# sago
## English
### Etymology 1

From Malay sagu, via Portuguese sagu or Dutch sago.

#### Pronunciation

* (Philippines) IPA: /sɐˈɡo/
* Rhymes: -eɪɡəʊ

#### Noun

sago (countable and uncountable, plural sagos or sagoes)
* A powdered starch obtained from certain palms (Metroxylon spp., esp. Metroxylon sagu), used as a flour and food thickener and for sizing textiles.
* A similar starch obtained from a palm-like cycad (Cycas revoluta).
* Any of the palms from which sago is extracted.

##### Derived terms

* Portland sago
* sago palm (Metroxylon sagu)
* sago pudding
* sago spleen

##### See also

* sago palm

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

sago (plural sagos)
* Alternative form of sego

### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “sago”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

### Further reading

* sago on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Gaos, Ogas, AOGs, Gosa, goas

## Cebuano
### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: sa‧go

### Noun

sago
* sago palm (Metroxylon sagu)
* sago cycad (Cycas revoluta)
* starch from these plants
* a sago pearl or the similar-looking boba and landang

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:sago.

### Anagrams

* asog

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Malay sagu.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: sa‧go

### Noun

sago m (uncountable)
* a powdered starch obtained from certain palms used as a food thickener
* any of the palms from which sago is extracted

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Latin sagitta. Doublet of Sagitario.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsaɡo]
* Rhymes: -aɡo
* Hyphenation: sa‧go

### Noun

sago (accusative singular sagon, plural sagoj, accusative plural sagojn)
* arrow
* (darts) dart
    Synonyms: sageto, pikilo

#### Derived terms

* sage (“like an arrow; headlong”)
* sageto (“dart”)
* sagi (“to dart”)
* sagisto (“archer”)
* sagujo (“quiver”)

## Hausa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sá.ɡóː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [sə́.ɡʷóː]

### Noun

sagō m (possessed form sagon)
* snake
    Synonym: macī̀jī

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsa.ɡo/
* Rhymes: -aɡo
* Hyphenation: sà‧go

### Etymology 1

From Latin sāgus.

#### Adjective

sago (feminine saga, masculine plural saghi, feminine plural saghe)
* (archaic, literary) divining, prophetic, soothsaying
    Synonyms: presago, profetico

##### Related terms

* saga

### Etymology 2

From Latin sagum, sagus, from Ancient Greek σάγος (ságos), perhaps of Gaulish origin.

#### Noun

sago m (plural saghi)
* (Ancient Rome) sagum, a military cloak
* (literary) Synonym of saio

### Anagrams

* gaso, gasò, soga

## Japanese
### Romanization

sago
* Rōmaji transcription of さご
* Rōmaji transcription of サゴ

## Latin
### Adjective

sāgō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of sāgus

### Noun

sagō m
* singular dative/ablative of sagus

### Noun

sagō n
* singular dative/ablative of sagum

### References

* "sago", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsa.ɡu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsa.ɡu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈsa.ɡo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈsa.ɡu/ [ˈsa.ɣu]

### Noun

sago m (plural sagos)
* (historical) sagum (cloak worn by Gallic, Germanic and Roman soldiers)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French sagou.

### Noun

sago n (uncountable)
* sago

#### Declension
## Tagalog
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sagu (“processed sago, prepared starch from the sago palm”). Compare Bikol Central sago, Cebuano sago, Javanese ꦱꦒꦸ (sagu), Malay sagu, and Spanish sagú.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /saˈɡo/ [sɐˈɣo]
* Rhymes: -o
* Syllabification: sa‧go

#### Noun

sagó (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜄᜓ)
* sago palm (Metroxylon sagu)
* sago starch
* pearl sago
* (colloquial, by extension) tapioca pearl

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *saʀu (“body fluid from a corpse; fluid oozing from a wound”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈsaɡo/ [ˈsaː.ɣo]
* Rhymes: -aɡo
* Syllabification: sa‧go

#### Noun

sago (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜄᜓ)
* oozing fluid (from a wound, boil, rotting meat or fish, etc.)
    Synonyms: kayat, tagas, daloy
* oozing; slow flow
    Synonyms: tagas, daloy, kayat, pagtagas, pagdaloy, pagkayat

##### Derived terms

* saguhan

### Anagrams

* Saog, asog, saog, gaso, agos