guro
See also: Guro
English edit
Etymology edit
Reborrowed from Japanese グロ (guro), from English grotesque.
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guro (uncountable)
- A subgenre of manga and anime focusing on gore and mutilation.
- Hypernym: gore
- 2009, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?: Critical Perspectives on Sexuality and Pornography in Science and Social Fiction:
- And maybe the Moravecian dream would be especially exciting for fans of guro manga who want to live out all the fantasies to have sex like the immortal Mai in Waita Uziga's Mai-chan's Daily Life, who stay alive even after being violently mutilated […]
- 2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, Animation & Cartoons:
- The scope of hentai encompasses the entire range of sexual fetishes, including […] Guro, focusing on imaginative gore and mutilation.
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guro
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guro f
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Malay guru (“teacher; educator”), ultimately from Sanskrit गुरु (gurú). Reintroduced by Eusebio T. Daluz in the early 20th century as a replacement to the previously used words maestro and maestra, both of Spanish origin. Doublet of gulo, another term from Malay guru, that become obsolete in the course of the 19th century. Compare English guru.
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gurò or gurô (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜇᜓ) (education)
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Further reading edit
- Jean-Paul G. POTET (2016) Seventeenth-Century Events at Liliw[1], Jean-Paul G. POTET, page 42
- Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 283
- Santos, Lope K. (1938) Sources and Means for Further Enrichment of Tagalog as Our National Language[2], University of the Philippines
- Daluz, Eusebio T. (1915) Filipino-English vocabulary: with practical example of Filipino and English grammars, Manila: Akademya ng Wikang Filipino, page 5.