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Definition 2024
Sango
Sango
English
Alternative forms
Proper noun
Sango
- The primary language spoken in the Central African Republic: it has 5 million second-language speakers, but only 400,000 native speakers, mainly in the towns.
Translations
language
Anagrams
sango
sango
English
Pronunciation
- (Australia) IPA(key): /ˈsæŋəʊ/
- Rhymes: -æŋəʊ
Noun
sango (plural sangos or sangoes)
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
Noun
sango (plural sangos)
- (Britain) 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.
- 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,
Anagrams
Esperanto
Etymology
From Italian sangue, from Latin sanguis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsanɡo/
- IPA(key): /ˈsaŋɡo/ (considered by some to be incorrect)
- Hyphenation: san‧go
Noun
sango (uncountable, accusative sangon)
Derived terms
Ido
Etymology
From Esperanto sango, from French sang, Italian sangue, Spanish sangre, ultimately from Latin sanguis.
Noun
sango (uncountable)
Derived terms
- sangala (“sanguine”)
- sangoza (“bloody, sanguinary”)
- sangifar (“to bleed”)
- sangocirkulado (“blood circulation”)
- sangomorbo (“blood disease”)
- sangovarsar (“to shed blood”)