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PRONUNCIATION OF TANGA IN PORTUGUESE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TANGA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
interjection
article
Tanga is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TANGA MEAN IN PORTUGUESE?

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Thong

Tanga

A thong is a narrow piece of fabric or leather that passes between the legs and is attached by a rope-like piece around the hip, or often above it, as shown in the illustrations, and is used as the underside of a bikini or as underwear. What is jokingly called a thong is a piece with the same functions but is characterized by the shape of the string located at the back of the piece, which gives it a tendency to slip between the buttocks like floss between the teeth. Dental floss was a Brazilian invention, in the 1980s, and preferred only by Brazilians, being rejected by women of other cultures. Although used for decades by dancers, the thong gained great popularity among women in South America, particularly in Brazil in the 1970s. In Brazil it was originally a swimsuit style in which the back was so narrow that it could disappear between the buttocks of the wearer. The "Y" thong is a blend of thong with tapa-sex that is widely used in Brazilian carnival. Uma tanga é um pedaço estreito de tecido ou couro que passa entre as pernas e é unido por um pedaço em forma de corda em volta do quadril, ou frequentemente acima dele, como se vê nas ilustrações, e é usado como a parte de baixo de um biquini ou como roupa de baixo. Já o que é chamado jocosamente de fio-dental, é uma peça com as mesmas funções mas que se caracteriza pela forma de corda situar-se na parte traseira da peça, o que lhe confere uma tendência de deslizar entre as nádegas como o fio dental entre os dentes. O fio dental foi uma invenção brasileiro, na década de 1980, e preferida somente pelas brasileiras, sendo rejeitada por mulheres de outras culturas. Embora tenha sido usado por décadas por dançarinas, a tanga ganhou grande popularidade nas mulheres da América do Sul, particularmente no Brasil na década de 1970. No Brasil era originalmente um estilo de roupa de banho no qual a parte traseira era tão estreita que poderia desaparecer entre as nádegas de quem a usasse. A tanga em "Y" é uma mistura de tanga com tapa-sexo que é muito utilizado no carnaval brasileiro.

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PORTUGUESE WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TANGA


anga
an·ga
banga
ban·ga
changa
chan·ga
charanga
cha·ran·ga
fanga
fan·ga
franga
fran·ga
galanga
ga·lan·ga
ganga
gan·ga
guarapiranga
gua·ra·pi·ran·ga
ibirapitanga
i·bi·ra·pi·tan·ga
itapitanga
i·ta·pi·tan·ga
manga
man·ga
maranga
ma·ran·ga
matanga
ma·tan·ga
nanga
nan·ga
panga
pan·ga
piranga
pi·ran·ga
pitanga
pi·tan·ga
sanga
san·ga
suranga
su·ran·ga

PORTUGUESE WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TANGA

taneco
tangado
tangalho
tanganéu
tanganhão
tanganheira
tanganheiro
tanganho
tanganim
tangapema
tangar
tangaracá
tangarana
tangarazinho
tanga
tangará-açu
tangarense
tangarra
tangavaíta
tangão

PORTUGUESE WORDS THAT END LIKE TANGA

baranga
camutanga
cananga
canga
capanga
caranga
guaricanga
ibipitanga
itapiranga
janga
losanga
meia-manga
miçanga
moranga
mubanga
muganga
poranga
sapiranga
saranga
zanga

Synonyms and antonyms of tanga in the Portuguese dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «TANGA» IN PORTUGUESE

The following Portuguese words have a similar or identical meaning as «tanga» and belong to the same grammatical category.
Portuguese synonyms of tanga

Translation of «tanga» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TANGA

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The translations of tanga from Portuguese to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tanga» in Portuguese.

Translator Portuguese - Chinese

腰部布
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Spanish

Tanga
570 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - English

Thong
510 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Hindi

कमर-कपड़ा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator Portuguese - Arabic

الخاصرة القماش
280 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Russian

набедренная повязка
278 millions of speakers

Portuguese

tanga
270 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Bengali

অন্তরীয়ক
260 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - French

pagne
220 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Malay

pinggang-kain
190 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - German

Lendenschurz
180 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Japanese

ロース布
130 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Korean

허리 천
85 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Javanese

loin-kain
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator Portuguese - Vietnamese

thăn-vải
80 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Tamil

விலாப்பகுதியிலுள்ள-துணி
75 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Marathi

थाँग
75 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Turkish

fileto-bez
70 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Italian

perizoma
65 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Polish

Schab-szmatki
50 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Ukrainian

Стрінги
40 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Romanian

Cotlet-pânză
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator Portuguese - Greek

περίζωμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator Portuguese - Afrikaans

lende-lap
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator Portuguese - Swedish

loin-duk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator Portuguese - Norwegian

loin klut
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tanga

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TANGA»

The term «tanga» is very widely used and occupies the 6.813 position in our list of most widely used terms in the Portuguese dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of tanga
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our Portuguese online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «tanga».

