dugong

See also: Dugong

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Austronesian *duyuŋ

Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duyuŋ

Cebuano dugongbor.

English dugong

Borrowed from Cebuano dugong.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: doo͞ʹgŏng, IPA^(key): /ˈduɡɑŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dyoo͞ʹgŏng, IPA^(key): /ˈdjuːɡɒŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

dugong (plural dugongs)

2. A plant-eating aquatic marine mammal, of the species Dugong dugon, found in tropical regions.

   Hypernyms: dugongid, dugong (dugongid sense), sea cow, sirenian < marine mammal < mammal < vertebrate < animal < organism < creature

   Coordinate terms: (fellow sea cow) manatee; (fellow marine mammals) pinniped, walrus, seal

   • 1914, Marcus W. Millett, Jungle Sport in Ceylon from Elephant to Snipe, page 84:

     The Ceylong dugong is an extraordinary and interesting animal which is often seen on the coast. It is plentiful in and about the Gulf of Manaar, and resembles somewhat a huge, thickly-made, bluff-headed seal.

   • 1988, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, William Heinemann Ltd, page 37:

     “What are those things that aren’t seals? Much worse than seals. Big, blubbery things. Dugongs.”

4. Any animal of the family Dugongidae, of which the monotypic genus Dugong is the only extant kind.

   Synonym: dugongid

   Hypernyms: sea cow, sirenian < marine mammal < mammal < vertebrate < animal < organism < creature

   Hyponym: dugong (Dugong dugong sense)

   Coordinate terms: (fellow sea cow) manatee; (fellow marine mammals) pinniped, walrus, seal

Derived terms

• dugongine (adjective)

Descendants

• Australian Kriol: jugong
• Torres Strait Creole: dugong
• → Finnish: dugongi
• → French: dugong
• → Indonesian: dugong
• → Italian: dugongo
• → Malay: dugong
• → Portuguese: dugongo
• → Welsh: dwgong
• → Japanese: 儒艮
  • → Chinese: 儒艮 (rúgèn)

Translations

Dugong dugon

• Afrikaans: doegong, doejong
• Arabic: أَطُوم m (ʔaṭūm)
• Armenian: դյուգոն (dyugon)
• Bulgarian: дюгон m (djugon)
• Cebuano: dugong
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 儒艮 (zh) (rúgèn), 人魚 / 人鱼 (zh) (rényú)

• Danish: dygong c
• Dutch: doejong (nl) m, Indische zeekoe f
• Esperanto: dugongo (eo)
• Finnish: dugongi (fi)
• French: vache marine (fr) f, dugong (fr) m
• German: (strictly) Gabelschwanzseekuh f, Dugong (de) m; usually simply called Seekuh (de) f
• Greek: ντιγκόνγκ n (ntigkóngk), ντουγκόνγκ n (ntougkóngk)
• Gujarati: બાઈમાણસ (bāīmāṇas), સૂવરમચ્છી (sūvarmacchī), લૂલી (lūlī)
• Hawaiian: kūionoko
• Hebrew: תחש (he) (takhash)
• Hiligaynon: duyong
• Hungarian: dugong (hu), tengeritehén
• Ido: duyongo (io)
• Ilocano: duyong
• Indonesian: duyung (id), babi duyung (id), ikan duyung, dugong
• Italian: dugongo (it) m
• Japanese: ジュゴン (ja) (jugon)
• Javanese: ꦢꦸꦪꦸꦁ (duyung)
• Kala Lagaw Ya: dhangal
• Kayardild: bijarrba
• Khmer: ជ្រូកទឹក (cruuktɨk)
• Korean: 듀공 (dyugong)
• Malay:

  Jawi: دويوڠ, بابي دويوڠ, ايکن دويوڠ, دوݢوڠ

  Rumi: duyung (ms), babi duyung, ikan duyung, dugong

• Malayalam: കടൽപ്പശു (kaṭalppaśu), കടലാവ് (kaṭalāvŭ)
• Meriam: deger
• Navajo: táłtłʼááh ayání
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dugong m

  Nynorsk: dugong m

• Polish: diugoń (pl) m
• Portuguese: dugongo m
• Romanian: dugong (ro) m
• Russian: дюго́нь (ru) m (djugónʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin: dugong (sh) m, moronj m

• Spanish: dugongo m
• Swahili: nguva (sw)
• Tagalog: dugong
• Tamil: ஆவுளியா (āvuḷiyā), கடல் பசு (kaṭal pacu)
• Thai: พะยูน (th) (pá-yuun)
• Tiwi: jimayi, yinjimayi, marntuwunyini, martuwunyini
• Turkish: dugong
• Uneapa: lui
• Vietnamese: cá cúi
• Welsh: dwgong m
• Wolof: leraw bi

See also

• manatee

Anagrams

• gun dog, gundog

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• dugung

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duyuŋ from Proto-Austronesian *duyuŋ.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: du‧gong

Noun

dugong

1. a dugong

Descendants

• → English: dugong
  • Australian Kriol: jugong
  • Torres Strait Creole: dugong
  • → Finnish: dugongi
  • → French: dugong
  • → Indonesian: dugong
  • → Italian: dugongo
  • → Malay: dugong
  • → Portuguese: dugongo
  • → Welsh: dwgong
  • → Japanese: 儒艮
    • → Chinese: 儒艮 (rúgèn)
• → Tagalog: dugong

French

Etymology

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dy.ɡɔ̃/, /dy.ɡɔ̃ɡ/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

dugong m (plural dugongs)

1. dugong

Further reading

• “dugong”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• duyung

Etymology

From Malay dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈduɡɔŋ/
• Hyphenation: du‧gong
• Rhymes: -ɡɔŋ, -ɔŋ, -ŋ

Noun

dugong (plural dugong-dugong)

1. dugong (Dugong dugon)

   Synonyms: babi duyung, ikan duyung

Further reading

• “dugong”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Malay

Etymology

From Cebuano dugong. Doublet of duyung.

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /duɡoŋ/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /duɡʊŋ/
• Rhymes: -uɡoŋ, -ɡoŋ, -oŋ

Noun

dugong (Jawi spelling دوݢوڠ, plural dugong-dugong or dugong²)

1. alternative form of duyung

Further reading

• "dugong" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

Noun

dugong m (definite singular dugongen, indefinite plural dugonger, definite plural dugongene)

1. a dugong

References

• “dugong” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

Noun

dugong m (definite singular dugongen, indefinite plural dugongar, definite plural dugongane)

1. a dugong

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Cebuano dugong, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duyuŋ (“sea cow; dugong”). Doublet of duyong.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈduɡoŋ/ [ˈd̪uː.ɣoŋ]
• Rhymes: -uɡoŋ
• Syllabification: du‧gong

Noun

dugong (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜄᜓᜅ᜔)

1. dugong

   Synonym: duyong

Further reading

• “dugong”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

Noun

dugong

1. dugong, Dugong dugon

Synonyms

• dhangal (western dialect)