bungo

See also: buŋo

English

Etymology 1

The transliteration of Japanese 文語 (ぶんご, bungo) "writing language".

Alternative forms
  • Bungo

Noun

bungo (uncountable)

  1. A Japanese written language established mainly during the Heian period, circa 900–1200 CE, and commonly used until circa 1900.
Synonyms

Noun

bungo (plural bungos or bungoes)

  1. A kind of canoe used in Central America and South America.
  2. A kind of boat used in the southern United States. (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)
  3. A large sailboat once used in Mexico.[1]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bungo in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

References
  1. John Lloyd Stephens (1841): Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan: Illustrated by Numerous Engravings, volume 2. Published by Harper& Brothers. Page 383

Asi

Noun

bungô

  1. (anatomy) skull

Bikol Central

Noun

bungô

  1. (anatomy) skull

Cebuano

Etymology

Related to / from Tagalog bungo (“skull”) and other Luzon languages

Noun

bungó

  1. the skull, in its senses as
    1. (anatomy) the human skull
    2. (zoology) the analogous part in animals who possess this feature

Synonyms

Japanese

Romanization

bungo

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ぶんご

Tagalog

Noun

bungô

  1. (anatomy) skull
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