donga
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Afrikaans donga, borrowed from Zulu ū́dongá, from Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀dòngà.
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Noun
donga (plural dongas)Category:English lemmas#DONGACategory:English nouns#DONGACategory:English countable nouns#DONGACategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DONGACategory:Pages with entries#DONGACategory:Pages with 5 entries#DONGA
- (South AfricaCategory:South African English#DONGA) A usually dry, eroded watercourse running only in times of heavy rain.
- 1900, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Halt at Bloemfontein”, in The Great Boer War, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 349:
- Major Pack-Beresford and other officers were shot down, and every unhorsed man remained necessarily as a prisoner under the very muzzles of the riflemen in the donga.Category:English terms with quotations#DONGA
- 1901, Ernest William Hornung, “The Knees of the Gods”, in Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman, Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 284:
- There were trenches for us men, but no place of safety for our horses nearer than this long and narrow donga which ran from within our lines towards those of the Boers.Category:English terms with quotations#DONGA
- 1948, Henry Vollam Morton, In Search of South Africa, Methuen, page 168:
- Thousands of miserable cattle and goats roamed everywhere making tracks that would someday form cracks which successive rains would open into gullies and dongas.Category:English terms with quotations#DONGA
- 1999, JM Coetzee, Disgrace, Vintage, published 2000, page 98:
- Count yourself lucky not to be a prisoner in the car at this moment, speeding away, or at the bottom of a donga with a bullet in your head.Category:English terms with quotations#DONGA
Translations
References
- Jean Bradford, A Dictionary of South African English, Oxford (1978).
Etymology 2
UnknownCategory:English terms with unknown etymologies#DONGA; probably connected in some way with Etymology 1.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
donga (plural dongas)Category:English lemmas#DONGACategory:English nouns#DONGACategory:English countable nouns#DONGACategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DONGACategory:Pages with entries#DONGACategory:Pages with 5 entries#DONGA
- (AustraliaCategory:Australian English#DONGA) A transportable building providing accommodation for one person, often used on remote work sites or as tourist accommodation.
- 2004, Susie Ashworth, Rebecca Turner, Simone Egger, Western Australia, Lonely Planet, page 152:
- Menzies Hotel ([Ph] 9024 2043; 22 Shenton St; s/d $48/65, donga $75) has old-style hotel rooms as well as - for that real goldfields experience - dongas (temporary miner′s abode, usually made from corrugated iron), and also serves all meals.Category:English terms with quotations#DONGA
- 2004, James Woodford, The Dog Fence, page 225:
- He not only expects his fence to be perfect, he also expects his dongas to be the best workman′s huts in Australia, and that is what they are.Category:English terms with quotations#DONGA
- 2009, David Marr, The Ibdian Ocean Solution, Robyn Davidson (editor), The Best Australian Essays 2009, page 118,
- Workers building roads in the bush sleep in dongas like these and are well paid for their discomfort.
Usage notes
- Usually used in outback Australia, especially the northwest.
Etymology 3
Noun
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- Alternative spelling of donger (“penis”).
References
- ↑ Emilia Terzon (2016), “Origin of the word donga 'a bit of a mystery' to Australian linguists”, in ABC News (Australia)
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Etymology
From ZuluCategory:Afrikaans terms borrowed from Zulu#DONGACategory:Afrikaans terms derived from Zulu#DONGA udonga.
Noun
donga (plural dongas)Category:Afrikaans lemmas#DONGACategory:Afrikaans nouns#DONGACategory:Afrikaans entries with incorrect language header#DONGACategory:Pages with entries#DONGACategory:Pages with 5 entries#DONGA
Descendants
Garo
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Category:Requests for etymologies in Garo entries#DONGA
Verb
dongaCategory:Garo lemmas#DONGACategory:Garo verbs#DONGACategory:Garo entries with incorrect language header#DONGACategory:Pages with entries#DONGACategory:Pages with 5 entries#DONGA (intransitive)
- there is, there are
- mandi hilhil donga
- there are many people
- to have, belong, be at, reside, dwell
- be married to
- anga jikko dongjok
- I have married a wife
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from SlavicCategory:Hungarian terms borrowed from Slavic languages#DONGACategory:Hungarian terms derived from Slavic languages#DONGA, perhaps from South SlavicCategory:Hungarian terms borrowed from South Slavic languages#DONGACategory:Hungarian terms derived from South Slavic languages#DONGA. Ultimately from Proto-SlavicCategory:Hungarian terms derived from Proto-Slavic#DONGA *dǫga. Compare Bulgarian дъга (dǎga, “arc; stave; rainbow”), Serbo-Croatian ду́га / dúga (“stave; rainbow”), Slovene doga (“stave”), Slovak dúha (“stave; rainbow”). First attested in 1233.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈdoŋɡɒ]Category:Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation#DONGA
- Hyphenation: don‧ga
- Rhymes: -ɡɒCategory:Rhymes:Hungarian/ɡɒ#DONGACategory:Rhymes:Hungarian/ɡɒ/2 syllables#DONGA
Noun
donga (plural dongák)Category:Hungarian lemmas#DONGACategory:Hungarian nouns#DONGACategory:Hungarian entries with incorrect language header#DONGACategory:Pages with entries#DONGACategory:Pages with 5 entries#DONGA
- stave (a slightly bent wooden board that forms the sides and bottom of a larger wooden vessel (e.g. barrel, tub, vat))
- (by extension, in compound words) barrel, barrellike, arc-shaped
- dongaboltozat ― barrel vaultCategory:Hungarian terms with collocations#DONGA
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | donga | dongák |
| accusative | dongát | dongákat |
| dative | dongának | dongáknak |
| instrumental | dongával | dongákkal |
| causal-final | dongáért | dongákért |
| translative | dongává | dongákká |
| terminative | dongáig | dongákig |
| essive-formal | dongaként | dongákként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | dongában | dongákban |
| superessive | dongán | dongákon |
| adessive | dongánál | dongáknál |
| illative | dongába | dongákba |
| sublative | dongára | dongákra |
| allative | dongához | dongákhoz |
| elative | dongából | dongákból |
| delative | dongáról | dongákról |
| ablative | dongától | dongáktól |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
dongáé | dongáké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
dongáéi | dongákéi |
Derived terms
References
- ↑ donga in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
- ↑ donga in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2025.
Further reading
- donga in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
- donga in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).
Japanese
Romanization
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