bungo

Borrowed from Japanese 文(ぶん)語(ご) (bungo, “writing language”).

• Bungo

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʊŋɡəʊ/
• Hyphenation: bun‧go

bungo (uncountable)

1. A Japanese written language established mainly during the Heian period, circa 900–1200 C.E., and commonly used until circa 1900.

• Classical Japanese

Borrowed from Spanish bongo (“large canoe”).

bungo (plural bungos or bungoes)

1. A kind of large canoe used in the southern United States, Central America, and South America.
   • 1828, an officer of the Colombian Navy, Recollections of a Service of Three Years During the War-of-Extermination:

     On the third day a bungo passed us, coming down the river from New Grenada, with a cargo and passengers to Santa Martha and the parts adjacent

   • 2005, William Harwar Parker, Recollections of a Confederate Naval Officer, Digital Antiquaria, →ISBN, page 159:

     He and a number of others bought a bungo (a large canoe), and in it actually started for San Francisco, a distance of more than three thousand miles. The party chose for leader one Chris. Lilly, a pugilist, […]

2. A large sailboat once used in Mexico.^[1]

• “bungo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *buŋuq.

bungô

1. (anatomy) skull

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *buŋuq.

• IPA^(key): /buˈŋoʔ/ [buˈŋoʔ]
• Hyphenation: bu‧ngo

bungô (Basahan spelling ᜊᜓᜅᜓ) (anatomy)

1. skull
2. skeleton

   Synonym: kalabera

bungo

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぶんご

• bong̃o, bung̃o — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *buŋuq.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /buˈŋoʔ/ [bʊˈŋoʔ]
• Rhymes: -oʔ
• Syllabification: bu‧ngo

bungô (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜅᜓ) (anatomy)

1. skull

• “bungo”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “bungo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018