porongo

Portuguese

Etymology

From Spanish porongo.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /poˈɾõ.ɡu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /poˈɾõ.ɡu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /poˈɾõ.ɡo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /puˈɾõ.ɡu/

• Hyphenation: po‧ron‧go

Noun

porongo m (plural porongos)

1. gourd (the dried and hardened shell of a gourd fruit)

   Synonyms: cabaça, cuia

2. (Rio Grande do Sul) calabash (plant and fruit)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed 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

• IPA^(key): /poˈɾonɡo/ [poˈɾõŋ.ɡo]

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• Rhymes: -onɡo
• Syllabification: po‧ron‧go

Noun

porongo m (plural porongos)

1. calabash

References

• 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., →DOI, page 524b

Further reading

• “porongo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014