhymes:Malay/ɡoŋ
- Rhymes:Malay/oŋ
- Malay lemmas
- Malay nouns
- ms:Dugongs and manatees
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from English
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Cebuano
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- nb:Mammals
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from English
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Cebuano
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
- nn:Mammals
- nn:Dugongs and manatees
- Tagalog terms borrowed from Cebuano
- Tagalog terms derived from Cebuano
- Tagalog terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Tagalog doublets
- Tagalog 2-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/uɡoŋ
- Rhymes:Tagalog/uɡoŋ/2 syllables
- Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog nouns
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- tl:Dugongs and manatees
- Torres Strait Creole terms derived from English
- Torres Strait Creole terms derived from Cebuano
- Torres Strait Creole lemmas
- Torres Strait Creole nouns
- tcs:Dugongs and manatees