sango

noun
/ˈsæŋəʊ/

Etymology

Abbreviation of sandwich (pronounced sangwich) + -o (colloquialising suffix). Australian from 1940s.

  1. borrowed from Sängö

Definitions

  1. A sandwich.

  2. A rudimentary wooden bridge in India.

    • Four large mountain torrents, the Dangalee, Dubrane, Loarnad, and Rindee Gadh, join the Ganges from the left bank, and have to be crossed by sangos.
  3. The primary language spoken in the Central African Republic.

    • Sango has 5 million second-language speakers, but only 400,000 native speakers, mainly in the towns.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sango. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA