English

Proper noun

Tonga

1. A country in Oceania. Official name: Kingdom of Tonga.

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Countries of the world

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Tonga

1. A language spoken in Malawi.

Etymology 3

Proper noun

Tonga

1. A language spoken in Mozambique.

Etymology 4

Proper noun

Tonga

1. A language spoken in Zambia.

Anagrams

• tango

Czech

Proper noun

Tonga

1. Tonga

Faroese

Etymology

From Tongan Tonga, from Samoan toga ‎(“southern”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʰɔŋka/

Proper noun

Tonga n

1. Tonga

Declension

Finnish

Proper noun

Tonga

1. Tonga

Declension

Anagrams

• tango, togan

German

Proper noun

Tonga n ‎(genitive Tongas)

1. Tonga

Derived terms

• Tongaer
• Tongaerin
• tongaisch

Italian

Proper noun

Tonga f

1. Tonga

Derived terms

• tongano

Anagrams

• tango

Latin

Proper noun

Tonga f ‎(genitive Tongae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Tonga

Inflection

First declension, with locative.

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Tonga

1. Tonga

Related terms

• tonganer
• tongansk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Tonga

1. Tonga

Related terms

• tongan, tonganar
• tongansk

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪ɔŋɡa/, rare: /ˈt̪ɔn̪ɡa/

Proper noun

Tonga n

1. Tonga

Derived terms

• Tongijczyk m, Tongijka f
• adjective: tongijski

Portuguese

Proper noun

Tonga f

1. Tonga (an archipelago and country of Oceania)

Spanish

Proper noun

Tonga ?

1. Tonga

Anagrams

• tango

Tongan

Etymology

From Samoan toga ‎(“southern”).

Proper noun

Tonga

1. Tonga

English

Alternative forms

• tanga

Noun

tonga ‎(plural tongas)

1. (India) A light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage used for transportation in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
   • 1890, Plain Tales from the Hills, Rudyard Kipling

     Coming up along the Cart-Road a tonga passed me, and my pony, tired with standing so long, set off at a canter.

Etymology 2

From Tonga

Noun

tonga ‎(uncountable)

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

Anagrams

• tango

Finnish

Proper noun

tonga

1. Tongan (language)

Declension

Anagrams

• tango, togan

Lojban

Etymology

In Lojbanized spelling.

• Chinese: iingau — 音高 (yīn gāo)
• English: ton — tone
• Hindi: tan — तान (tāna)
• Spanish: ton — tono
• Arabic: tanak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈton.ɡa/

Gismu

tonga ‎(rafsi tog or to'a)

1. tone; x1 is a tone/note of frequency/pitch x2 from source x3.

See also

• rilti
• zgike
• janbe
• siclu

Maori

Etymology

Common Malayo-Polynesian, compare Indonesian tengah

Noun

tonga

1. south

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tonga f

1. definite singular of tong

Portuguese

Noun

tonga m (uncountable)

1. Tongan (Austronesian language spoken in Tonga)

Synonyms

• tonganês

Rapa Nui

Noun

tonga

1. a kind of yam

Turkish

Etymology

Unknown.

Noun

tonga ‎(definite accusative }}}, plural }}})

1. (slang) cheating, trick