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kangha

kangha is the alternative spelling of kanga.

Meaning of kanga

Noun (1)

kanga (plural kangas)

  1. (Sikhism) A comb, required to be worn at all times by Sikhs, one of the five Ks.

Noun (2)

kanga (plural kangas)

  1. A colourful printed cotton garment worn by women in East Africa.

Noun (3)

kanga (plural kangas)

  1. (slang) A prison warder.
    • There are some 32 different terms for prison officers, from the humorously affectionate kanga(rhyming slang:kangaroo = screw) and the variants Scooby-Doo and Dr. Who via the mildly confrontational German (as if still the enemy over 50 years after World War II!) to the outright abuse of shit-parcel.1996, Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, Waterside Press, →ISBN

Forms of kangha

pluralkanghas

Questions about kangha

What is kangha the alternative spelling of?
Kangha is the alternative spelling of kanga.

Words near kangha in the dictionary

  1. kangeroos
  2. kangers
  3. Kangeyam
  4. Kangeyams
  5. Kanggye
  6. kangha
  7. kanghas
  8. kanghou
  9. Kanghui
  10. Kangiara
  11. kanging

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kangha (page history and authors); kanga (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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