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tongas

tongas is the plural of tonga.

Meaning of tonga

Noun (1)

tonga (plural tongas)

  1. (India) A light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage used for transportation in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
    • Coming up along the Cart-Road a tonga passed me, and my pony, tired with standing so long, set off at a canter.1890, Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills

Noun (2)

tonga (uncountable)

  1. A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum.

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Proper noun (1) capitalized: Tongas

Tongas

  1. (plural) plural of Tonga

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Tongas

Tongas

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Tongass.

Questions about tongas

What is tongas the plural of?
Tongas is the plural of tonga.
What part of speech is tongas?
Tongas is a proper noun.

Words near tongas in the dictionary

  1. Tongaporutuan
  2. Tongareva
  3. Tongarevan
  4. Tongarevans
  5. Tongariro
  6. tongas
  7. Tongass
  8. Tongatapu
  9. tongawalla
  10. tongawallas
  11. Tongbai

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