bungo
See also: buŋo
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Japanese 文語 (bungo, “writing language”).
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bungo (uncountable)
- A Japanese written language established mainly during the Heian period, circa 900–1200 C.E., and commonly used until circa 1900.
Synonyms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Spanish bongo (“large canoe”).
Noun edit
bungo (plural bungos or bungoes)
- A kind of large canoe used in the southern United States, Central America, and South America.
- 1828, an officer of the Colombian Navy, Recollections of a Service of Three Years During the War-of-Extermination:
- On the third day a bungo passed us, coming down the river from New Grenada, with a cargo and passengers to Santa Martha and the parts adjacent
- 2005, William Harwar Parker, Recollections of a Confederate Naval Officer, Digital Antiquaria, →ISBN, page 159:
- He and a number of others bought a bungo (a large canoe), and in it actually started for San Francisco, a distance of more than three thousand miles. The party chose for leader one Chris. Lilly, a pugilist, […]
- A large sailboat once used in Mexico.[1]
Further reading edit
- “bungo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
References edit
- ^ John Lloyd Stephens (1841): Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan: Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, volume 2. Published by Harper& Brothers. Page 383
Asi edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Philippine *buŋuq.
Noun edit
bungô
Bikol Central edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Philippine *buŋuq.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bungô
See also edit
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
bungo
Tagalog edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Philippine *buŋuq.
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /buˈŋoʔ/ [bʊˈŋoʔ]
- Rhymes: -oʔ
- Syllabification: bu‧ngo
Noun edit
bungô (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜅᜓ)