alimango

See also: Alimango

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔaliˈmaŋo/ [ʔɐ.l̪ɪˈma.ŋo]
• Hyphenation: a‧li‧ma‧ngo

Noun

alimango

1. giant mud crab (Scylla serrata)

Masbatenyo

Noun

alimango

1. large crab

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• alimang̃o — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qali-maŋu. Compare Cebuano alimango, Hiligaynon alimango, and Yami alimango.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaliˈmaŋo/ [ʔɐ.lɪˈmaː.ŋo]
• Rhymes: -aŋo
• Syllabification: a‧li‧ma‧ngo
• Homophone: Alimango

Noun

alimango (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜒᜋᜅᜓ)

1. (loosely) crab

   Synonyms: kangreho, (Mogpog Marinduque) butot

2. (strictly) giant mud crab (Scylla serrata, a species of large black crab)

Derived terms

• alimangong-bakunog
• alimangong-bato

 

Related terms

• Alimango

 

See also

• alimasag
• ayama
• katang
• sikat-sikat
• talangka

 

Adjective

alimango (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜒᜋᜅᜓ)

1. (astronomy, figurative, obsolete) gibbous (of the moon)

   Alimango ang buwan.

   The moon is gibbous.

   (literally, “The moon is crab-shaped.”)

Further reading

• “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; et al. (2023) “*qali-maŋu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Anagrams

• Maglinao

Waray-Waray

Noun

alimango

1. crab

Yami

Noun

alimango

1. a kind of crab