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

Esperanto Wikipedia has an article on:

sango

Wikipedia ^eo

From French sang and Italian sangue, from Latin sanguī̆s.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsanɡo/

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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

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

Cognate with Sahu sangoro.

• 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

From Ternate sango.

• IPA^(key): /ˈs̪a.ŋo/

sango

1. (intransitive) to answer

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