sago
English
Etymology
From Malay sagu, via Portuguese or Dutch[1].
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪɡəʊ
Noun
sago (countable and uncountable, plural sagos or sagoes)
- A powdered starch obtained from certain palms and used as a food thickener.
- A similar starch obtained from a palm-like cycad (Cycas revoluta)
- Any of the palms from which sago is extracted.
Derived terms
- Portland sago
- sago pudding
- sago spleen
Translations
a powdered starch obtained from certain palms and used as a food thickener
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any of the palms from which sago is extracted
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See also
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “sago”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: sa‧go
Noun
sago m (uncountable)
- A powdered starch obtained from certain palms used as a food thickener.
- Any of the palms from which sago is extracted.
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈsaɡo]
- Rhymes: -aɡo
- Hyphenation: sa‧go
Hausa
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsa.ɡo/
- Rhymes: -aɡo
- Hyphenation: sà‧go
Adjective
sago (feminine saga, masculine plural saghi, feminine plural saghe)
- (archaic, literary) divining, prophetic, soothsaying
Related terms
Latin
References
- sago in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Portuguese
Romanian
Declension
declension of sago (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) sago | sagoul |
genitive/dative | (unui) sago | sagoului |
vocative | sagoule |
Tagalog
Etymology 1
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sagu (“processed sago, prepared starch from the sago palm”). Compare Bikol Central sago, Cebuano sago, Javanese sagu, and Malay sagu.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sa‧go
- IPA(key): /saˈɡo/, [sɐˈɣo]
Noun
sagó
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sa‧go
- IPA(key): /ˈsaɡo/, [ˈsa.ɣo]
Noun
sago
Derived terms
- saguhan
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