tonga

From Hindi टाँगा (tanga).

• tanga

tonga (plural tongas)

1. (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 2005, p. 13:

     When his tyre went flat, he leapt off and shouted for a tonga.

From Tonga.

tonga (uncountable)

1. (medicine) A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum.

• Atong, on tag, tag on, tango

tonga

1. Tongan (language)

• tango, togan

-tonga (infinitive kotonga)

1. to sew, to mend

1. -tónga

Common Malayo-Polynesian, compare Malay tengah.

tonga

1. south

tonga f

1. definite singular of tong

tonga m (uncountable)

1. Tongan (Austronesian language spoken in Tonga)

• tonganês

tonga

1. a kind of yam

From Proto-Tungusic *tuńga. Cognate with Evenki тунӈа (tunŋa), Even ту̇нӈа̇н (tu̇nŋȧn), Oroqen tʊŋŋa, Manchu ᠰᡠᠨᠵᠠ (sunja).

tonga

1. five

• IPA^(key): /ˈtonɡa/, [ˈt̪õŋɡa]

Inherited from Latin tunica. Doublet of túnica, a borrowing.

tonga f (plural tongas)

1. coating (thin outer layer)

   Synonym: tongada

2. (Argentina, Colombia) task, job
3. (Canary Islands, Cuba) heap, pile

• tongada
• entongar

tonga m or f (plural tongas)

1. a member of the Tonga people of southern Africa

tonga m or f (plural tongas)

1. Tongan (someone from Tonga)

• “tonga” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Unknown.

tonga (definite accusative {{{1}}}, plural {{{2}}})

1. (slang) cheating, trick