fugu

See also: Fugu, fūgǔ, Fǔgǔ, fùgǔ, and fuĝu

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 河豚(ふぐ) (fugu, “blowfish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfuː.ɡuː/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

fugu (uncountable)

1. Blowfish: a delicacy popular in Japan served raw as sushi that may, if improperly prepared, contain deadly levels of neurotoxins.
   • 2016 August 5, Justin McCurry, “Last supper? Japan's diners divided over killer puffer fish”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Twenty minutes later, the chef has successfully prepared a whole fugu—or puffer fish—a Japanese delicacy whose capacity to maim and kill is dividing the country’s culinary world.

   • 2020 December 4, Ligaya Mishan, “The Appealing and Potentially Lethal Delicacy That Is Fugu”, in The New York Times Style Magazine‎^[2]:

     A sluggish swimmer, fugu has stunted fins and often flat-lying spikes instead of scales, and when confronted by predators it compensates for its lack of speed by swallowing enough water to swell up until its spikes stand on end, so it looks like an angry armored balloon.

Translations

blowfish — see blowfish

Aromanian

Verb

fugu first-singular present indicative

1. Alternative form of fug

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese fogo. Cognate with Kabuverdianu fogu.

Noun

fugu

1. fire

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch fugue, from French fugue, from Italian fuga (“flight, ardor”), from Latin fuga (“act of fleeing”), fugiō (“to flee”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈfuɡu/ [ˈfu.ɡu]
• Rhymes: -uɡu
• Syllabification: fu‧gu

Noun

fugu (plural fugu-fugu)

1. (neurology, psychiatry, psychology) fugue, fugue state: A rare psychiatric disorder characterized by reversible amnesia for personal identity, including the memories, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality

Further reading

• “fugu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Japanese

Romanization

fugu

1. Rōmaji transcription of ふぐ
2. Rōmaji transcription of フグ

Polish

fugu sense 1

fugu sense 2

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English fugu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfu.ɡu/
• Rhymes: -uɡu
• Syllabification: fu‧gu

Noun

fugu f (indeclinable)

2. spot-fin porcupinefish (Diodon hystrix)

   Synonyms: diodon, diodon jeżyk, jeżoryb, jeżówka, najeżka, rozdymka, rybojeż

4. fugu (delicacy popular in Japan served raw as sushi that may, if improperly prepared, contain deadly levels of neurotoxins)

Further reading

• fugu in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fugu in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 河豚(ふぐ) (fugu, “blowfish”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fuˈɡu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fuˈɡu/ [fuˈɣu]

• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: fu‧gu

Noun

fugu m (plural fugus)

1. fugu (blowfish, as a Japanese delicacy)

See also

• baiacu

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfu.ɡu]

Verb

fugu

1. (stative) to be hunched

Conjugation

Conjugation of fugu

		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		tofugu	fofugu	mifugu
2nd person		nofugu	nifugu
3rd person	masculine	ofugu	ifugu yofugu (archaic)
	feminine	mofugu
	neuter	ifugu

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Yogad

Noun

fugú

1. island