bungo

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Japanese 文(ぶん)語(ご) (bungo, “writing language”).

Alternative forms

• Bungo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʊŋɡəʊ/

Noun

bungo (uncountable)

1. A Japanese written language established mainly during the Heian period, circa 900–1200 C.E., and commonly used until circa 1900.

Synonyms

• Classical Japanese

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish bongo (“large canoe”).

Noun

bungo (plural bungos or bungoes)

1. A kind of large canoe used in the southern United States, Central America, and South America.
   • 1828, an officer of the Colombian Navy, Recollections of a Service of Three Years During the War-of-Extermination:

     On the third day a bungo passed us, coming down the river from New Grenada, with a cargo and passengers to Santa Martha and the parts adjacent

   • 2005, William Harwar Parker, Recollections of a Confederate Naval Officer, Digital Antiquaria, →ISBN, page 159:

     He and a number of others bought a bungo (a large canoe), and in it actually started for San Francisco, a distance of more than three thousand miles. The party chose for leader one Chris. Lilly, a pugilist, […]

2. A large sailboat once used in Mexico.

Further reading

• “bungo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

References

Asi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *buŋuq.

Noun

bungô

1. (anatomy) skull

Bikol Central

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *buŋuq.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bu‧ngo
• IPA^(key): /buˈŋoʔ/,

Noun

bungô

1. (anatomy) skull
2. (anatomy) skeleton

   Synonym: kalabera

See also

Japanese

Romanization

bungo

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぶんご

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• bong̃o, bung̃o

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *buŋuq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buˈŋoʔ/,
• Rhymes: -oʔ
• Hyphenation: bu‧ngo

Noun

bungô (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜅᜓ)

1. (anatomy) skull

See also