sagu

sagu (uncountable)

1. Archaic form of sago.

• Suga, Gaus, gaus, USGA

First attested in the 13th century, from Proto-Basque *sagu.

The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.

• IPA^(key): /s̺aɡu/ [s̺a.ɣ̞u]

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• Rhymes: -aɡu
• Hyphenation: sa‧gu

sagu inan or anim

1. (animate) mouse (small rodent)
2. (inanimate, computing) mouse (input device)

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

sagu

1. body fluid (of a corpse)

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

• IPA^(key): /saˈɡu/
• Hyphenation: sa‧go

sagu (first-person possessive saguku, second-person possessive sagumu, third-person possessive sagunya)

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

• “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.

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

• IPA^(key): /saˈɡu/
• Rhymes: -aɡu, -ɡu, -u

sagu (Jawi spelling ساݢو, plural sagu-sagu, informal 1st possessive saguku, 2nd possessive sagumu, 3rd possessive sagunya)

1. sago (a powdered starch obtained from certain palms used as a food thickener)

• pokok sagu

• “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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑ.ɡu/, [ˈsɑ.ɣu]

sagu f (nominative plural sage or saga)

1. statement, discourse, report

Strong ō-stem:

• saga

• Middle English: sawe
  • English: saw

From Malay sagu.

• Hyphenation: sa‧gu
• Rhymes: -u

sagu m (plural sagus)

1. sago (a powdered starch obtained from certain palms)
2. sago (any species of palm from which sago is extracted)
3. sago pudding (a dessert made by boiling small grains of sago)

• sagum
• (palm tree): saguzeiro, sagueiro

• Hunsrik: Sagu

Borrowed from French sagou.

sagu n (uncountable)

1. sago

• IPA^(key): [ˈsa.ɡu]

sagu

1. (transitive) to stab, spear

Conjugation of sagu
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	tosagu	fosagu	misagu
2nd	nosagu	nisagu
3rd	Masculine	osagu	isagu, yosagu†
Feminine	mosagu
Neuter	isagu
† - archaic

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