dugong

See also: Dugong

English

Dugong with a young

Etymology

Borrowed from Cebuano dugong.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: doo͞ʹgŏng, IPA^(key): /ˈduɡɑŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dyoo͞ʹgŏng, IPA^(key): /ˈdjuːɡɒŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

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.”

Derived terms

• dugongine

 

Descendants

• Australian Kriol: jugong
• Torres Strait Creole: dugong
• → Finnish: dugongi
• → French: dugong
• → Indonesian: dugong
• → Italian: dugongo
• → Malay: dugong
• → Portuguese: dugongo
• → Welsh: dwgong
• → Japanese: 儒艮
• → Chinese: 儒艮 (rúgèn)

Translations

Dugong dugon

• Afrikaans: doegong, doejong
• Arabic: أَطُوم m (ʔaṭūm)
• Armenian: դյուգոն (dyugon)
• Bulgarian: дюгон m (djugon)
• Cebuano: dugong
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 儒艮 (zh) (rúgèn), 人魚／人鱼 (zh) (rényú)

• Danish: dygong c
• Dutch: doejong (nl) m, Indische zeekoe f
• Esperanto: dugongo (eo)
• Finnish: dugongi (fi)
• French: vache marine (fr) f, dugong (fr) m
• German: (strictly) Gabelschwanzseekuh f, Dugong (de) m; usually simply called Seekuh (de) f
• Gujarati: બાઈમાણસ (bāīmāṇas), સૂવરમચ્છી (sūvarmacchī), લૂલી (lūlī)
• Hawaiian: kūionoko
• Hebrew: תחש (he) (takhash)
• Hiligaynon: duyong
• Hungarian: dugong (hu), tengeritehén
• Ido: duyongo (io)
• Ilocano: duyong
• Indonesian: duyung (id), babi duyung (id), ikan duyung, dugong
• Italian: dugongo (it) m
• Japanese: ジュゴン (ja) (jugon)
• Javanese: ꦢꦸꦪꦸꦁ (duyung)
• Kala Lagaw Ya: dhangal
• Kayardild: bijarrba
• Khmer: ជ្រូកទឹក (cruuktɨk)
• Korean: 듀공 (dyugong)
• Malay:

  Jawi: دويوڠ, بابي دويوڠ, ايکن دويوڠ, دوݢوڠ

  Rumi: duyung (ms), babi duyung, ikan duyung, dugong

• Malayalam: കടൽപ്പശു (kaṭalppaśu)
• Meriam: deger
• Navajo: táłtłʼááh ayání
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dugong m

  Nynorsk: dugong m

• Polish: diugoń (pl) m
• Portuguese: dugongo m
• Romanian: dugong (ro) m
• Russian: дюго́нь (ru) m (djugónʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin: dugong (sh) m, moronj m

• Spanish: dugongo m
• Swahili: nguva
• Tagalog: dugong
• Tamil: ஆவுளியா (āvuḷiyā), கடல் பசு (kaṭal pacu)
• Thai: พะยูน (th) (pá-yuun)
• Tiwi: jimayi, yinjimayi, marntuwunyini, martuwunyini
• Uneapa: lui
• Vietnamese: cá cúi
• Welsh: dwgong m
• Wolof: leraw bi

See also

• manatee

Anagrams

• gun dog, gundog

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• dugung

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duyuŋ from Proto-Austronesian *duyuŋ.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: du‧gong

Noun

dugong

1. a dugong

Descendants

• → English: dugong
  • Australian Kriol: jugong
  • Torres Strait Creole: dugong
  • → Finnish: dugongi
  • → French: dugong
  • → Indonesian: dugong
  • → Italian: dugongo
  • → Malay: dugong
  • → Portuguese: dugongo
  • → Welsh: dwgong
  • → Japanese: 儒艮
  • → Chinese: 儒艮 (rúgèn)
• → Tagalog: dugong

French

Etymology

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dy.ɡɔ̃/, /dy.ɡɔ̃ɡ/

• Audio:

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Noun

dugong m (plural dugongs)

1. dugong

Further reading

• “dugong”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• duyung

Etymology

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈduɡɔŋ/
• Hyphenation: du‧gong
• Rhymes: -ɡɔŋ, -ɔŋ, -ŋ

Noun

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

1. dugong (Dugong dugon)

Synonyms

• babi duyung
• ikan duyung

Further reading

• “dugong” 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.

Malay

Etymology

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong. Doublet of duyung.

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /duɡoŋ/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /duɡʊŋ/
• Rhymes: -uɡoŋ, -ɡoŋ, -oŋ

Noun

dugong (Jawi spelling دوݢوڠ, plural dugong-dugong, informal 1st possessive dugongku, 2nd possessive dugongmu, 3rd possessive dugongnya)

1. Alternative form of duyung

Further reading

• “dugong” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

Noun

dugong m (definite singular dugongen, indefinite plural dugonger, definite plural dugongene)

1. a dugong

References

• “dugong” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

Noun

dugong m (definite singular dugongen, indefinite plural dugongar, definite plural dugongane)

1. a dugong

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Cebuano dugong, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duyuŋ (“sea cow; dugong”). Doublet of duyong.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈduɡoŋ/ [ˈd̪uː.ɣoŋ]
• Rhymes: -uɡoŋ
• Syllabification: du‧gong

Noun

dugong (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜄᜓᜅ᜔)

1. dugong

   Synonym: duyong

Further reading

• “dugong”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English dugong, from Cebuano dugong.

Noun

dugong

1. dugong, Dugong dugon

Synonyms

• dhangal (western dialect)