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Cebuano
Pronunciation
Verb
tungko
- to squat, to crouch
- Synonyms: gak-ang, iskwat, puk-ong, pungko, tuk-ong
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay tungku. Compare Javanese ꦠꦸꦁꦏꦸ (tungku).
Pronunciation
Noun
tungkô (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜅ᜔ᜃᜓ)
- a kind of native stove with a trivet or tripod stone base (to hold a pot or other cooking containers)
- tripod
- Synonym: tripode
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Further reading
- “tungko”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) loan “trivet”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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