purunggo

Tagalog

Alternative forms

  • prungo, purungo — obsolete
  • prunggo
  • puronggo

Etymology

Etymology tree
Quechua purunkubor.
Spanish porongobor.?
Tagalog purunggo

    Possibly from Spanish porongo (“calabash; dried gourd container; large earthenware jar”), 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.

    Pronunciation

    • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /puɾuŋˈɡoʔ/ [pʊ.ɾʊŋˈɡoʔ]
    • Rhymes: -oʔ
    • Syllabification: pu‧rung‧go

    Noun

    purunggô (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜇᜓᜅ᜔ᜄᜓ)

    1. round short-necked bottle or earthen jug
    2. (dialectal, Cavite, Batangas) broken shards of glass or crystals
      Synonym: bubog

    Further reading

    • “purunggo”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
    • “purunggo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
    • Serrano Laktaw, Pedro (1914), Diccionario tagálog-hispano (overall work in Tagalog and Spanish), Intramuros, Manila: Ateneo de Manila., page 1099
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