tonga
see also: Tonga
Noun

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.
Noun

tonga (uncountable)

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

Tonga
Pronunciation
  • (British, Aus, New Zealand) IPA: /ˈtɒŋ.ə/, /ˈtɒŋ.ɡə/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈtɑŋ.ɡə/, /ˈtɔŋ.ɡə/
Proper noun
  1. A country in Oceania, official=Kingdom of Tonga.
Translations Proper noun
  1. A language spoken in Malawi.
Proper noun
  1. A language spoken in Mozambique.
Proper noun
  1. A language spoken in Zambia.



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