FromProto-Bantu*nnyàngá. Cognate withMalawi Lomweenyanga.
nyanga class9 (pluralnyanga class10)
- horn
Borrowed fromMende (Sierra Leone)nyanga(“ostentation; showing off”).
nyanga (pluralnyangadem,quantifiednyanga)
- (uncountable)Pride
- (countable) Aproud person.
nyanga
- Towalkproudly andprovocatively.
- Richard Allsopp, editor (1996),Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica:University of the West Indies Press, published2003,→ISBN,page411
- Cassidy, Frederic Gomes, Le Page, Robert Brock, editors (2002),Dictionary of Jamaican English, 2nd edition, University of the West Indies Press,→ISBN, page326
Lala (South Africa)
[edit]nyangá
- moon
nyanga
- (demonstrative)this; this one
-nyanga?
- (transitive) tocure
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