porongo

From Spanish porongo.

• Hyphenation: po‧ron‧go

porongo m (plural porongos)

1. gourd (the dried and hardened shell of a gourd fruit)

   Synonyms: cabaça, cuia

2. (Rio Grande do Sul) calabash (plant and fruit)

Borrowed from Quechua purunku (“calabash, plant and fruit and vessel of the calabash vine”), itself probably an ancient wanderwort from the South Sea for an inedible variety of calabash vine.

• IPA^(key): /poˈɾonɡo/ [poˈɾõŋ.ɡo]
• (Peruvian)

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• Rhymes: -onɡo
• Syllabification: po‧ron‧go

porongo m (plural porongos)

1. calabash

• Friederici, Georg (1960) Amerikanistisches Wörterbuch und Hilfswörterbuch für den Amerikanisten. Deutsch-Spanisch-Englisch (Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiet der Auslandskunde / Reihe B: Völkerkunde, Kulturgeschichte und Sprachen; 53), 2nd edition, Hamburg: Cram, De Gruyter & Co., →DOI, page 524b

• “porongo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014