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Barong

Definition: Barong

Barong

Noun

1. A knife resembling a cleaver; used in the Philippines.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Barong \Ba*rong"\, noun. [Native name.]. (Websters 1913)

Commercial Usage: Barong

DomainTitle

Books

  • Bali: Rangda and Barong (American Ethnological Society Monographs No. 16) (reference)

  • The Barong Tagalog : the Philippine national wear (reference)

  • Trance Balinese Barong, Gnawa Music of Morocco, Zkir from Chinese Turkestan (The Musica Expeditions Series/Book and Cd) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Barong

Illustrations:
Barong

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Barong

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

barong tagalog

73

barong

45

barong shirt

8

barong filipino

4

barong sale tagalog

4

barong sword

3

barong philippine

3

barong philippine tagalog

2

kupu kupu barong

2

barong saya

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Barong

Language Translations for "barong"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

arongbay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Barong

Derivations

Words beginning with "barong": barongs. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Barong" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bagong, bajrang, Bakongo, balrog, Bamrung, barjonna, barog, Barogi, baronne, bayong, berang, borongaj, Navrongo, warong. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Barong

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: brogan.

Words within the letters "a-b-g-n-o-r"

-1 letter: argon, baron, bogan, goban, groan, orang, organ.

-2 letters: agon, bang, barn, boar, bong, bora, born, brag, bran, garb, gnar, grab, gran, rang, roan.

-3 letters: abo, ago, arb, bag, ban, bar, boa, bog, bra, bro, gab, gan, gar, goa, gob, gor, nab, nag, nob, nog, nor, oar, ora, orb, rag, ran, rob.

-4 letters: ab, ag, an, ar, ba, bo, go, na, no, on, or.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-g-n-o-r"
 

+1 letter: barongs, begroan, brogans, hagborn, probang.

 

+2 letters: aborning, aborting, baronage, begroans, bigaroon, boarding, borating, bravoing, garbanzo, laboring, osnaburg, probangs, taboring.

 

+3 letters: abhorring, abnegator, aborigine, absorbing, adsorbing, baronages, begroaned, bigaroons, boardings, boogerman, boomerang, broaching, brocading, bromating, garbanzos, habergeon, harboring, ignorable, labouring, osnaburgs, probating, signboard, tabouring.

 

+4 letters: abnegators, aboriginal, aborigines, abrogating, abrogation, arborizing, background, barhopping, baronetage, begroaning, belaboring, bombarding, boomerangs, broadening, embargoing, forbearing, governable, habergeons, harbouring, loganberry, nonbearing, obturating, outbargain, outbarking, outbraving, overbaking, parboiling, reboarding, signboards, tambouring, tobogganer, urbanology.

 

+5 letters: aboriginals, aboveground, abrogations, absorbingly, aerobraking, approbating, backgrounds, bankrolling, baronetages, beardtongue, beclamoring, becowarding, beglamoring, belabouring, bioregional, bookmarking, boomeranged, broadsiding, brominating, browbeating, carbonating, carbonizing, crowbarring, elaborating, fingerboard, interrobang, keyboarding, laborsaving, mislaboring, negrophobia, objurgating, objurgation, organizable, outbargains, outbragging, outbrawling, overbearing, overbeating, panbroiling, pawnbroking, reabsorbing, reobtaining, reprobating, springboard, subregional, subrogating, subrogation, tobogganers, unignorable.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Barong


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 61 72 6F 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-    .-.    ---    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100001 01110010 01101111 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#114 &#111 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 0072 006F 006E 0067

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

366784818073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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