alimango

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Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔaliˈmaŋo/
  • Hyphenation: a‧li‧ma‧ngo

Noun

alimango

  1. giant mud crab (Scylla serrata)

Masbatenyo

Noun

alimango

  1. large crab

Tagalog

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Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qali-maŋu. Compare Cebuano alimango, Hiligaynon alimango, and Yami alimango.

Pronunciation

Noun

alimango (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜒᜋᜅᜓ)

  1. (loosely) crab
    Synonyms: kangreho, (Mogpog Marinduque) butot
  2. (strictly) giant mud crab (Scylla serrata, a species of large black crab)

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Adjective

alimango (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜒᜋᜅᜓ)

  1. (astronomy, figurative, obsolete) gibbous (of the moon)
    Alimango ang buwan.
    The moon is gibbous.
    (literally, “The moon is crab-shaped.”)

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Waray-Waray

Noun

alimango

  1. crab

Yami

Noun

alimango

  1. a kind of crab
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