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n. (cx musical instrument English) A simple wooden harp or zither used in central and eastern Africa.
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, also known as , was a school of Japanese painting which flourished in the late Edo period among artists who considered themselves literati, or intellectuals. While each of these artists was, almost by definition, unique and independent, they all shared an admiration for traditional Chinese culture. Their paintings, usually in monochrome black ink, sometimes with light color, and nearly always depicting Chinese landscapes or similar subjects, were patterned after Chinese literati painting, called wenrenhua (文人画) in Chinese.
Nanga may be:
- Nanga (Japanese painting)
- Nanga Brook, Western Australia
- Nanga (instrument), an Egyptian musical instrument
- In Pakistan, a subcaste of the Sial (tribe)
- N'anga, name of African traditional healer in Zimbabwe
Usage examples of "nanga".
Afterward I spoke with enthusiasm of this brilliant spectacle to Nanga Parbat, that soured and dissolute Eden-born Scion of the First Blood whose bad heart banishment from the Presence long ago filled with malice and hate and envy, and he smiled a vinegar smile and said with scorn, "Pah!
I make out the perfect peak that is Nanga Parbat—Gary, Paul, and I climbed that six years ago—and closer, the Gasherbrums.
It destroys men, not with the noble counterstrokes of an Eigerwand or a Nanga Parbat, but by eroding a man's nerve and body until he is a staggering, whimpering maniac.
Everest, goddess mother of the snows, Nanda Devi, K2, Nanga Parbat, Kanchenjunga.