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tonga
/ˈtɑŋ.ɡə/
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What does tonga mean?
noun
- A light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage used for transportation in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
- A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum.
proper noun
- A country and archipelago of Polynesia in Oceania. Official name: Kingdom of Tonga. Capital and largest city: Nuku'alofa.
More meanings (5)
proper noun
- 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.
- A barangay of Balud, Masbate, Philippines.
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IPA pronunciation
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In addition, the US has diplomatic relations with 6 nations that are not in the UN - Holy See, Kiribati, Nauru, Switzerland, Tonga, and Tuvalu.
The chief of the village of Caini, who was a tall and dignified Tonga man, could be approached only through an interpreter and talking man.
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He was lifted tenderly into the tonga--how thankful we now were to have it with us!--and Spooner at once set off with him to camp and the doctor.
In the Pacific the Fijian’s beard is “profuse and bushy, and is his greatest pride”; whilst the inhabitants of the adjacent archipelagoes of Tonga and Samoa are “beardless, and abhor a rough chin.”