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Portuguese
Etymology
From Spanish porongo.
Pronunciation
Noun
porongo m (plural porongos)
- gourd (the dried and hardened shell of a gourd fruit)
- Synonyms: cabaça, cuia
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Quechua purunku (“calabash, plant and fruit and vessel of the calabash vine”), itself probably an ancient wanderwort from the South Sea for an inedible variety of calabash vine.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /poˈɾonɡo/
- Rhymes: -onɡo
- Syllabification: po‧ron‧go
Noun
porongo m (plural porongos)
- calabash
References
- Friederici, Georg (1960) Amerikanistisches Wörterbuch und Hilfswörterbuch für den Amerikanisten. Deutsch-Spanisch-Englisch (Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiet der Auslandskunde / Reihe B: Völkerkunde, Kulturgeschichte und Sprachen; 53), 2nd edition, Hamburg: Cram, De Gruyter & Co., →DOI, page 524b
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