porongo

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• poronga

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish porongo.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /poˈɾõ.ɡu/

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /puˈɾõ.ɡu/

• Rhymes: -õɡu
• Hyphenation: po‧ron‧go

Noun

porongo m (plural porongos)

1. gourd (the dried and hardened shell of a gourd fruit)

   Synonyms: cabaça, cuia

2. (Rio Grande do Sul) calabash (plant and fruit)

Descendants

• → Hunsrik: Prunkel

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Quechua purunku (“calabash, plant and fruit and vessel of the calabash vine”), itself probably an ancient wanderwort from the South Sea for an inedible variety of calabash vine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /poˈɾonɡo/ [poˈɾõŋ.ɡo]

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• Rhymes: -onɡo
• Syllabification: po‧ron‧go

Noun

porongo m (plural porongos)

1. calabash

References

• Friederici, Georg (1960) Amerikanistisches Wörterbuch und Hilfswörterbuch für den Amerikanisten. Deutsch-Spanisch-Englisch (Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiet der Auslandskunde / Reihe B: Völkerkunde, Kulturgeschichte und Sprachen; 53), 2nd edition, Hamburg: Cram, De Gruyter & Co., →DOI, page 524b

Further reading

• “porongo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28