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gonja

gonja noun: the plantain, especially when served fried.

Noun (1)

gonja (countable and uncountable, plural gonja)

  1. (Uganda) The plantain, especially when served fried.
    • “How much for the gonja?” I asked. “Three for a thousand shillings.” “Too much.” “Three gonja for seven hundred shillings,” a shorter boy in a brown shirt said. “I will take three.” I purchased gonja, water, and two muchomo.2011, Twesigye Jackson Kaguri, Susan Urbanek Linville, A School for My Village: A Promise to the Orphans of Nyaka
    • You are, however, more likely to find the roasted chicken and gonja on the left side, the presumption being that you missed these in the city. In that way, the prevalence of roast chicken and gonja on the left side on the outbound journey is also a cultural comment on the state of cooking in the...2018 May 2, Charles Onyango-Obbo, “Uganda’s roads, villages, and the sound of silence”, in Daily Monitor

Proper noun capitalized: Gonja

Gonja

  1. A former kingdom in northern Ghana.
  2. A North Guang language (which has several dialects) spoken by a few hundred thousand mostly ethnically-Gonja people in northern Ghana.

Noun (2) capitalized: Gonja

Gonja pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The people of the former kingdom of Gonja.

Forms of gonja

pluralgonja

Origin of gonja

Borrowed from Gonja Ngbanya.

Questions about gonja

What does gonja mean?
Gonja means the plantain, especially when served fried.
What part of speech is gonja?
Gonja can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of gonja?
The plural of gonja is gonja.

Words near gonja in the dictionary

  1. goniotomy
  2. gonite
  3. gonites
  4. gonitis
  5. gonivim
  6. gonja
  7. Gonjo
  8. gonk
  9. gonk out
  10. gonked
  11. gonked out

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