tungko

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: tung‧ko

Verb

tungko

  1. to squat, to crouch
    Synonyms: gak-ang, iskwat, puk-ong, pungko, tuk-ong

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay tungku. Compare Javanese ꦠꦸꦁꦏꦸ (tungku).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /tuŋˈkoʔ/ [t̪ʊŋˈkoʔ]
  • Rhymes: -oʔ
  • Syllabification: tung‧ko

Noun

tungkô (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜅ᜔ᜃᜓ)

  1. a kind of native stove with a trivet or tripod stone base (to hold a pot or other cooking containers)
  2. tripod
    Synonym: tripode

Derived terms

  • tungkong kalan
  • tungkuan

See also

Further reading

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

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