dugong

Borrowed from Cebuano dugong.

• (General American) enPR: doo͞ʹgŏng, IPA^(key): /ˈduɡɑŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dyoo͞ʹgŏng, IPA^(key): /ˈdjuːɡɒŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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dugong (plural dugongs)

1. A plant-eating aquatic marine mammal, of the species Dugong dugon, found in tropical regions.

   Synonyms: sea cow, sea pig

   • 1914, Marcus W. Millett, Jungle Sport in Ceylon from Elephant to Snipe, page 84:

     The Ceylong dugong is an extraordinary and interesting animal which is often seen on the coast. It is plentiful in and about the Gulf of Manaar, and resembles somewhat a huge, thickly-made, bluff-headed seal.

   • 1988, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, William Heinemann Ltd, page 37:

     “What are those things that aren’t seals? Much worse than seals. Big, blubbery things. Dugongs.”

• Australian Kriol: jugong
• Torres Strait Creole: dugong
• → Finnish: dugongi
• → French: dugong
• → Indonesian: dugong
• → Italian: dugongo
• → Malay: dugong
• → Portuguese: dugongo
• → Welsh: dwgong
• → Japanese: 儒艮
• → Chinese: 儒艮 (rúgèn)

• manatee

• gun dog, gundog

• dugung

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duyuŋ from Proto-Austronesian *duyuŋ.

• Hyphenation: du‧gong

dugong

1. a dugong

• → English: dugong
  • Australian Kriol: jugong
  • Torres Strait Creole: dugong
  • → Finnish: dugongi
  • → French: dugong
  • → Indonesian: dugong
  • → Italian: dugongo
  • → Malay: dugong
  • → Portuguese: dugongo
  • → Welsh: dwgong
  • → Japanese: 儒艮
  • → Chinese: 儒艮 (rúgèn)
• → Tagalog: dugong

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

• IPA^(key): /dy.ɡɔ̃/, /dy.ɡɔ̃ɡ/

• Audio:

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dugong m (plural dugongs)

1. dugong

• “dugong”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• duyung

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

• IPA^(key): /ˈduɡɔŋ/
• Hyphenation: du‧gong
• Rhymes: -ɡɔŋ, -ɔŋ, -ŋ

dugong (plural dugong-dugong)

1. dugong (Dugong dugon)

   Synonyms: babi duyung, ikan duyung

• “dugong” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong. Doublet of duyung.

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /duɡoŋ/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /duɡʊŋ/
• Rhymes: -uɡoŋ, -ɡoŋ, -oŋ

dugong (Jawi spelling دوݢوڠ, plural dugong-dugong)

1. alternative form of duyung

• “dugong” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

dugong m (definite singular dugongen, indefinite plural dugonger, definite plural dugongene)

1. a dugong

• “dugong” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

dugong m (definite singular dugongen, indefinite plural dugongar, definite plural dugongane)

1. a dugong

Borrowed from Cebuano dugong, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duyuŋ (“sea cow; dugong”). Doublet of duyong.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈduɡoŋ/ [ˈd̪uː.ɣoŋ]
• Rhymes: -uɡoŋ
• Syllabification: du‧gong

dugong (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜄᜓᜅ᜔)

1. dugong

   Synonym: duyong

• “dugong”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

dugong

1. dugong, Dugong dugon

• dhangal (western dialect)