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Cebuano
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡaŋo/
- Hyphenation: ga‧ngo
Noun
gango
- water-filled hole used to contain fish
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:gango.
Esperanto
Etymology
Borrowed from French gangue, from German Gang.
Pronunciation
Noun
gango (accusative singular gangon, plural gangoj, accusative plural gangojn)
- (geology, mining) gangue, tailings
- (geology, archaic) vein
- Synonym: vejno
Higaonon
Etymology
From gangu.
Adjective
gango
- dry
Maranao
Adjective
gango
- dry (dried)
Tagalog
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀaŋu. Compare Ilocano gango, Abenlen Ayta yango, Hanunoo gango, Calamian Tagbanwa langu, and Maranao gango.
Pronunciation
Adjective
gangó (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜅᜓ)
- stricken numb or dead (such as fish affected by pest, poisoning, or dynamiting)
- dried up; withered
- Synonyms: tuyot, nangangalirang
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “gango”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Zorc, David Paul (1982) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 3, page 134
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*Raŋu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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