even if one says

(dialect, Kagoshima) a dango (round sticky dumpling made from flour)

a dango (round sticky dumpling made from uruchi (non-glutinous) rice flour mixed with glutinous rice flour) / (by extension) something round as a ball / (colloquial) a bunch, lump / (colloquial) a bullet

団子: a traditional Japanese sweet round dumpling

a bun hairstyle

to say, to tell somebody / to call, to name, to give a name / to cry, to call, to make a noise (such as an animal)

in other words; what I (you, etc.) mean is

to startle; to surprise; to astonish

past tense and perfective aspect of 言う (iu, yū) [godan]

nonetheless, although, be that as it may