guro

Reborrowed from Japanese グロ (guro), from English grotesque.

guro (uncountable)

1. A subgenre of manga and anime focusing on gore and mutilation.

   Hypernym: gore

   • 2009, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Do Androids Sleep with Electric Sheep?: Critical Perspectives on Sexuality and Pornography in Science and Social Fiction:

     And maybe the Moravecian dream would be especially exciting for fans of guro manga who want to live out all the fantasies to have sex like the immortal Mai in Waita Uziga's Mai-chan's Daily Life, who stay alive even after being violently mutilated […]

   • 2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, Animation & Cartoons:

     The scope of hentai encompasses the entire range of sexual fetishes, including […] Guro, focusing on imaginative gore and mutilation.

• ero-guro
• gorn

• gour

Borrowed from Japanese グロ (guro), グロテスク (gurotesuku, “grotesque”), from English grotesque.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡuro/ [ˈɡu.ro]
• Rhymes: -uro
• Syllabification: gu‧ro

guro (uncountable)

1. guro

• “guro” 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.

guro

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぐろ
2. Rōmaji transcription of グロ

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡuro]

guro f

1. vocative singular of gură

Learned borrowing from Malay guru (“teacher; educator”), ultimately from Sanskrit गुरु (gurú). Reintroduced by by Eusebio T. Daluz in the early 20^th century as a replacement to the previously used words maestro and maestra, both of Spanish origin. Doublet of gulo, another term from Malay guru, that became obsolete in the course of the 19^th century. Compare English guru.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɡuɾoʔ/ [ˈɡuː.ɾoʔ], /ɡuˈɾoʔ/ [ɡʊˈɾoʔ]
• Rhymes: -uɾoʔ, -oʔ
• Syllabification: gu‧ro

gurò or gurô (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜇᜓ) (education)

1. teacher; educator; instructor

   Synonyms: maestro, maestra, titser, tagapagturo, edukador, pedagogo

• Jean-Paul G. POTET (2016) Seventeenth-Century Events at Liliw‎^[1], Jean-Paul G. POTET, page 42
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 283
• Santos, Lope K. (1938) Sources and Means for Further Enrichment of Tagalog as Our National Language‎^[2], University of the Philippines
• Daluz, Eusebio T. (1915) Filipino-English vocabulary: with practical example of Filipino and English grammars, Manila: Akademya ng Wikang Filipino, page 5.