# sagu
## English
### Noun

sagu (uncountable)
* Archaic form of sago.

### Anagrams

* Suga, Gaus, gaus, USGA

## Basque
### Etymology

First attested in the 13th century, from Proto-Basque *sagu.
The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /s̺aɡu/ [s̺a.ɣ̞u]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aɡu, -u
* Hyphenation: sa‧gu

### Noun

sagu inan or anim
* (animate) mouse (small rodent)
* (inanimate, computing) mouse (input device)

#### Derived terms

* saguzar (“bat”)
* satitsu (“shrew”)
* satandre (“weasel”)
* satsuri
* sator (“mole”)

## Binukid
### Noun

sagu
* body fluid (of a corpse)

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Malay sagu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sagu (“processed sago; fluid oozing from a wound, infected sore, or corpse”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /saˈɡu/
* Hyphenation: sa‧go

### Noun

sagu (plural sagu-sagu)
* sago:
** any of the palms from which sago is extracted.
** a powdered starch obtained from certain palms, specifically Metroxylon sagu, used as a food thickener.
** a powdered starch obtained from a palm-like cycad, Cycas revoluta.

#### Derived terms

* menyagu
* sagu belanda
* sagu betawi
* sagu hati
* sagu hitam
* sagu mutiara
* sagu pisang
* sagu rendang
* sagu tampin
* sagu tumang

### Further reading

* “sagu” 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.

## Malay
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sagu (“processed sago, prepared starch from the sago palm”). Cognate with Javanese sagu and Tagalog sago.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /saˈɡu/
* Rhymes: -aɡu, -ɡu, -u

### Noun

sagu (Jawi spelling ساݢو, plural sagu-sagu, informal 1st possessive saguku, 2nd possessive sagumu, 3rd possessive sagunya)
* sago (a powdered starch obtained from certain palms used as a food thickener)

#### Derived terms

* pokok sagu

#### Descendants

* → Arabic: سَاغُو (sāḡū)
* → Armenian: սագո (sago)
* → Burmese: သာဂူ (sagu)
* → Catalan: sagú
* → Czech: ságo
* → Danish: sago
* → Dutch: sago
* → English: sago
* → Finnish: saago
* → French: sagou
* → German: Sago
* → Hungarian: szágó
* Indonesian: sagu
* → Italian: sagù
* → Japanese: サゴ (sago)
* → Norwegian: sago
* → Persian: ساگو
* → Polish: sago
* → Portuguese: sagu
** Hunsrik: Sagu
* → Russian: са́го (ságo)
* → Spanish: sagú
* → Swedish: sago

### Further reading

* “sagu” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*sagu₁”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sagǭ, whence also Old Frisian sege, Old High German saga, Old Norse saga.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɑ.ɡu/, [ˈsɑ.ɣu]

### Noun

sagu f (nominative plural sage or saga)
* statement, discourse, report

#### Declension

Strong ō-stem:

#### Related terms

* saga

#### Descendants

* Middle English: sawe
** English: saw

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Malay sagu.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /saˈɡu/
* (Portugal) IPA: /saˈɡu/ [saˈɣu]
* Hyphenation: sa‧gu
* Rhymes: -u

### Noun

sagu m (plural sagus)
* sago (a powdered starch obtained from certain palms)
* sago (any species of palm from which sago is extracted)
* sago pudding (a dessert made by boiling small grains of sago)

#### Synonyms

* sagum
* (palm tree): saguzeiro, sagueiro

#### Descendants

* Hunsrik: Sagu

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French sagou.

### Noun

sagu n (uncountable)
* sago

#### Declension
## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsa.ɡu]

### Verb

sagu
* (transitive) to stab, spear

#### Conjugation
### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh