tonga
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English
Etymology 1
From Hindi टाँगा (ṭāṅgā).
Alternative forms
Noun
tonga (plural tongas)
- (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, published 2005, page 13:
- When his tyre went flat, he leapt off and shouted for a tonga.
- 1972, Abulhasan 'Ali Nadvi, The Musalman, page 42:
- The Muslim ladies who earlier moved out in covered palanquins, dolis and muhafas or completely veiled coaches and victorias are now obliged to go about in tongas, rikshaws and buses leaving aside the earlier scruples.
Etymology 2
From Tonga.
Noun
tonga (uncountable)
See also
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Latin tunica. Doublet of túnica, a learned borrowing.
Pronunciation
Noun
tonga f (plural tongues)
- (historical) a form of tunic worn by Catalan Jews during the Middle Ages
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “tonga” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Finnish
Etymology
< Tonga
Pronunciation
Noun
tonga
- Tongan (language)
Declension
| Inflection of tonga (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation) | |||
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| 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 | — | |
| abessive | tongatta | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Anagrams
Lingala
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *-tʊ́nga.
Verb
-tonga (infinitive kotonga)
See also
Malagasy
Etymology 1
Participle
tonga
Etymology 2
The talisman sense comes from Etymology 1 of the word.
Noun
tonga
- (Mahafaly, Sakalava) a charm or talisman believed to bring one safely to their destination
- (by extension) a plant used to make this talisman, the blue porterweed (Stachytarpheta jamaicensis)
- (Antanosy) rosy periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus)
- (Bara) Catharanthus longifolius
Maori
Norwegian Nynorsk
Portuguese
Rapa Nui
Solon
Spanish
Turkish
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