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Definition of Tanga
1. Noun. 100 tanga equal 1 Tajikistani ruble.
2. Noun. A port city in northeastern Tanzania on the Indian Ocean.
Group relationships: Tanzania, United Republic Of Tanzania
Definition of Tanga
1. a former monetary unit of Tajikistan [n TANGA]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tanga
Literary usage of Tanga
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life of Frederick Courtenay Selous, D.S.O., Capt. 25th Royal Fusiliers by John Guille Millais (1919)
"He remained at tanga until December 2nd, until his force moved up to ...
Writing from tanga on November nth, 1916, to Chapman, he says:— " The war has now ..."
2. A Comparative Grammar of the South African Bantu Language: Comprising Those by J. Torrend (1891)
"La li ngu tanga-lo- ... There was once a woman who used never to go out by day,
but to go out afterwards at night. Her name at home (*) was tanga-lo- ..."
3. Poems of the Great War by John William Cunliffe (1916)
"MARCHING ON tanga ... on tanga, marching the parched plain Of wavering spear-grass
by Pangani river, England came to me — me who had always ta'en But never ..."
4. Poems of the Great War by John William Cunliffe (1916)
"MARCHING ON tanga MARCHING on tanga, marching the parched plain Of wavering
spear-grass by Pangani river, England came to me — me who had always ta'en But ..."
5. Metaphysical Inquiry Into Method, Objects, and Result of Ancient and Modern by Isaac Preston Cory (1833)
"... they worshipped an idol called tanga tanga, which, they said, was three in one.
From a comparison of all the preceding passages, we find, ..."
6. An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean by William Mariner, John Martin (1817)
"We have intimated just now that the particle co is not always used before the
words e'gi and tanga'ta, as in the above examples, and we shall now point out ..."
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