Togolese
Syllables: To·go·leseUK/ˌtəʊ.ɡəˈliːz//ˌtoʊ.ɡəˈliz/
Togolese adjective: of, from, or pertaining to Togo or its people.
Adjective
Togolese (not comparable)
- Of, from, or pertaining to Togo or its people.
Noun
Togolese (plural Togolese)
- A person from Togo or of Togolese descent.
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Togolese meaning in Bengali and Tagalog
Togolese in Bengali
- টোগান
Togolese in Tagalog
- Of, from, or pertaining to Togo or its people
- Togoles
Forms of Togolese
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Origin of Togolese
From French togolais, equivalent to Togo + -ese. The -l-, also present in Congolese and its French etymon congolais, was added in French to break up the sequence of -o + -ais; it is not present in words formed from -o + -ese in English, e.g. Faroese or Chicagoese.
Phrases with Togolese
Words that rhyme with Togolese
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- wheeze
- Cantonese
- chemise
- miner's disease
- trapeze
- Congolese
- dees
- disease
- displease
- frieze
- Japanese
- Keyes
- leese
- overseas
- pease
- please
- Portuguese
- sneeze
- tweeze
- appease
- bes
- bez
- blue cheese
- botanese
- Burmese
- expertise
- fries
- greeze
- Guyanese
- he's
- Javanese
- keys
- legalese
- Louise
- Maltese
- Ningbonese
- octopodes
- Pekingese
- Shanghainese
- she's
- Sinhalese
- Socrates
- tees
- Versaillese
- Viennese
- Vietnamese
- a little bit of bread and no cheese
- academese
Questions about Togolese
- What does Togolese mean?
- Togolese means of, from, or pertaining to Togo or its people.
- What is Togolese in Bengali?
- Togolese in Bengali is টোগান. See Togolese meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is Togolese?
- Togolese can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce Togolese?
- Togolese is pronounced /ˌtəʊ.ɡəˈliːz/ (UK).
Words near Togolese in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Togolese (page history and authors); Togolese (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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