benga

benga (uncountable)

1. (music) A genre of Kenyan popular music in an urban style associated with stringed instrumentation.

• Bange, abeng, began

benga

1. to be deaf

• IPA^(key): /ˈbəŋa/ [ˈbɨː.ŋʌ] (“report”)
  • Rhymes: -əŋa
• IPA^(key): /bəˈŋa/ [bɨˈŋa] (“flower”)
  • Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: be‧nga

bë́nga

1. reporting, telling, relating, announcing, proclaiming

bëngá

1. flower, bloom, blossom

• Morice Vanoverbergh (1933) “benga”, in A Dictionary of Lepanto Igorot or Kankanay. As it is spoken at Bauco (Linguistische Anthropos-Bibliothek; XII)‎^[1], Mödling bei Wien, St. Gabriel, Österreich: Verlag der Internationalen Zeitschrift „Anthropos“, →OCLC, page 82

benga

1. to call

benga

1. to call

Unknown.

• Rhymes: -ẽɡɐ

benga f (plural bengas)

1. (Brazil, slang) penis

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis

• “benga”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

Borrowed from Romani beng (“devil”).

benga m (uncountable)

1. (slang) the devil

• IPA^(key): [ˈbe.ŋa]

benga

1. (intransitive) to throb

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh