bakong

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Malay

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Noun

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bakong

  1. (dialectal, Sambas) water hyacinth

Maranao

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bakuŋ, from Proto-Austronesian *bakuŋ.

Noun

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bakong

  1. (botany) a plant with a white flower, used as a medicine for stomach ache (Crinum asiaticum)

References

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  • Howard P. McKaughan, Batua A. Macaraya (1967) A Maranao Dictionary[1] (overall work in Maranao and English), University of Hawaii Press

Tagalog

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bakuŋ, from Proto-Austronesian *bakuŋ.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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bakong (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜃᜓᜅ᜔) (botany)

  1. spider lily (Crinum asiaticum)

Further reading

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  • bakong”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • bakong”, in Pinoy Dictionary, 2010–2024
  • Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*bakuŋ”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

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