kanga

From Punjabi ਕੰਘਾ (kaṅghā).

• kangha

kanga (plural kangas)

1. (Sikhism) A comb, required to be worn at all times by Sikhs, one of the five Ks.

From Swahili kanga.

kanga (plural kangas)

1. A colourful printed cotton garment worn by women in East Africa.

From kangaroo, rhyming slang for screw.

kanga (plural kangas)

1. (slang) A prison warder.
   • 1996, Angela Devlin, Prison Patter‎^[1], 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^[2], Waterside Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, 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^[3], Penguin UK, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     ‘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^[4], Quercus Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     The kangas allow me the bottles for my ships.

   • 2013, Jonathan Asser, David Mackenzie, Starred Up‎^[5], 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^[6], Aurora Metro Publications Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC:

     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.

• Kagan, kagan, nagak, ngaka

kanga

1. crab

• Moïse Adjèbè Aka, Émile Yédé N’guessan, Jonas N’guessan et Chantal Tresbarats, Syllabaire abidji, Abidjan, Les nouvelles éditions africaines, coll. « Je lis ma langue », 1984.

kanga

1. crab

kanga

1. crab

• IPA^(key): /kàᵑɡà/

kanga

1. ostrich

• 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.

• Hyphenation: ka‧nga

kanga

1. (pathology) leprosy

kanga

1. Rōmaji transcription of かんが

kanga

1. to pack
2. to close

kanga

1. to pack
2. to close

kanga

1. to pack
2. to close

kanga

1. to fry

From Proto-Eastern Polynesian *kaŋa (“put a curse on someone”).

kanga (passive kangaa or kangahia or kangaia)

1. to curse, to swear

kanga

1. cursing
2. swear word

• “kanga” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kaŋ, from Proto-Tupian *kaŋ.

Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní kã.

kanga (possessable)

1. bone (component of a skeleton)
   • 1618, Antônio de Araújo, chapter IX, in Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica [Catechism in the Brazilian Language], Livro Terceiro do Cathecismo, e summa da Doctrina Christam [… ] (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 62v:

     M. O atá yepé cerà y ij bà mocõya ita pigoâ coaráma rece?
     D. Oatá yepè.
     M. Marãpe ibiâ cerecou, ymondîca potà?
     D. Opaçama pupè yapitiũcequicequij etebo ycanga yeptâçába peabo oyo çuî.

     [M[estre]: O[gû]atá îepé serã i îybá mokõîa itapygûá soarama resé?
     D[iscípulo] O[gû]atá îepé.
     M[estre]: Marãpe ybŷá serekóû i mondyka potá?
     D[iscípulo]: Opá sama pupé i apytĩû sekyîsekyîetébo i kanga îepotasaba pe'abo o îosuí.]

     Master: Was his arm too short to reach the place where the nails would go?
     Disciple: It was.
     Master: What did they do, wanting to draw them closer?
     Disciple: With a whole rope they tied it, pulling it a lot and separating its bones from their joints.

2. frame (structural elements of a building or other constructed object)
   • 1622, anonymous author, “Madeira, ou madeiramento pa. casas ou de casas.”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 2 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 27; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:

     Ocanga.

     [Okanga.]

     House frame.

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kanga”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 216, column 1

From Proto-Bantu *-kánga.

-kángá (infinitive kukángá)

1. to fry

• khanga

From Proto-Bantu *nkángà.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑ.ᵑɡɑ/

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kanga class IX (plural kanga class X)

1. kanga (garment)
2. guinea fowl
   • 2005, Masomo ya Msingi 8‎^[7], →ISBN, page 21:

     Huyu kanga nitamla peke yangu.

     This guinea fowl will eat it alone.

• → English: kanga
• → Malagasy: akanga

• kànǹga

• IPA^(key): /kã̀.ɡā/

kànga

1. water well, a shallow well