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Tongan

/ˈtɒŋən/

Tongan noun: an Austronesian language of the Polynesian branch spoken in Tonga.

Noun

Tongan (countable and uncountable, plural Tongans)

  1. (uncountable) An Austronesian language of the Polynesian branch spoken in Tonga.
  2. (countable) A person from Tonga or of Tongan descent.

Adjective

Tongan (not comparable)

  1. Of, from, or pertaining to Tonga, the Tongan people or the Tongan language.

Tongan meaning in Bengali

Tongan in Bengali

টোঙ্গানি

Forms of Tongan

pluralTongans

Origin of Tongan

From Tonga + -an.

Words formed from Tongan

Phrases with Tongan

Questions about Tongan

What does Tongan mean?
Tongan means an Austronesian language of the Polynesian branch spoken in Tonga.
What is Tongan in Bengali?
Tongan in Bengali is টোঙ্গানি. See Tongan meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is Tongan?
Tongan can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce Tongan?
Tongan is pronounced /ˈtɒŋən/.
What is the plural of Tongan?
The plural of Tongan is Tongans.

Words near Tongan in the dictionary

  1. tonga bean
  2. tonga beans
  3. Tonga Trench
  4. Tongala
  5. Tongalese
  6. Tongan
  7. Tongan time
  8. Tonganah
  9. Tonganness
  10. Tonganoxie
  11. Tongans

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Tongan (page history and authors); Tongan (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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