tonga

IPA: tˈɑngʌ

Root Word: Tonga

A country and archipelago in Polynesia in Oceania. Official name: Kingdom of Tonga. Capital and largest city: Nuku'alofa.
A Bantu language, in the Nyasa branch, spoken in Malawi.
A Bantu language, in the Botatwe branch, spoken in Zambia and Zimbabwe.
A Bantu language spoken in Mozambique.
A surname.
(India) A light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage used for transportation in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
(medicine) A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum.

Examples of "tonga" in Sentences

She could see her husband hunching to release himself from the shelter of the tonga, too tall for its low bonnet.
They thought Congress will be the horse and they will be the rider but we showed them that this 'tonga' can run on its own.
"tonga," its pair of wheels and its white awning rolling and jolting behind two good horses, passes long lines of bullock-carts.
"Even a tonga will be a relief after three days of this, Doggott," he observed, surrendering himself to the ministrations of the servant.
I could image the sea reefs and gold fish swimming all set to the tone of the music of "A tonga da mironga do kabuletê" translation: "Anywhere Faraway".
I could image the sea reefs and gold fish swimming all set to the tone of the music of "A tonga da mironga do kabuletÃª" translation: "Anywhere Faraway".
An occasional tonga clattered by, the driver and his passenger perched atop the two-wheeled wooden cart pulled by a donkey daring enough to brave the traffic.