chunga

chunga

1. painting
   • 2013 October 5, Timothy J. Dyches, “Ka Mochen Pwe Kopwe Unus?”, in LDS.org‎, retrieved 2015-07-14:

     Atun an ewe Samon a tonong non ei neni mi pwa non eu chunga seni Carl Bloch a iteni Kraist mi Apochokunata ekkewe mi Semwen non ewe Nenien Konik itan Bethesda. Bloch a chungani Jises a ekieta kinikinin mangaken eu imwan mangaku me a pwari emon "mwan mi semwen" a nom non (John 5:7) mi kokkon unukun ewe nenien konik, nge mi chok witiwit.

     The time the Lord enters in this place appears in a painting from Carl Bloch called Christ Healing the Sick in the Pool named Bethesda. Bloch painted Jesus lifting a portion of a cloth of a cloth house and he shows himself to a "sick man" in John 5:7 who is lying next to a pool, just waiting.

chunga m or f (plural chungas)

1. (Portugal, colloquial) crappy, dodgy, cheap (of bad quality, or in a bad condition)
2. (Porto, colloquial) bothersome

chunga m or f by sense (plural chungas)

1. (Portugal, Lisbon) a street thug

   Synonyms: (Porto) guna, (Brazil) mano, mitra

chunga f (plural chungas)

1. crazy or wild party

chunga

1. feminine singular of chungo

• “chungo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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From Proto-Bantu *-cùnga.

-chunga (infinitive kuchunga)

1. to protect, guard, herd animals

• Nominal derivations:
  • mchungaji (“priest”)

• -tunza

From Common Bantu *-cʊ̀nga.

-chunga (infinitive kuchunga)

1. to sieve, sift, winnow

• Nominal derivations:
  • kichungi (“sieve, filter”)