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Amis
Noun
konga
- lesser yam (Dioscorea esculenta)
References
Lindu
Noun
konga
- rice husk
- dreg
Maori
Etymology
From Proto-Polynesian *koŋa (“fragment, part”).
Noun
konga
- fragment, piece
- charcoal, live coal
Derived terms
Further reading
- “konga” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
- Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “koga”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
Mezquital Otomi
Noun
kónga
- brothel
References
- Hernández Cruz, Luis, Victoria Torquemada, Moisés (2010) Diccionario del hñähñu (otomí) del Valle del Mezquital, estado de Hidalgo (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 45) (in Spanish), second edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 138