wanga

English

Noun

wanga (plural wangas or wanga)

  1. (voodoo) A magic spell or charm.
    • 1953, Maya Daren, The Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company 2004, p. 117:
      All magic is performed under his patronage, whether it be the medicinal, protective paquet, or the less benevolent wanga.
    • 2008, Stephan Palmié, Africas of the Americas, p. 364:
      Not all wanga contain the enslaved spirits of the dead, but they work best if they do.
    • 2011, Mark Juergensmeyer (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Global Religions, p. 549:
      Love charms are the most common type of wanga.

Anagrams

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wangô. Compare Old Saxon wanga (“cheek”), Old English wange, Old Norse vangi (“cheek, temple”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌰- (wagga-), Italian guancia (“cheek”).

Noun

wanga n

  1. cheek

Declension
Declension of wanga (neuter n-stem)
case singular plural
nominative wanga wangun
accusative wanga wangun
genitive wangen wangōno
dative wangen wangōm

Descendants

References
  1. Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition
  2. Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014
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