cangue

English

Etymology

From French cangue, from Portuguese canga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæŋ/
• Rhymes: -æŋ

Noun

cangue (plural cangues)

1. A heavy wooden collar or yoke borne on the shoulders and enclosing the neck and arms, formerly used in East Asia to punish thieves and other criminals.

Translations

heavy wooden collar or yoke

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 枷 (zh) (jiā), 木枷 (mùjiā), 枷鎖／枷锁 (zh) (jiāsuǒ)

• Finnish: häpeälauta
• Japanese: 枷 (ja) (kase), 首枷 (ja) (kubikase)
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• Vietnamese: gông (vi)

Anagrams

• uncage

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

cangue f (plural cangues)

1. cangue

Further reading

• “cangue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Verb

cangue

1. inflection of cangar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative