Donga

Donga

Donga may refer to:

Contents

Places in Africa

Persons

  • Donga (musician) (pt/de), Ernesto dos Santos, the first recorder of Brazilian samba
  • Nick Gorshenin, co-founder of the Northern Beaches Running Sharks, Sydney (running out of water, never out of beer)

Telugu-language films

Donga (Telugu: దొంగ or Dongalu (Pleural Telugu: దొంగలు) in Telugu language means Thief. There are many pages related to it:

Other

  • Donga (ditch), a ditch formed by the erosion of soil (in South African English)
  • The Dong-a Ilbo, DongA, a major newspaper in South Korea
  • Donga, a form of stick fighting, among the Nilotic Surma people
  • Donga, (Australian English) A transportable building with single rooms, often used on remote work sites or as tourist accommodation

See also

  • Dongas, the Dongas Tribe of UK road protesters

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  • Donga — Basisdaten Hauptstadt: Djougou Kommunen: 4 …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Donga — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Donga es uno de los doce departamentos (départements) de Benín, situado en el oeste del país, en la frontera con Togo. Población y Territorio Tiene 10.691 kilómetros cuadrados de superficie y una población de 395.416 …   Wikipedia Español

  • Donga — Donga, 1) (Angola), Landstrich auf der Westküste Südafrikas; 2) das Land der Dinkas, zwischen den Schilluks u. den Quellen des westlichen (Weißen) Nilarmes; die Landschaft ist niedrig u. sumpfig, ernährt zahlreiche Rinderheerden, Elephanten,… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • donga — [däŋ′gə] n. [Afrik < Zulu udonga] in South Africa, a gully in a veld …   English World dictionary

  • Donga — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Donga est à la fois : un département du Bénin : Donga (Bénin) une zone de gouvernement local au Nigeria : Donga (LGA) une lutte… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • donga — /dong geuh, dawng geuh/, n. 1. (in an ice shelf) a small ravine with steep sides. 2. (in South Africa) an eroded ravine; a dry watercourse. [1875 80; < Nguni (cf. Zulu u(lu)donga); perh. directly < a pidginized form with loss of the class prefix …   Universalium

  • donga — UK [ˈdɒŋɡə] / US [ˈdɑŋɡə] noun [countable] Word forms donga : singular donga plural dongas South African a long narrow valley with steep sides, formed because the land has been damaged and the soil has gradually disappeared …   English dictionary

  • donga — noun /dɒːŋɡə,dɔŋɡə/ a) A transportable building with single rooms, often used on remote work sites or as tourist accommodation. There were trenches for us men, but no place of safety for our horses nearer than this long and narrow donga which ran …   Wiktionary

  • Donga — Admin ASC 1 Code Orig. name Donga Country and Admin Code BJ.13 BJ …   World countries Adminstrative division ASC I-II

  • donga — I. /ˈdɒŋə/ (say donguh), /ˈdɒŋgə / (say dongguh) noun 1. a shallow gully or dried out watercourse. 2. the donga, Colloquial the bush; the outback. {South African English: a gully formed by running water, from Zulu and Xhosa udonga; military use… …  

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