different between tonga vs toga

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

Etymology

From Latin toga, from teg? (“I clothe”). Doublet of toge.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t????/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?to???/
• Rhymes: -????

Noun

toga (plural togas or togae or togæ)

1. A loose outer garment worn by the citizens of Ancient Rome.
2. A loose wrap gown.
3. (Philippines) An academic gown.

Synonyms

• toge (obsolete)

Derived terms

• togaed
• toga party

Translations

See also

• chiton

Anagrams

• G. O. A. T., G.O.A.T., GOAT, Goat, Gøta, atgo, go at, goat

Cebuano

Noun

toga

1. an academic gown
2. (historical) loose outer garment worn by the citizens of Rome

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin toga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?to?.?a?/
• Hyphenation: to?ga
• Rhymes: -o??a?

Noun

toga f (plural toga's, diminutive togaatje n)

1. (historical) A toga, an outer garment worn by Roman patrician men.
2. A gown worn by academics, Christian priests or ministers, and certain members of the legal profession.

Hypernyms

• ambtskleed

Descendants

• Afrikaans: toga

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse toga, from Proto-Germanic *tug?n?; cognate with English tow.

Verb

toga (third person singular past indicative togaði, third person plural past indicative togaðu, supine togað)

1. to pull

Conjugation

Finnish

Noun

toga

1. Alternative form of tooga

Declension

Anagrams

• gota

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse toga, from Proto-Germanic *tug?n?; cognate with English tow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t????a/

  Rhymes: -???a

Verb

toga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative togaði, supine togað)

1. (transitive, intransitive, governs the accusative) to pull, to draw, to tug
2. (transitive, intransitive, governs the accusative) to trawl

Inflection

Synonyms

• (pull): draga

Derived terms

• hártogun
• hlaupa eins og fætur toga (to run as fast as one can)
• toga í eitthvað (to pull on something)
• togast
• togast á um (to fight over something, to contend for something)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin toga.

Noun

toga f (plural toghe)

1. toga
2. gown, robe
3. magistrate, judge
4. (by extension) lawyer

Related terms

• togale
• togato

Anagrams

• gota

Japanese

Romanization

toga

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *togéh? (“cover”), from *(s)teg- (“to cover”) (whence teg?).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?to.?a/, [?t???ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?to.?a/, [?t?????]

Noun

toga f (genitive togae); first declension

1. toga

   Toga candida.

   Pure white toga.

2. a garment
3. a roof
4. (figuratively) a client
5. (figuratively) peace

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: toga
• French: toge
• Italian: toga
• Spanish: toga

References

• toga in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• toga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Northern Sami

Etymology

Borrowed from Norwegian tog, Swedish tåg.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?t?o?ka/

Noun

t?ga

1. (Norway, Sweden) train

   Synonym: juná

Inflection

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• togene

Noun

toga n

1. definite plural of tog

Etymology 2

From Latin toga

Noun

toga m (definite singular togaen, indefinite plural togaer, definite plural togaene)

1. a toga (Roman garment)

References

• “toga” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “toga” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Noun

toga n

1. definite plural of tog

Etymology 2

From Latin toga

Noun

toga m (definite singular togaen, indefinite plural togaer or togaar, definite plural togaene or togaane)

1. a toga (Roman garment)

References

• “toga” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• tog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?to?a/

Verb

toga

1. second-person singular imperative of do·goa

Mutation

Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *tug?n?.

Verb

toga

1. to draw, pull, stretch

Conjugation

Descendants

• Faroese: toga
• Icelandic: toga
• Norwegian Nynorsk: toge

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

toga

1. indefinite genitive plural of tog

References

• toga in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Polish

Etymology

From Latin toga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?.?a/

Noun

toga f

1. toga, gown

Declension

Further reading

• toga in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• toga in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

toga f (plural togas)

1. toga (loose outer garment worn by the citizens of ancient Rome)

Samoan

Noun

toga

1. south

Adjective

toga

1. southern

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???a/
• Hyphenation: to?ga

Noun

tóga f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. toga, gown

Declension

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *t?ga.

Noun

t??ga f

1. sadness (state/emotion)

   Synonym: žálost

Etymology 2

Noun

t??ga f

1. toga (garment worn by the citizens of Ancient Rome)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

tóga

1. inflection of tog:
   1. masculine nominative/accusative dual
   2. feminine nominative singular
   3. neuter nominative/accusative plural

Further reading

• “toga”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin toga.

Noun

toga f (plural togas)

1. toga
2. (ceremonial) gown; (ceremonial) robe (worn by a lawyer, judge, graduate, professor etc.)

Verb

toga

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of togarse.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of togarse.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of togarse.