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, 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, 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, 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, Quercus Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     The kangas allow me the bottles for my ships.

   • 2013, Jonathan Asser, David Mackenzie, Starred Up‎, 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, 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 fry

From Proto-Bantu *-kánga.

-kángá (infinitive kukángá)

1. to fry

• khanga

From Proto-Bantu *nkángà.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑ.ᵑɡɑ/

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kanga (n class, plural kanga)

1. kanga (garment)
2. guinea fowl
   • 2005, Masomo ya Msingi 8‎, →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