sango

See also: Sango, Sängö, Ṣango, and ŝanĝo

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (General Australian):

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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

Bangi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *cángʊ́.

Noun

sango

1. father

Bikol Central

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *saŋu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaŋo/ [ˈsa.ŋo]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: sa‧ngo

Noun

sángo (Basahan spelling ᜐᜅᜓ)

1. odor; smell; whiff

   Synonyms: parong, amyo

Derived terms

• magsango
• sangohan

Esperanto

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sango

Wikipedia ^eo

Etymology

From French sang and Italian sangue, from Latin sanguī̆s.

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

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

sango m (plural sangos)

1. Sango

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

Japanese

Romanization

sango

1. Rōmaji transcription of さんご

Lingala

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Bangi sango.

Noun

sango

1. father
2. priest

Etymology 2

See Lingala nsango.

Noun

sango

1. news

Neapolitan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin sanguem.

Pronunciation

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈsaŋɡə]
• (Castelmezzano) IPA^(key): [ˈsaŋk]

Noun

sango m (plural sanghe)

1. blood

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 88: “il sangue” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Rocco, Emmanuele (1882), “sango”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano‎

Ternate

Etymology

Cognate with Sahu sangoro.

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 person		tosango	fosango	misango
2nd person		nosango	nisango
3rd person	masculine	osango	isango yosango (archaic)
	feminine	mosango
	neuter	isango

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

West Makian

Etymology

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, Pacific linguistics