tonga

See also: Tonga

English

Etymology 1

From Hindi टाँगा (tanga).

Alternative forms

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

Finnish

Proper noun

tonga

  1. Tongan (language)

Declension

Inflection of tonga (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation)
nominative tonga —
genitive tongan —
partitive tongaa —
illative tongaan —
singular plural
nominative tonga —
accusative nom. tonga —
gen. tongan
genitive tongan —
partitive tongaa —
inessive tongassa —
elative tongasta —
illative tongaan —
adessive tongalla —
ablative tongalta —
allative tongalle —
essive tongana —
translative tongaksi —
instructive — —
abessive tongatta —
comitative — —

Anagrams

Maori

Etymology

Common Malayo-Polynesian, compare 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)

Synonyms

Rapa Nui

Noun

tonga

  1. a kind of yam

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtonɡa/, [ˈt̪õŋɡa]

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

Etymology 2

Noun

tonga m, f (plural tongas)

  1. a member of the Tonga people of southern Africa

Etymology 3

Noun

tonga m, f (plural tongas)

  1. Tongan (someone from Tonga)

Further reading

Turkish

Etymology

Unknown.

Noun

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

  1. (slang) cheating, trick
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