kanga
See also: kānga and känga
English
Etymology 1
From Punjabi ਕੰਘਾ (kaṅghā).
Alternative forms
- kangha
Noun
kanga (plural kangas)
- (Sikhism) A comb, required to be worn at all times by Sikhs, one of the five Ks.
Etymology 2
From Swahili kanga.
Noun
kanga (plural kangas)
- A colourful printed cotton garment worn by women in East Africa.
Etymology 3
From kangaroo, rhyming slang for screw.
Noun
kanga (plural kangas)
- (slang) A prison warder.
- 1996, Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, Waterside Press, →ISBN:
- 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.
- 2002, Julian Broadhead, Laura Kerr, Prison Writing: A Collection of Fact, Fiction and Verse, Waterside Press, →ISBN, OCLC 1200830006, page 90:
- So we thought there'd been trouble over there, maybe all the kangas were getting into mufti.
- 2006 February 9, Kevin Lewis, Kaitlyn, Penguin UK, →ISBN, OCLC 1052115015:
- ‘Fucking loony bin more like. There's no one sick here, not physically anyway. Don't worry, you'll get used to it. It's the kangas you want to watch out for.‘
‘Kangas?’
‘Kangaroo. Screw.’
- 2010 February 4, Michael Arditti, The Enemy of the Good, Quercus Publishing, →ISBN, OCLC 782863884:
- The kangas allow me the bottles for my ships.
- 2013, Jonathan Asser, David Mackenzie, Starred Up, spoken by Neville Love (Ben Mendelsohn):
- They will f***ing dangle you, the kangas. [They'll] make it look like suicide.
- 2017 April 27, Kate Dunn, The Dragonfly, Aurora Metro Publications Ltd., →ISBN, OCLC 1004956124:
- Even the diversionary fracas on the far side of the room failed to divert him, although the kangas went racing across to deal with it — there was always some kind of a dust up going on.
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Anagrams
- Kagan, kagan, nagak, ngaka
Baoule
Noun
kanga
- crabe
Bongo
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kàᵑɡà/
Noun
kanga
- ostrich
References
- Moi, Daniel Rabbi and Mario Lau Babur Kuduku, Sister Mary Mangira Michael, Simon Hagimir John, Rapheal Zakenia Paul Mafoi, Nyoul Gulluma Kuduku. 2018. Bongo – English Dictionary. Juba, South Sudan. SIL-South Sudan.
Cebuano
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ka‧nga
Noun
kanga
- (pathology) leprosy
Japanese
Romanization
kanga
- Rōmaji transcription of かんが
Shona
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *-kánga.
Verb
-kángá (infinitive kukángá)
- fry
Swahili
FWOTD – 14 June 2020
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *nkángà.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɑ.ᵑɡɑ/
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun
kanga (n class, plural kanga)
- kanga (garment)
- guinea fowl
- 2005, Masomo ya Msingi 8, →ISBN, page 21:
- Huyu kanga nitamla peke yangu.
- This guinea fowl will eat it alone.
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Descendants
- → English: kanga
- → Malagasy: akanga
Yoruba
Alternative forms
- kànǹga
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kã̀.ɡā/
Noun
kànga
- water well, a shallow well
Derived terms
- kàngádẹ̀rọ (“borehole, electric well”)
- kànga ẹlẹ́rọ (“deepwell”)
- kànga ìgbàlódé (“deepwell”)