either of two former coins of India, one gold and one silver, issued by various Muslim rulers.
a former coin of Portuguese India, equal to the 10th part of a rupee.
a former silver coin of Tibet of varying weight and fineness.
a triangular loincloth worn by indigenous peoples in tropical America
a type of very brief bikini
First recorded in 1590–1600, tanga is from the Hindi word taṅgā
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The Challaine is of tinne with the said armes, and 40 of these make a tanga of Goa good money, but not stamped in Malacca.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Hakluyt, Richard
Everything was put by except his knife, and this, drawn from his tanga, was now held tightly in his grasp.
From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Reid, Mayne
May not the dinár of red gold have been the gold mohr of those days, popularly known as the red tanga, which Ibn Batuta repeatedly tells us was equal to 2-1/2 dinárs of the west.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry
Loa means long, and tanga, a bag; or, as an adjective, freedom from restriction.
From Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by Turner, George
On Friday, Mohamed Ali Kibao, 69, was forced off a bus by suspected security agents while travelling from the country's biggest city, Dar es Salaam, to his hometown Tanga.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024
That sum includes about $3.5 billion to be spent constructing a heated pipeline linking oil fields in western Uganda to the Indian Ocean port of Tanga in Tanzania.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2022
James and Tanga Davis knew their son was a little different when, at 8, he started calling out plays while watching college football games.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2021
As late as Wednesday, she sent ‘greetings’ from Magufuli in a remarks to an audience in the coastal region of Tanga.
From Reuters ● Mar. 18, 2021
Korogwe is in the Usambara hills, on the north bank of the Pangani river, and is reached by railway from Tanga.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various
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