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Tunga

Tunga proper noun: name of a river in South India, joins with Bhadra forming Tungabhadra.

Proper noun

Tunga

  1. Name of a river in South India, joins with Bhadra forming Tungabhadra.

Origin of Tunga

From Sanskrit तुङ्गा (tuṅgā, “Tunga”).

Questions about Tunga

What does Tunga mean?
Tunga means name of a river in South India, joins with Bhadra forming Tungabhadra.
What part of speech is Tunga?
Tunga is a proper noun.

Words near Tunga in the dictionary

  1. tung oil tree
  2. tung tree
  3. tung trees
  4. Tung-kuan
  5. tung-oil tree
  6. Tunga
  7. Tungabhadra
  8. Tungag
  9. Tungamah
  10. Tungan
  11. Tungani

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