See also: Fugu, fūgǔ, Fǔgǔ, fùgǔ, and fuĝu

English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Japanese 河豚 (fugu, blowfish).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

fugu (uncountable)

  1. Blowfish: a delicacy popular in Japan served raw as sushi that may, if improperly prepared, contain deadly levels of neurotoxins.
    • 2016 August 5, Justin McCurry, “Last supper? Japan's diners divided over killer puffer fish”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
      Twenty minutes later, the chef has successfully prepared a whole fugu—or puffer fish—a Japanese delicacy whose capacity to maim and kill is dividing the country’s culinary world.

Translations edit

Aromanian edit

Verb edit

fugu first-singular present indicative

  1. Alternative form of fug

Guinea-Bissau Creole edit

Etymology edit

From Portuguese fogo. Cognate with Kabuverdianu fogu.

Noun edit

fugu

  1. fire

Japanese edit

Romanization edit

fugu

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ふぐ
  2. Rōmaji transcription of フグ

Polish edit

 
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fugu (#1)
 
fugu (#2)

Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from English fugu.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈfu.ɡu/
  • Rhymes: -uɡu
  • Syllabification: fu‧gu

Noun edit

fugu f (indeclinable)

  1. spot-fin porcupinefish (Diodon hystrix)
    Synonyms: diodon, diodon jeżyk, jeżoryb, jeżówka, najeżka, rozdymka, rybojeż
  2. fugu (delicacy popular in Japan served raw as sushi that may, if improperly prepared, contain deadly levels of neurotoxins)

Further reading edit

  • fugu in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • fugu in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Japanese 河豚 (fugu, blowfish).

Pronunciation edit

  • Rhymes: -u
  • Hyphenation: fu‧gu

Noun edit

fugu m (plural fugus)

  1. fugu (blowfish, as a Japanese delicacy)

See also edit

Ternate edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

fugu

  1. (stative) to be hunched

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of fugu
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st tofugu fofugu mifugu
2nd nofugu nifugu
3rd Masculine ofugu ifugu, yofugu
Feminine mofugu
Neuter ifugu
- archaic

References edit

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Yogad edit

Noun edit

fugú

  1. island