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 genus Dugong, found in tropical regions.

   Synonyms: sea cow, sea pig

   • 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.”

• → Finnish: dugongi
• → French: dugong
• → Indonesian: dugong
• → Italian: dugongo
• → Malay: dugong
• → Portuguese: dugongo
• Torres Strait Creole: dugong

• manatee

• gun dog, gundog

• dugung

• Hyphenation: du‧gong

dugong

1. a dugong

• → English: dugong
  • → Finnish: dugongi
  • → French: dugong
  • → Indonesian: dugong
  • → Italian: dugongo
  • → Malay: dugong
  • → Portuguese: dugongo
  • Torres Strait Creole: dugong

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

• IPA^(key): /dy.ɡɔ̃ɡ/, /dy.ɡɔ̃/

• 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 (first-person possessive dugongku, second-person possessive dugongmu, third-person possessive dugongnya)

1. dugong (Dugong dugon)

• babi duyung
• ikan duyung

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

• duyung / دويوڠ‎

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, informal 1st possessive dugongku, 2nd possessive dugongmu, 3rd possessive dugongnya)

1. dugong (Dugong dugon)

• babi duyung / بابي دويوڠ‎
• ikan duyung / ايکن دويوڠ‎

• “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

From Cebuano dugong.

• Hyphenation: du‧gong
• IPA^(key): /ˈduɡoŋ/, [ˈdu.ɣoŋ]

dugong

1. dugong

   Synonym: duyong

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

dugong

1. dugong, Dugong dugon

• dhangal (western dialect)