Definitions for donga

donga don·ga

Spelling: [dong-guh, dawng-guh]
IPA: /ˈdɒŋ gə, ˈdɔŋ gə/

Donga is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in donga (adgno).

Definitions for donga

noun

  1. (in an ice shelf) a small ravine with steep sides.
  2. (in South Africa) an eroded ravine; a dry watercourse.

Origin of donga

1875-80; Nguni (compare Zulu u(lu)donga); perhaps directly donga

Examples for donga

There were only five or six of them, and they waited in a donga for reinforcements.

After a while one of the men wounded a buck, and they both rode into the donga after it.

I rode back to the donga, and deliberated on the course to take.

Then suddenly the retiring Riflemen sprang up and ran for shelter in our donga.

Mr. Quatermain has just said that the donga was filled by a roaring torrent.

They also took refuge in the donga, and waited for better times.

Just by the ambulance waggon he disappeared in a donga leading to the valley.

Then he remembered that in his eagerness to get out he had left his knob-kerrie in the donga.

Thirty yards or so from this, and in the donga, lay the corpse of the Prince Imperial.

The gallant fellow managed to crawl to the group of castaways in the donga.

Word Value for donga
Scrable

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Words with friends

9

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