dingo
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Dharug dingu (“tame dingo”).
Pronunciation
Noun
dingo (plural dingos or dingoes)
- A wild dog native to Australia (Canis familiaris, Canis familiaris dingo, Canis dingo, or Canis lupus dingo).
- 1943, H. Lorna Bingham, The Lost Tribe, Sydney: Winn and Co., page 13, column 2:
- Dan was beginning to feel very depressed when suddenly the eerie howl of a dingo rang out[.]
- (Australia, informal) A cowardly or otherwise despicable person.
Hypernyms
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb
dingo (third-person singular simple present dingoes, present participle dingoing, simple past and past participle dingoed)
- (Australia, informal, transitive, intransitive) To behave in a cowardly or treacherous manner. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
- (Australia, informal, transitive, intransitive) To renege on an agreement or situation. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
- (Australia, informal, transitive, intransitive) To let down another individual. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
References
R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Aboriginal Words in English, Oxford University Press, 1990, →ISBN, pages 65 and 226.
Anagrams
Chamorro
Verb
dingo
- to abandon
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
dingo m anim
- dingo (wild dog native to Australia)
Declension
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English dingo, from Dharug dingu.
Pronunciation
Noun
dingo m (plural dingo's)
- dingo, Canis lupus dingo (Australian wild dog)
Esperanto
Etymology
From English dingo, French dingo, German Dingo, Polish dingo, Hungarian dingo and/or Russian динго (dingo), all ultimately from Dharug dingu (“tame dingo”).
Pronunciation
Noun
dingo (accusative singular dingon, plural dingoj, accusative plural dingojn)
- a dingo
Hypernyms
- kanisedo (“canid”)
Hyponyms
- virdingo (idiomatic) (a male dingo)
- dingido (“a young dingo, a dingo pup”)
- dingino (“a female dingo”)
Finnish
Etymology
From English dingo, from Dharug dingu (“tame dingo”).
Pronunciation
Noun
dingo
Declension
Inflection of dingo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | dingo | dingot | |
genitive | dingon | dingojen | |
partitive | dingoa | dingoja | |
illative | dingoon | dingoihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | dingo | dingot | |
accusative | nom. | dingo | dingot |
gen. | dingon | ||
genitive | dingon | dingojen | |
partitive | dingoa | dingoja | |
inessive | dingossa | dingoissa | |
elative | dingosta | dingoista | |
illative | dingoon | dingoihin | |
adessive | dingolla | dingoilla | |
ablative | dingolta | dingoilta | |
allative | dingolle | dingoille | |
essive | dingona | dingoina | |
translative | dingoksi | dingoiksi | |
abessive | dingotta | dingoitta | |
instructive | — | dingoin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
French
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Adjective
dingo (plural dingos)
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
dingo m (plural dingos)
- (zoology) dingo, wild Australian dog
Further reading
- “dingo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English, from Dharug.
Pronunciation
Noun
dingo m (plural dinghi or invariable)
Further reading
- dingo in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- dingo in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- dingo in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- dìngo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- dingo in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
Anagrams
Japanese
Romanization
dingo
Lithuanian
Pronunciation
Verb
diñgo
Malay
Etymology
From English dingo, from Dharug dingu (“tame dingo”).
Pronunciation
Noun
dingo (Jawi spelling ديڠو, plural dingo-dingo, informal 1st possessive dingoku, 2nd possessive dingomu, 3rd possessive dingonya)
- dingo (wild dog native to Australia)
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English dingo, from Dharug dingu.
Pronunciation
Noun
dingo m animal (indeclinable)
Further reading
- dingo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- dingo in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Noun
dingo m (plural dingos)
- dingo (wild dog native to Australia)
Romanian
Etymology
Noun
dingo m (uncountable)
Declension
Spanish
Pronunciation
Noun
dingo m (plural dingos)
Further reading
- “dingo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
Swedish
Noun
dingo c
- a dingo
Declension
References
- dingo in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- dingo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- dingo in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish [Term?], from English dingo, from Dharug dingu (“tame dingo”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: din‧go
Noun
dingo (definite accusative dingoyu, plural dingolar)
- a dingo
Declension
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Definite accusative | dingoyu | dingoları | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | dingoya | dingolara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | dingoda | dingolarda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | dingodan | dingolardan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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