tanga

tanga (plural tangas)

1. Any of various former Asian coins, including: a coin of Portuguese India equal to 1/10th of a Rupee, a gold coin of India issued by various Muslim rulers, a silver coin of India, also issued by Muslim rulers, a former silver coin of Tibet.
   • 1810, Richard Haklvyt, Hakluyt's Collection of the Early Voyages, Travels, and DIscoveries of the English Nation- Volume 2, page 410:

     The larines are woorth by just value basaruchies 93 and 3 fourth parts, and 4 larines make a seraphine of siluer, which is 5 tangas of good money, and these also haue serafagion of 6, 7, 8, 10, vntil 16, by the 100, for when the ships depart for the North, to say, for Chaul, Diu, Cambaia, or Bassaim, all cary of the same, because it is money more currant then any other.

   • 1841, The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, page 136:

     The first and largest item is, the purchase of a wife, 25 rupees. Culinary and other utensils.--Bedding, 6 rupees; antimony for the lady's eyes, 3 tangas : an iron boiler, 2 rupees; a wooden bowl and spoons, 3 tangas; ....

   • 1875, Report of a Mission to Yarkund in 1873, under command of Sir T[homas] D. Forsyth, page 73:

     The prices range from 120 tangas = Rupees 25 to 400 tangas = Rupees 80.

   • 1996, Jonathan L. Lee, The "Ancient Supremacy":, →ISBN:

     Three-sevenths, or 300,000 tangas (100,000 Kabul rupees) were remitted to the Amir as tribute, whilst the remaining sum, 400,000 tangas (Rs. 133,333), was retained by the wali for his own expenses.

   • 2003, Ahmad Hasan Dani & Vadim Mikhaĭlovich Masson, History of Civilizations of Central Asia, →ISBN:

     The Samarkand tangas were initially 916 carats, and then rose to 960 carats. Lower-carat tangas were issued in Balkh (875 carats, 916 carats) and in Tashkent. Nevertheless, even the tangas issued under Iskandar Khan are referred to in documentary sources as 'pure'.

tanga (plural tangas)

1. A bikini bottom composed of two triangular panels connected by strings at the side

• ganta

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /ˈtaŋa/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ta‧nga

tanga

1. a scorpion

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /taˈŋaʔ/
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Hyphenation: ta‧nga

tanga

1. bumbling
2. careless; thoughtless
3. slow; of reduced intellectual capacity; not quick to comprehend
4. absent-minded

tanga

1. to bumble
2. to be careless
3. to be slow to comprehend
4. to be absent-minded

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:tanga.

tanga

1. to desire something, to crave.

From Spanish tanga.

• IPA^(key): /tɑ̃.ɡa/

tanga m (plural tangas)

1. G-string, thong (underwear)

• “tanga” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• ganta

tánga

1. cockroach

tangâ

1. to raise one's eyes

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒŋɡɒ]
• Hyphenation: tan‧ga

tanga (plural tangák)

1. G-string, thong, tanga, posing pouch

• tangabugyi

tanga

1. indefinite accusative singular of tangi
2. indefinite dative singular of tangi
3. indefinite genitive singular of tangi
4. indefinite accusative plural of tangi
5. indefinite genitive plural of tangi

tanga

1. inflection of tangere:
   1. first-person singular present subjunctive
   2. second-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular present subjunctive
   4. third-person singular imperative

tanga m (invariable)

1. G-string

tanga class 5 (plural matanga)

1. sail

tanga

1. ant

• tangen

tanga m or f

1. definite feminine singular of tang

• Hyphenation: tan‧ga

tanga f (plural tangas)

1. loincloth (garment that covers the crotch)
2. a very small bikini

tanga

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of tangar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of tangar

From a Tupian language.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtanɡa/, [ˈt̪ãŋɡa]
• Hyphenation: tan‧ga

tanga m (plural tangas)

1. G-string, thong

• “tanga” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

• IPA^(key): /ta.ˈŋa/

tangá

1. gullible
2. idiotic
3. (usually derogatory, vulgar) stupid; foolish

   Mukha kang tanga!

   You look foolish!

• ulaga
• walang isip

• katangahan
• (gay slang): shunga

tanga

1. an idiot
2. (usually derogatory, vulgar) a stupid person; a fool

   Hoy, tanga!

   Hey, fool!

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑŋɡɑ/

tanga (definite accusative tangayı, plural tangalar)

1. thong

-tanga (infinitive okutanga)

1. to study
2. to read