sango

Abbreviation of sandwich (pronounced "sangwich") + -o (colloquialising suffix). Australian from 1940s.

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈsæŋəʊ/

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• Rhymes: -æŋəʊ

sango (plural sangos or sangoes)

1. (dated, Australia, informal, colloquial) A sandwich.

Now more common is sanger.

• (Australia, Ireland, informal) sambo
• (Australia, informal) sammie, sammo, sanger
• (UK, informal) sarnie

• Macquarie Slang Dictionary lists sanger, with sango under “also”.

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sango (plural sangos)

1. (UK) A rudimentary wooden bridge in India.
   • 1824, Alexander Gerard, Journal of an Excursion through the Himalayah Mountains, from Shipke to the Frontiers of Chinese Tartary, David Brewster (editor), The Edinburgh Journal of Science, Volume 1: April—October, page 219,

     We crossed it and another stream a little above their union by a couple of bad sangos, and ascended from its bed by a rocky footpath, winding amongst extensive forests of oak, yew, pine, and horse chesnut, to Camp.

   • 1865, Henry Astbury Leveson, The Hunting Grounds of the Old World, page 459:

     Four large mountain torrents, the Dangalee, Dubrane, Loarnad, and Rindee Gadh, join the Ganges from the left bank, and have to be crossed by sangos.

• Ganos, Gaons, Goans, Nogas, agons, gaons, gosan

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *saŋu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaŋo/

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• Hyphenation: sa‧ngo

sángo (Basahan spelling ᜐᜅᜓ)

1. odor; smell; whiff

   Synonyms: parong, amyo

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sango

Wikipedia ^eo

From French sang and Italian sangue, from Latin sanguī̆s.

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• Rhymes: -anɡo
• Hyphenation: san‧go

sango (uncountable, accusative sangon)

1. blood

   Ĝi estis terura vidaĵo; sango kovris la tutan muron.

   It was a terrible sight; blood covered the entire wall.

• sangavida
• sangi
• sangosoifanta
• sangotransfuzo

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sango m (plural sangos)

1. Sango

From Esperanto sango, from French sang, Italian sangue, Spanish sangre, ultimately from Latin sanguis.

sango (uncountable)

1. blood

• sangala (“sanguine”)
• sangoza (“bloody, sanguinary”)
• sangifar (“to bleed”)
• sangocirkulado (“blood circulation”)
• sangomorbo (“blood disease”)
• sangovarsar (“to shed blood”)

sango

1. Rōmaji transcription of さんご

Inherited from Latin sanguem.

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sango m (plural sanghe)

1. blood

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – map 88: “il sangue” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “sango”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ŋo/

sango (Jawi ساڠو)

1. (intransitive) to answer, reply

   Synonym: fadu

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Cognate with, if not from, Ternate sango.

• IPA^(key): /ˈs̪a.ŋo/

sango

1. (intransitive) to answer

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics