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donga
English
Pronunciation
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /d?????/, /d????/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d????/
Etymology 1
From Afrikaans donga, from Zulu udonga.
Noun
donga (plural dongas)
- (South Africa) A usually dry, eroded watercourse running only in times of heavy rain.
- Synonyms: arroyo, wadi, wash
- 1900, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War, Volume 2, 2008 Easyread Large Bold Edition, page 14:
- Major Pack-Beresford and other officers were shot down, and every unhorsed man remained necessarily as a prisoner under the very muzzles of the riflemen in the donga.
- 1901, Ernest William Hornung, “The Knees of the Gods”, in Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman, Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 284:
- There were trenches for us men, but no place of safety for our horses nearer than this long and narrow donga which ran from within our lines towards those of the Boers.
- 1948, Henry Vollam Morton, In Search of South Africa,[1] Methuen, page 168:
- Thousands of miserable cattle and goats roamed everywhere making tracks that would someday form cracks which successive rains would open into gullies and dongas.
- 1999, JM Coetzee, Disgrace, Vintage 2000, p. 98:
- Count yourself lucky not to be a prisoner in the car at this moment, speeding away, or at the bottom of a donga with a bullet in your head.
Translations
References
- Jean Bradford, A Dictionary of South African English, Oxford (1978).
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
donga (plural dongas)
- (Australia) A transportable building with single rooms, often used on remote work sites or as tourist accommodation.
- 2004, Susie Ashworth, Rebecca Turner, Simone Egger, Western Australia, Lonely Planet, page 152,
- Menzies Hotel ([Ph] 9024 2043; 22 Shenton St; s/d $48/65, donga $75) has old-style hotel rooms as well as - for that real goldfields experience - dongas (temporary miner?s abode, usually made from corrugated iron), and also serves all meals.
- 2004, James Woodford, The Dog Fence, page 225,
- He not only expects his fence to be perfect, he also expects his dongas to be the best workman?s huts in Australia, and that is what they are.
- 2009, David Marr, The Ibdian Ocean Solution, Robyn Davidson (editor), The Best Australian Essays 2009, page 118,
- Workers building roads in the bush sleep in dongas like these and are well paid for their discomfort.
- 2004, Susie Ashworth, Rebecca Turner, Simone Egger, Western Australia, Lonely Planet, page 152,
Usage notes
- Usually used in outback Australia, especially the northwest.
Anagrams
- Dagon, Dogan, Gonda, dango, dogan, goand, gonad
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Zulu udonga.
Noun
donga (plural dongas)
- donga
Descendants
- ? English: donga
- ? German: Donga
Garo
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
donga (intransitive)
- there is, there are
- to have, belong, be at, reside, dwell
- be married to
Japanese
Romanization
donga
- R?maji transcription of ???
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dong
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??/
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Vietnamese ??ng, from Middle Chinese ? (duwng, “copper”) (compare Mandarin ? (tóng)), from Old Chinese ? (*l?o?).
Noun
dong (plural dongs or dong)
- The currency of Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: ?
Translations
Etymology 2
Origin unknown. Perhaps from The Dong with a Luminous Nose, an 1894 poem by Edward Lear about a mythical creature. Attested since the 1930s.
Noun
dong (plural dongs)
- (slang) A penis.
- 1983, "Penis Song" (from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life)
- Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis?
Isn't it frightfully good to have a dong?
- Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis?
- 1983, "Penis Song" (from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life)
- (slang, by extension) A dildo, specifically a synthetic anatomical replica of the penis.
Synonyms
- (penis): See Thesaurus:penis.
Related terms
- ding-dong
Etymology 3
Onomatopoeic
Noun
dong (plural dongs)
- Onomatopoeia for the ringing sound made by a bell with a low pitch.
Translations
Verb
dong (third-person singular simple present dongs, present participle donging, simple past and past participle donged)
- Of a bell: to make a low-pitched ringing sound.
Etymology 4
Korean ?(?) (dong, “neighborhood”)
Noun
dong (plural dongs)
- A submunicipal administrative unit of a city in North or South Korea.
Anagrams
- Gond, gnod
Ambonese Malay
Etymology
Syncope of dorang.
Pronoun
dong
- they
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??/
- Hyphenation: dong
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch *dong, from Old Dutch *dunga, from Proto-Germanic *dung?. Cognate to English dung.
Noun
dong m (uncountable)
- (dated, dialectal, Northern) dung, manure
- Synonym: mest
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Vietnamese ??ng.
Noun
dong m (plural dongs)
- dong, the currency of Vietnam
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
dong
- singular past indicative of dingen
Hungarian
Etymology
From an onomatopoeia + -g (frequentative verb-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?do??]
- Rhymes: -o??
- Homophone: ??ng
Verb
dong
- (intransitive, of an insect) to buzz, bumble, drone
- (intransitive, of a large hollow object) to boom, rumble, thunder (to make a dull, low-pitched, reverberating sound when hit)
Conjugation
or
Derived terms
- dongás
- dongó
(With verbal prefixes):
See also
- ??ng (“currency of Vietnam”)
References
Further reading
- dong in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
- dong in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2021)
Mandarin
Romanization
dong
- Nonstandard spelling of d?ng.
- Nonstandard spelling of d?ng.
- Nonstandard spelling of dòng.
Usage notes
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Middle English
Noun
dong
- Alternative form of donge
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
dong m (definite singular dongen, indefinite plural donger, definite plural dongene)
- (slang) condom
Portuguese
Noun
dong m (plural dongs)
- dong (currency of Vietnam)
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà N?i) IPA(key): [zaw??m??]
- (Hu?) IPA(key): [jaw??m??]
- (H? Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [jaw??m??]
Verb
dong
- drive, escort
Noun
(classifier cây) dong
- Phrynium placentarium
Westrobothnian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ù??
Etymology
From dyngj.
Noun
dong m (definite dongen)
- droppings, especially in a pen, especially sheep droppings mixed with straw residue, bedding and hay motes, which the sheep lie on in the sheep barn
Zou
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /do??/
Verb
dong
- (transitive) to solicit
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /do??/
Verb
dong
- (transitive) to intercept
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /do???/
Verb
dóng
- (transitive) to hinder
Etymology 4
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /do???/
Verb
dòng
- (intransitive) to ask
References
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 63
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