sango

See also: Sango and ŝanĝo

English

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of sandwich (pronounced "sangwich") + -o (colloquialising suffix). Australian from 1940s.

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈsæŋəʊ/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -æŋəʊ

Noun

sango (plural sangos or sangoes)

1. (dated, Australia, informal, colloquial) A sandwich. [From 1940s.]

Usage notes

Now more common is sanger.

Synonyms

• (Australia, Ireland, informal) sambo
• (Australia, informal) sammie, sammo, sanger
• (UK, informal) sarnie

References

• Macquarie Slang Dictionary lists sanger, with sango under “also”.

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

sango (plural sangos)

1. (UK) A rudimentary wooden bridge in India.
   • 1824, Alexander Gerard, Journal of an Excursion through the Himalayah Mountains, from Shipke to the Frontiers of Chinese Tartary, David Brewster (editor), The Edinburgh Journal of Science, Volume 1: April—October, page 219,

     We crossed it and another stream a little above their union by a couple of bad sangos, and ascended from its bed by a rocky footpath, winding amongst extensive forests of oak, yew, pine, and horse chesnut, to Camp.

   • 1865, Henry Astbury Leveson, The Hunting Grounds of the Old World, page 459,

     Four large mountain torrents, the Dangalee, Dubrane, Loarnad, and Rindee Gadh, join the Ganges from the left bank, and have to be crossed by sangos.

Anagrams

• Ganos, Gaons, Goans, Nogas, agons, gaons, gosan

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Bikol Central

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sa‧ngo
• IPA^(key): /ˈsaŋo/

Noun

sango

1. odor; smell; whiff

   Synonyms: parong, amyo

Verb

sango

1. to smell, sniff any odor

   Synonym: parong

Derived terms

• magsango
• sangohan

 

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Esperanto

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from French sang, from Latin sanguī̆s. Compare Portuguese and Italian sangue, Spanish sangre, Romanian sânge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsanɡo]
• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -anɡo
• Hyphenation: san‧go

Noun

sango (uncountable, accusative sangon)

1. blood

   Ĝi estis terura vidaĵo; sango kovris la tutan muron.

   It was a terrible sight; blood covered the entire wall.

Derived terms

• sangavida
• sangi
• sangosoifanta
• sangotransfuzo

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French

Pronunciation

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Noun

sango m (plural sangos)

1. Sango

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Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto sango, from French sang, Italian sangue, Spanish sangre, ultimately from Latin sanguis.

Noun

sango (uncountable)

1. blood

Derived terms

• sangala (“sanguine”)
• sangoza (“bloody, sanguinary”)
• sangifar (“to bleed”)
• sangocirkulado (“blood circulation”)
• sangomorbo (“blood disease”)
• sangovarsar (“to shed blood”)

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Japanese

Romanization

sango

1. Rōmaji transcription of さんご

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Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ŋo/

Verb

sango (Jawi ساڠو‎)

1. (intransitive) to answer, reply

   Synonym: fadu

Conjugation

Conjugation of sango
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	tosango	fosango	misango
2nd	nosango	nisango
3rd	Human	osangom, mosangof	isango, yosango†
Non-human	isango	isango, yasango†
* m - masculine, f - feminine, † - archaic

References

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

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West Makian

Etymology

Cognate with, if not from, Ternate sango.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈs̪a.ŋo/

Verb

sango

1. (intransitive) to answer

Conjugation

Conjugation of sango (action verb)
		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		tasango	masango	asango
2nd person		nasango	fasango
3rd person	inanimate	isango	dasango
	animate
imperative		nasango, sango	fasango, sango

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics