bakong

Malay

Noun

bakong

1. (dialectal, Sambas) water hyacinth

Maranao

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bakuŋ, from Proto-Austronesian *bakuŋ.

Noun

bakong

1. (botany) a plant with a white flower, used as a medicine for stomach ache (Crinum asiaticum)

References

• Howard P. McKaughan, Batua A. Macaraya (1967) A Maranao Dictionary‎^[1] (overall work in Maranao and English), University of Hawaii Press

Tagalog

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bakuŋ, from Proto-Austronesian *bakuŋ.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbakoŋ/ [ˈbaː.xoŋ]
• Rhymes: -akoŋ
• Syllabification: ba‧kong

Noun

bakong (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜃᜓᜅ᜔) (botany)

1. spider lily (Crinum asiaticum)

Further reading

• “bakong”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• “bakong”, in Pinoy Dictionary, 2010–2024
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*bakuŋ”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Anagrams

• bangko