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alimango

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Cebuano

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qali-maŋu.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʔaliˈmaŋo/ [ʔɐ.l̪ɪˈma.ŋo]
  • Hyphenation: a‧li‧ma‧ngo

Noun

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alimango

  1. giant mud crab (Scylla serrata)

Hanunoo

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qali-maŋu.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʔaliˈmaŋu/ [ʔa.liˈmɐ.ŋo]
  • Rhymes: -aŋu
  • Syllabification: a‧li‧ma‧ngo

Noun

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alimango (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜮᜲᜫᜥᜳ) (zoology)

  1. blue swimmer crab (Portunus armatus)

See also

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Further reading

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  • Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 25
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qali-maŋu”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Masbatenyo

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qali-maŋu.

Noun

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alimango

  1. large crab

Tagalog

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qali-maŋu. Compare Cebuano alimango, Hiligaynon alimango, and Yami alimango.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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alimango (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜒᜋᜅᜓ)

  1. (loosely) crab
    Synonyms: kangreho, (Mogpog Marinduque) butot
  2. (strictly) giant mud crab (Scylla serrata, a species of large black crab)

Derived terms

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Adjective

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alimango (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜒᜋᜅᜓ)

  1. (astronomy, figurative, obsolete) gibbous (of the moon)
    Alimango ang buwan.
    The moon is gibbous.
    (literally, “The moon is crab-shaped.”)

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Anagrams

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Waray-Waray

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qali-maŋu.

Noun

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alimango

  1. crab

Yami

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qali-maŋu.

Noun

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alimango

  1. a kind of crab