tonga

See also Tonga

English

Etymology 1

From Hindi टाँगा (tanga).

Alternative forms

• tanga

Noun

tonga (plural tongas)

1. (India) A light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage used for transportation in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
   • 1890, Plain Tales from the Hills, Rudyard Kipling

     Coming up along the Cart-Road a tonga passed me, and my pony, tired with standing so long, set off at a canter.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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

• tango

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Finnish

Proper noun

tonga

1. Tongan (language)

Declension

Declension of tonga (type koira) singular plural nominative tonga – genitive tongan – partitive tongaa – accusative tonga tongan – inessive tongassa – elative tongasta – illative tongaan – adessive tongalla – ablative tongalta – allative tongalle – essive tongana – translative tongaksi – instructive – – abessive tongatta – comitative – – 1) Rare.

Anagrams

• tango, togan

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Lojban

Etymology

In Lojbanized spelling.

• Chinese: iingau — 音高 [yīn gāo]
• English: ton — tone
• Hindi: tan — तान [tāna]
• Spanish: ton — tono
• Arabic: tanak

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈton.ɡa/

Gismu

tonga (rafsi tog, to'a)

1. tone; x1 is a tone/note of frequency/pitch x2 from source x3.

See also

• rilti
• zgike
• janbe
• siclu

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Maori

Etymology

Common Malayo-Polynesian, compare Indonesian tengah

Noun

tonga

1. south

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Rapa Nui

Noun

tonga

1. a kind of yam

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Turkish

Etymology

Unknown.

Noun

tonga

1. (slang) cheating, trick