bigu

See also: bigú, bígǔ, and bìgǔ

English

Noun

bigu (uncountable)

1. A Daoist practice of fasting and avoiding grain (or sometimes all foods).

Dupaningan Agta

Adjective

bigu

1. new

Isthmus Zapotec

Etymology

Cognate with San Juan Guelavía Zapotec begu.

Noun

bigu

1. turtle, tortoise

References

• Pickett, Velma; et al. (2013), Vocabulario zapoteco del Istmo: Zapoteco-español y español-zapoteco (Serie de vocabularios y diccionaries indígenas “Mariano Silva y Acevas”; 3)‎^[1] (in Spanish), fifth (electronic) edition, second version edition, Insituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 6

Portuguese

Noun

bigu m (plural bigus)

1. (Northeast Brazil) ride; lift (the act of transporting someone in a vehicle)

   Synonyms: carona, boleia

Further reading

• “bigu”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “bigu”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026