tonga
see also: Tonga
Noun
Tonga
Pronunciation Proper noun
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see also: Tonga
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 2005, p. 13:
- When his tyre went flat, he leapt off and shouted for a tonga.
- 1890, Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills:
tonga (uncountable)
- (medicine) A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum.
Tonga
Pronunciation Proper noun
A country in Oceania, official=Kingdom of Tonga.
- A language spoken in Mozambique.
- A language spoken in Zambia.
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