English

Alternative forms

• Sangho

Proper noun

Sango

1. The primary language spoken in the Central African Republic: it has 5 million second-language speakers, but only 400,000 native speakers, mainly in the towns.

Translations

Anagrams

• agons
• Gaons
• Goans

English

Pronunciation

• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈsæŋəʊ/
• Rhymes: -æŋəʊ

Noun

sango ‎(plural sangos or sangoes)

1. (dated, Australia, informal, colloquial) A sandwich. [From 1940s.]

Usage notes

Now more common is sanger.

Synonyms

• (Australia, Ireland, informal) sambo
• (Australia, informal) sammie, sammo, sanger
• (UK, informal) sarnie

References

• Macquarie Slang Dictionary lists sanger, with sango under “also”.

Etymology 2

Noun

sango ‎(plural sangos)

1. (Britain) A rudimentary wooden bridge in India.
   • 1824, Alexander Gerard, Journal of an Excursion through the Himalayah Mountains, from Shipke to the Frontiers of Chinese Tartary, David Brewster (editor), The Edinburgh Journal of Science, Volume 1: April—October, page 219,

     We crossed it and another stream a little above their union by a couple of bad sangos, and ascended from its bed by a rocky footpath, winding amongst extensive forests of oak, yew, pine, and horse chesnut, to Camp.

   • 1865, Henry Astbury Leveson, The Hunting Grounds of the Old World, page 459,

     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.

Anagrams

• agons, Gaons, Goans

Bikol Central

Noun

sango

1. odor; smell; whiff

Esperanto

Etymology

From Italian sangue, from Latin sanguis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsanɡo/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsaŋɡo/ (considered by some to be incorrect)
• Hyphenation: san‧go

Noun

sango ‎(uncountable, accusative sangon)

1. blood

Derived terms

• sangi
• sangotransfuzo

French

Noun

sango m ‎(plural sangos)

1. Sango

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto sango, from French sang, Italian sangue, Spanish sangre, ultimately from Latin sanguis.

Noun

sango (uncountable)

1. blood

Derived terms

• sangala ‎(“sanguine”)
• sangoza ‎(“bloody, sanguinary”)
• sangifar ‎(“to bleed”)
• sangocirkulado ‎(“blood circulation”)
• sangomorbo ‎(“blood disease”)
• sangovarsar ‎(“to shed blood”)

Japanese

Romanization

sango

1. rōmaji reading of さんご