bongo
Portuguese, noun
bongo is spelled B-O-N-G-O (5 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 32,500th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bongo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus, an African antelope)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, bongô is a different word: “bongo (type of small drum)”.
What does bongo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus, an African antelope)
noun
- 1
masculinealternative form of bongô
noun
- 1
masculinebongo (type of small drum)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. instrumento de percussão, do tipo membranofone, de origem africana, constituído de dois pequenos tambores geminados, de afinações diferentes, e tocados com os dedos
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bongo
- bongos plural
- bongôs plural
- bongo alternative Portugal
- bongó alternative Portugal
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to bongo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bongo in Portuguese?
bongo appears 1.0 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).