alimango
See also: Alimango
Cebuano edit
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alimango
Masbatenyo edit
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alimango
Tagalog edit
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Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qali-maŋu. Compare Cebuano alimango, Hiligaynon alimango, and Yami alimango.
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔaliˈmaŋo/ [ʔɐ.lɪˈma.ŋo]
- Rhymes: -aŋo
- Syllabification: a‧li‧ma‧ngo
- Homophone: Alimango
Noun edit
alimango (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜒᜋᜅᜓ)
- (loosely) crab
- (strictly) giant mud crab (Scylla serrata, a species of large black crab)
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Adjective edit
alimango (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜒᜋᜅᜓ)
- (astronomy, figurative, obsolete) gibbous (of the moon)
- Alimango ang buwan.
- The moon is gibbous.
- (literally, “The moon is crab-shaped.”)
Further reading edit
- “alimango”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 23.
- Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- Blust, Robert, Trussel, Stephen (2010–) “*qali-maŋu”, in The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary
Waray-Waray edit
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alimango
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alimango