Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

From Spanish porongo.

Pronunciation edit

 

  • Hyphenation: po‧ron‧go

Noun edit

porongo m (plural porongos)

  1. gourd (the dried and hardened shell of a gourd fruit)
    Synonyms: cabaça, cuia

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Quechua purunku (calabash, plant and fruit and vessel of the calabash vine), itself probably an ancient wanderwort from the South Sea for an inedible variety of calabash vine.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /poˈɾonɡo/ [poˈɾõŋ.ɡo]
  • Rhymes: -onɡo
  • Syllabification: po‧ron‧go

Noun edit

porongo m (plural porongos)

  1. calabash

References edit

  • Friederici, Georg (1960) Amerikanistisches Wörterbuch und Hilfswörterbuch für den Amerikanisten. Deutsch-Spanisch-Englisch (Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiet der Auslandskunde / Reihe B: Völkerkunde, Kulturgeschichte und Sprachen; 53), 2nd edition, Hamburg: Cram, De Gruyter & Co., →DOI, page 524b

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