purunggo

Tagalog

Alternative forms

  • prungo, purungo — obsolete
  • prunggo
  • puronggo

Etymology

Possibly from Spanish porongo (“calabash; dried gourd container; large earthenware jar”), 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

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /puɾuŋˈɡoʔ/ [pʊ.ɾʊŋˈɡoʔ]
  • Rhymes: -oʔ
  • Syllabification: pu‧rung‧go

Noun

purunggô (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜇᜓᜅ᜔ᜄᜓ)

  1. round short-necked bottle or earthen jug
  2. (dialectal, Cavite, Batangas) broken shards of glass or crystals
    Synonym: bubog

Further reading

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