sagu

From Malay

sagu (uncountable)

1. Archaic form of sago.

• Suga, Gaus, gaus, USGA

First attested in the 13th century, from Proto-Basque *sagu.

The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.

• IPA^(key): /s̺aɡu/ [s̺a.ɣ̞u]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aɡu, -u
• Hyphenation: sa‧gu

sagu inan or anim

1. (animate) mouse (small rodent)
2. (inanimate, computing) mouse (input device)

• saguzar (“bat”)
• satitsu (“shrew”)
• satandre (“weasel”)
• satsuri
• sator (“mole”)

sagu

1. body fluid (of a corpse)

From Malay sagu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sagu (“processed sago; fluid oozing from a wound, infected sore, or corpse”).

• IPA^(key): /saˈɡu/
• Hyphenation: sa‧go

sagu (plural sagu-sagu)

1. sago:
   1. any of the plants from which sago is extracted
   2. a powdered starch obtained from certain palms, specifically Metroxylon sagu, used as a food thickener
   3. a powdered starch obtained from a palm-like cycad (Cycas revoluta)

• “sagu” 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.

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sagu (“processed sago, prepared starch from the sago palm”). Cognate with Javanese ꦱꦒꦸ (sagu) and Tagalog sago.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɡu/ [ˈsa.ɡu]
• Rhymes: -aɡu, -ɡu, -u
• Hyphenation: sa‧gu

sagu (Jawi spelling ساݢو, plural sagu-sagu)

1. sago (a powdered starch obtained from certain palms used as a food thickener)

• pokok sagu

• “sagu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*sagu₁”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

From Proto-Germanic *sagǭ, whence also Old Frisian sege, Old High German saga, Old Norse saga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑ.ɡu/, [ˈsɑ.ɣu]

sagu f (nominative plural sage or saga)

1. statement, discourse, report

Strong ō-stem:

• saga

• Middle English: sawe
  • English: saw

From Malay sagu.

• Hyphenation: sa‧gu
• Rhymes: -u

sagu m (plural sagus)

1. sago (a powdered starch obtained from certain palms and other plants)
2. sago (any species of plant from which sago is extracted)
3. sago pudding (a dessert made by boiling small grains of sago)
4. (Brazil) tapioca pearl

• sagum
• (palm tree): saguzeiro, sagueiro

• Hunsrik: Sagu
• →? Indo-Aryan: (or directly from Malay)
  • Assamese: চাগু (sagu), ছাগু (sagu)
  • Bengali: সাগু (śagu)
  • Hindustani:

    Hindi: सागू (sāgū)

    Urdu: ساگُو (sāgū)

  • Odia: ସାଗୁ (sāgu)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sagu (“processed sago; fluid oozing from a wound, infected sore, or corpse”).

sagu (Sundanese script ᮞᮌᮥ)

1. sago

• "SAGOE", in Coolsma, S (1913) Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij

Borrowed from French sagou.

sagu n (uncountable)

1. sago

• IPA^(key): [ˈsa.ɡu]

sagu

1. (transitive) to stab, spear

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Learned borrowing from Old Anatolian Turkish صاغو (saġu), further etymology unknown.

• sağu

• IPA^(key): /saˈɡu/
• Hyphenation: sa‧gu

sagu (definite accusative saguyu, plural sagular)

1. (literature, historical) a sort of elegy written by pre-Islamic Turkic people
2. (archaic) elegy, lament, requiem

   Synonym: ağıt

Borrowed from Malay sagu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ɡu/
• Hyphenation: sa‧gu

sagu (definite accusative saguyu, plural sagular)

1. sago

   Synonym: hint irmiği

• “sagu”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu