sago

See also: Sago, sågo, and saĝo

English

Etymology

From Malay sagu, via Portuguese or Dutch.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪɡəʊ

Noun

sago (countable and uncountable, plural sagos or sagoes)

1. A powdered starch obtained from certain palms used as a food thickener.
2. A similar starch obtained from a palm-like cycad (Cycas revoluta)
3. Any of the palms from which sago is extracted.

Derived terms

• Portland sago
• sago pudding
• sago spleen

Translations

a powdered starch obtained from certain palms used as a food thickener

• Armenian: սագո (hy) (sago)
• Bulgarian: палмово нишесте n (palmovo nišeste)
• Burmese: သာဂူ (my) (sagu)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 西米 (sai¹ mai⁵)

  Mandarin: 西米 (zh) (ximǐ), 西谷米 (xīgúmǐ)

• Czech: ságo (cs) n
• Dutch: sago (nl) m
• Finnish: saago (fi)
• French: sagou (fr) m
• German: Sago (de) m
• Hungarian: szágó, szágóliszt
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• Ido: saguto (io)
• Imonda: es
• Italian: sagù m
• Japanese: サゴ澱粉 (sago denpun)
• Malay: sagu (ms), ambuyat (ms)
• Maori: hēko
• Mon: သာဂူ
• Portuguese: sagu (pt) m
• Russian: са́го (ru) n (ságo)
• Shan: ႀႃႇၵူႇ (xàa kùu), သႃႇၵူႇ (sàa kùu)
• Spanish: sagú m
• Thai: สาคู (th)
• Tok Pisin: saksak
• West Coast Bajau: mbuung

any of the palms from which sago is extracted

• Bulgarian: сагова палма f (sagova palma)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: ságovník m
• Dutch: sago (nl) m
• Finnish: saagopalmu (fi)
• French: sagoutier (fr) m
• German: Sago (de) m
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• Hungarian: szágó, szágópálma (hu)
• Ido: sagutiero (io)
• Indonesian: sagu (id)
• Japanese: サゴヤシ (sago-yashi)
• Malay: rumbia, pokok sagu
• Russian: са́говая па́льма f (ságovaja pálʹma)
• Spanish: sagú m
• Tok Pisin: saksak

See also

• sago palm

Anagrams

• AOGs, Gaos, Gosa, goas

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Dutch

Etymology

Malay sagu

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: sa‧go

Noun

sago m (uncountable)

1. A powdered starch obtained from certain palms used as a food thickener.
2. Any of the palms from which sago is extracted.

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Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin sagitta. Doublet of Sagitario.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsaɡo]
• Rhymes: -aɡo
• Hyphenation: sa‧go

Noun

sago (accusative singular sagon, plural sagoj, accusative plural sagojn)

1. arrow
2. (darts) dart

Derived terms

• sageto (“dart”)
• sagi (“to dart”)
• sagisto (“archer”)
• sagujo (“quiver”)

 

Synonyms

• (dart): sageto, pikilo

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Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sá.ɡóː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [sə́.ɡʷóː]

Noun

sagō m (possessed form sagon)

1. snake

   Synonym: macī̀jī

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -aɡo
• Hyphenation: sà‧go

Etymology 1

From Latin sāgus.

Adjective

sago (feminine saga, masculine plural saghi, feminine plural saghe)

1. (archaic, literary) divining, prophetic, soothsaying

   Synonyms: presago, profetico

Related terms

• saga

Etymology 2

From Latin sagum, sagus, from Ancient Greek σάγος (ságos), perhaps of Gaulish origin.

Noun

sago m (plural saghi)

1. (Ancient Rome) sagum, a military cloak
2. (literary) Synonym of saio

Anagrams

• gaso, gasò, soga

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Japanese

Romanization

sago

1. Rōmaji transcription of さご
2. Rōmaji transcription of サゴ

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) sāgō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of sāgus

Noun

(deprecated template usage) sagō m

1. singular dative/ablative of sagus

Noun

(deprecated template usage) sagō n

1. singular dative/ablative of sagum

References

• sago in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ɡu/

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ɡu/ [ˈsa.ɣu]

Noun

sago m (plural sagos)

1. (historical) sagum (cloak worn by Gallic, Germanic and Roman soldiers)

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Romanian

Etymology

From French sagou.

Noun

sago n (uncountable)

1. sago

Declension

declension of sago (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) sago	sagoul
genitive/dative	(unui) sago	sagoului
vocative	sagoule

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Tagalog

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sagu (“processed sago, prepared starch from the sago palm”). Compare Bikol Central sago, Cebuano sago, Javanese sagu, and Malay sagu.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sa‧go
• IPA^(key): /saˈɡo/, [sɐˈɣo]

Noun

sagó

1. sago palm (Metroxylon sagu)
2. sago starch
3. pearl sago
4. (by extension, colloquial) tapioca pearl

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sa‧go
• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɡo/, [ˈsaː.ɣo]

Noun

sago

1. oozing fluid (from a wound, boil, rotting meat or fish, etc.)

   Synonyms: kayat, tagas, daloy

2. oozing; slow flow

   Synonyms: tagas, daloy, kayat, pagtagas, pagdaloy, pagkayat

Derived terms

• saguhan