Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. (context Australia English) A transportable building with single rooms, often used on remote work sites or as tourist accommodation. Etymology 2
n. (context South African English English) A usually dry, eroded watercourse running only in times of heavy rain.
Wikipedia
Donga may refer to:
- Donga Department, a department of Benin
- Donga, Nigeria, a town and Local Government Area in Taraba State, Nigeria
- Donga River, a river of Nigeria and Cameroon
- Donga Range, a mountain range in Bhutan, Lower Himalayan Range
- Donga (film), a 1985 Telugu-Indian film starring Chiranjeevi
- The Dong-a Ilbo or DongA, a newspaper in South Korea
- Donga (musician), recorder of Brazilian samba
- Donga, a form of stick-fighting pioneered by the Nilotic Surma people
- Donga, a portable building used for temporary accommodation in Australia
Donga ( English: Burglar) is a 1985 Telugu action film, produced by T. Trivikram Rao on banner and directed by A. Kodandarami Reddy. Starring Chiranjeevi, Radha in the lead roles and music composed by Chakravarthy.
Usage examples of "donga".
Across the veld, some miles from the waterworks, there runs a deep donga or watercourse--one of many, but the largest.
The Boers pushed the attack very rapidly, however, and were soon able with their superior numbers to send a raking fire down the donga, which made it a perfect death-trap.
The harried Boers moved a hundred miles north to Rustenburg, followed by Methuen, Fetherstonhaugh, Hamilton, Kekewich, and Allenby, who found the commandos of De la Rey and Kemp to be scattering in front of them and hiding in the kloofs and dongas, whence in the early days of September no less than two hundred were extracted.
This was some distance behind that other donga in which Long, Bullock, and their Devons and gunners were crouching.
However, the fact, humiliating and inexplicable, is that the guns were so left, that the whole force was withdrawn, and that not only the ten cannon, but also the handful of Devons, with their Colonel, and the Fusiliers were taken prisoners in the donga which had sheltered them all day.
These men were the gunners, the Devons, and the Scots Fusiliers, who were taken in the donga together with small bodies from the Connaughts, the Dublins, and other regiments who, having found some shelter, were unable to leave it, and clung on until the retirement of their regiments left them in a hopeless position.
Not only were the banks of the river fringed with his riflemen under excellent cover, but from these banks there extended on each side a number of dongas, which made admirable natural trenches.
Putting aside the question of responsibility, what happened on the morning of Sunday, February 18th, was that from every quarter an assault was urged across the level plains, to the north and to the south, upon the lines of desperate and invisible men who lay in the dongas and behind the banks of the river.
Smoke and flames from the dongas told that some of our shells had fallen among the wagons and their combustible stores.
When he gave it a run in an area of erosion and steep dongas on the outskirts of town, the silencer box fell off, but the rest held together.