porongo
Portuguese
editEtymology
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- Hyphenation: po‧ron‧go
Noun
editporongo m (plural porongos)
- gourd (the dried and hardened shell of a gourd fruit)
- (Rio Grande do Sul) calabash (plant and fruit)
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed 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
editNoun
editporongo m (plural porongos)
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., , page 524b
Further reading
edit- “porongo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- pt:Gourd family plants
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- pt:Mate
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- Rhymes:Spanish/onɡo
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- es:Gourd family plants
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