different between conga vs longa

English

Etymology

For the dance:

• Borrowed from Spanish Congo (“Congo dance”), so-called for being assumedly of sub-Saharan African origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k????/
• (US) enPR: käng?g?, IPA^(key): /?k????/
• Rhymes: -????
• Homophone: conger (non-rhotic accents)

Noun

conga (plural congas)

1. (music) A tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban hand drum of African origin.
2. (dance) A march of Cuban origin in four-four time in which people form a chain, each holding the hips of the person in front of them; in each bar, dancers take three shuffle steps and then kick alternate legs outwards at the beat; the chain weaves around the place and allows new participants to join the back of the chain. [from 1935]

Derived terms

• conga line

Translations

Verb

conga (third-person singular simple present congas, present participle congaing, simple past and past participle congaed)

1. To dance the conga.

See also

• bunny hop

Further reading

• conga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• conga line on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Cogan

Dutch

Etymology

Likely borrowed from English conga, from Spanish conga, from Congo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??.?a?/
• Hyphenation: con?ga

Noun

conga f (plural conga's)

1. (music) A conga (tall, narrow Cuban hand drum used in pairs).
2. (music, uncountable) Conga (Cuban march music and dance style).

French

Noun

conga f (plural congas)

1. conga (dance)

Further reading

• “conga” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• cogna

Romanian

Etymology

From French conga.

Noun

conga f (uncountable)

1. conga (drum)
2. conga (dance)

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kon?a/, [?kõ?.?a]

Noun

conga f (plural congas)

1. conga (dance)

English

Etymology 1

From Kriol langa, from English along. Compare Bislama and Tok Pisin long.

Preposition

longa

1. (Australian Aboriginal) Belonging to; of, in, at, to. [from 19th c.]
   • 1991, Jimmy Chi, Bran Nue Dae, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 137:

     This fella song all about the Aboriginal people, coloured people, black people longa Australia.

   • 2000, Queensland Department of Justice, Aboriginal English in the courts: a handbook:

     He wait longa river.

Synonyms

• la
• 'long

Etymology 2

From Latin longa.

Noun

longa (plural longæ or longe or longas)

1. (music) A musical note equal to two or three breves, i.e. four or six whole notes.

   Synonym: (U.S.) quadruple whole note

Anagrams

• Anglo, Anglo-, Golan, Logan, NALGO, along, anglo, anglo-, logan

Esperanto

Etymology

From English and French long, from Latin longus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lon?a/
• Hyphenation: lon?ga
• Rhymes: -on?a

Adjective

longa (accusative singular longan, plural longaj, accusative plural longajn)

1. long
   • 1915, L. L. Zamenhof (translator), Malnova Testamento, Eliro 2:23.

     Post longa tempo mortis la re?o de Egiptujo.

     After a long time the king of Egypt died.

   Antonym: mallonga

Derived terms

• longi?i
• longtempa

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse langa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l??ka/
• Rhymes: -??ka

Noun

longa f (genitive singular longu, plural longur)

1. ling (fish)
2. common ling

Declension

Derived terms

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto longa.

Adjective

longa

1. long

Antonyms

• kurta

Derived terms

• longeskar (“to lengthen”, transitive verb)
• longigar (“to lengthen, elongate, prolong”, intransitive verb)

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?????], [?l??????], [?l?????], [?l??????]

Noun

longa f pl

1. nominative plural of long
2. vocative plural of long
3. dative plural of long

Italian

Adjective

longa

1. feminine singular of longo

Latin

Adjective

longa

1. inflection of longus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

long?

1. ablative feminine singular of longus

Noun

longa f (genitive longae); first declension

1. (music) a long (British), quadruple whole note (US)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? English: longa

References

• longa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• longa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Neapolitan

Adjective

longa f sg

1. feminine singular of luongo

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

longa f

1. definite singular of longe

Anagrams

• logna

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

longa f (definite singular longa, indefinite plural longer or longor, definite plural longene or longone)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by lange
2. definite singular of longe

Anagrams

• logna, ongla

Occitan

Adjective

longa

1. feminine singular of long

Portuguese

Etymology

From longo.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?lõ.??/

Adjective

longa

1. feminine singular of longo

Derived terms

• longa-duração
• longa-metragem

Noun

longa f (plural longas)

1. (grammar) long syllable
2. (music) long (a note formerly used in music, twice the length of a breve)

Noun

longa f (Portugal) or m (Brazil) (plural longas)

1. Clipping of longa-metragem.

Spanish

Noun

longa f (plural longas)

1. (music) longa