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A tonga
See also: Tonga
English
Etymology 1
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.
Etymology 2
From Tonga.
Noun
tonga (uncountable)
- (medicine) A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum.
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
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Polynesian *toŋa (“south wind”), possibly from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *təŋaq (“centre”).
No words for the cardinal directions can be unambiguously reconstructed for Proto-Polynesian, as there would be little use for them on the small Polynesian islands. However, on the much larger North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) and South Island (Te Waipounamu) of New Zealand, the usefulness of such terminology led the Māori to adopt this word for "south".
Noun
tonga
Coordinate terms
| tapatapātiu | tokerau, raki | kārapu |
| uru | 
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rāwhiti |
| uru-mā-tonga | tonga | pitonga |
References
- ^ Bruce Biggs (1994) “New Words for a New World”, in A. K. Pawley, M. D. Ross, editors, Austronesian Terminologies: Continuity and Change (Pacific Linguistics Series C; 127), Australian National University, , page 26.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
tonga f
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ton‧ga
Adjective
tonga
Noun
tonga m (uncountable)
Noun
tonga f (plural tongas)
- female equivalent of tongo
Noun
tonga f (plural tongas)
Rapa Nui
Noun
tonga
- a kind of yam
Solon
| < 4 | 5 | 6 > |
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| Cardinal : tonga | ||
Etymology
From Proto-Tungusic *tuńga. Cognate with Evenki тунӈа (tunŋa), Even ту̇нӈа̇н (tu̇nŋȧn), Oroqen tʊŋŋa, Manchu ᠰᡠᠨᠵᠠ (sunja).
Pronunciation
Numeral
tonga
Spanish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Latin tunica. Doublet of túnica, a borrowing.
Noun
tonga f (plural tongas)
- coating (thin outer layer)
- Synonym: tongada
- (Argentina, Colombia) task, job
- (Canary Islands, Cuba) heap, pile
Derived terms
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
tonga m or f by sense (plural tongas)
- a member of the Tonga people of southern Africa
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Tongan Tonga, from Samoan toga (“southern”).
Noun
tonga m or f by sense (plural tongas)
- Tongan (someone from Tonga)
Further reading
- “tonga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Turkish
Etymology
Unknown.