purunggo

== Tagalog == === Alternative forms === prungo, purungo — obsolete prunggo puronggo === Etymology === 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) round short-necked bottle or earthen jug (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