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English

Etymology 1

From Hindi ????? (???g?).

Alternative forms

• tanga

Noun

tonga (plural tongas)

1. (India) A light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage used for transportation in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
   • 1890, Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills:

     Coming up along the Cart-Road a tonga passed me, and my pony, tired with standing so long, set off at a canter.

   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 13:

     When his tyre went flat, he leapt off and shouted for a tonga.

Etymology 2

From Tonga.

Noun

tonga (uncountable)

1. (medicine) A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum.

Anagrams

• Atong, on tag, tag on, tango

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin tunica. Doublet of túnica, a learned borrowing.

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?to?.??/

• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?to?.?a/

Noun

tonga f (plural tongues)

1. (historical) A form of tunic worn by Catalan Jews during the Middle Ages.

Derived terms

• tongada

Related terms

• caftà

Further reading

• “tonga” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Finnish

Etymology

< Tonga

Noun

tonga

1. Tongan (language)

Declension

Anagrams

• tango, togan

Lingala

Verb

-tonga (infinitive kotonga)

1. to sew, to mend

See also

• -tónga

Malagasy

Etymology 1

Participle

tonga

1. arrived

Etymology 2

The talisman sense comes from Etymology 1 of the word.

Noun

tonga

1. (Mahafaly, Sakalava) a charm or talisman believed to bring one safely to their destination
2. (by extension) a plant used to make this talisman, the blue porterweed (Stachytarpheta jamaicensis)
3. (Antanosy) rosy periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus)
4. (Bara) Catharanthus longifolius

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *te?aq. Cognate with Malay tengah.

Noun

tonga

1. south

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tonga f

1. definite singular of tong

Portuguese

Noun

tonga m (uncountable)

1. Tongan (Austronesian language spoken in Tonga)

   Synonym: tonganês

Rapa Nui

Noun

tonga

1. a kind of yam

Solon

Etymology

From Proto-Tungusic *tu?ga. Cognate with Evenki ????? (tun?a), Even ???????? (tu?n??n), Oroqen t???a, Manchu ????? (sunja).

Pronunciation

Numeral

tonga

1. five

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ton?a/, [?t?õ?.?a]

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin tunica. Doublet of túnica, a borrowing.

Noun

tonga f (plural tongas)

1. coating (thin outer layer)

   Synonym: tongada

2. (Argentina, Colombia) task, job
3. (Canary Islands, Cuba) heap, pile

Derived terms

• tongada
• entongar

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tonga m or f (plural tongas)

1. a member of the Tonga people of southern Africa

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tonga m or f (plural tongas)

1. Tongan (someone from Tonga)

Further reading

• “tonga” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Turkish

Etymology

Unknown.

Noun

tonga (definite accusative {{{1}}}, plural {{{2}}})

1. (slang) cheating, trick

English

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /d?????/, /d????/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d????/

Etymology 1

From Afrikaans donga, from Zulu udonga.

Noun

donga (plural dongas)

1. (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)

1. (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.

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)

1. 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)

1. there is, there are

2. to have, belong, be at, reside, dwell
3. be married to

Japanese

Romanization

donga

1. R?maji transcription of ???