Examples of use in the Portuguese literature, quotes and news about tanga

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10 PORTUGUESE BOOKS RELATING TO «TANGA»

Discover the use of tanga in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tanga and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in Portuguese literature.
1
Your name shall be Tanga
'Your name shall be Tanga', she insists. In this disturbing novel about sexual abuse and violence, Calixthe Beyala voices the solidarity that unites women across racial, religious and class barriers.
Calixthe Beyala, Marjolijn De Jager, 1996
2
Challenging Nature: Local Knowledge, Agroscience, and Food ...
In Challenging Nature, Philip Porter examines eighteen farming communities to understand what the farmers there know about their environment and which historical and economic factors play into the lack of food security.
Philip W. Porter, 2006
3
Tanga: A Novel of Forbidden Love in an African Village
It seamlessly merges adventure, romance, and the psycho-thriller while deconstructing Joseph Conrad s Heart of Darkness, with David undergoing the Kurtz syndrome to a lesser degree, of course.
Eric Madeen, 2009
4
Tanzania
MV Barracuda Tanga to Pemba (usually Mon night, arriving Tues moming; departing from Pemba Sun 1 1 am; $1 5-25 including port tax; there's a shuttle bus from Chake Chake at 8am). MV Mapinduzi (Zanzibar Shipping Corporation).
Jens Finke, 2003
5
East Africa
%027 About 55km south of Tanga is the small and dilapidated Swahili outpost of Pangani. It rose from obscure beginnings as just one of many coastal dhow ports to become a terminus of the caravan route from Lake Tanganyika, a major ...
Mary Fitzpatrick, Tim Bewer, Matthew Firestone, 2009
6
New Scientist
The man who suggested using this configuration is Arturo Tanga, an Italian scientist working at Culham. Last year, Tanga suggested that he could coax JET into the H-mode using a magnetic separator. Nobody believed him, and his proposal ...
7
Cook Islands Maori Dictionary
No'o taetaevao, live wild. tanga, in the phrase ka tanga atu ei (ki), and now, on top of that. Ka tanga atu ei ki te 'apinga tei kitea ki tona 'are, kare i kitea e 'ea 'a tona 'openga. And now on top of it all, with that thing being found in his house, ...
Jasper Buse, Raututi Taringa, Bruce Biggs, 1995
8
Tanzania: With Zanzibar, Pemba and Mafia
Another factor in Tanga's unusually sedate atmosphere is that the real hub of commercial activity has shifted outside the city centre. The grid of streets that surround the bus station and market seem far more colourful and crowded, and they ...
Philip Briggs, 2009
9
Pottery of Marajo Island, Brazil: Transactions, APS
PERSONAL ORNAMENTS Type I. Tangos The natives of Portuguese possessions in both Asia and Africa refer to the piece of cloth used to cover the pubic area of the body as a "tanga." The word originally came from the price, in Asia, of a ...
Helen C. Palmatary, 2008
10
Tanzania
There's also a restaurant. Eating Tanga is the home of Tanga Fresh, which produces yogurt and milk that is sold throughout the region – ask locals to point out the way to the Tanga Fresh outlet, where you can get excellent fresh yogurt, milk ...
Mary Fitzpatrick, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TANGA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tanga is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Tanga Odoi summons Nakaseke NRM registrar over irregularities in …
Tanga Odoi, the chairperson of the NRM Electoral Commission, has asked the chief contestants for NRM parliamentary flagbearer for Nakaseke North ... «NTV Uganda, Oct 15»
2
"Agora o cozido já dá cancro? Isso é alta tanga!"
A OMS disse que comer carne processada causa cancro, mas nos restaurantes da lisboeta Rua dos Correeiros, conhecida pelo cozido à portuguesa, não ... «Observador, Oct 15»
3
Tanzania, Uganda Sign Tanga Oil Pipeline Agreement
Tanzania and Uganda have signed an agreement that paves the way for studies to explore the possibility of building a pipeline to the Tanzanian port of Tanga. «AllAfrica.com, Oct 15»
4
School's Hockey Development Programme Reaches Tanga
The ambitious schools' hockey development programme continues to spread in other parts of the country, with four schools in Tanga region joining. Tanga ... «AllAfrica.com, Oct 15»
5
Lavezzi usa tanga e provoca escândalo
O argentino Lavezzi foi fotografado com as calças pelo joelho e a usar tanga. As fotografias foram publicadas nas redes sociais e o escândalo foi imediato. «O Jogo, Sep 15»
6
ARM's Tanga clinker plant a strategic investment
When Pradeep Paunrana asked if I cared to visit his clinker Facility in Tanga, I, of course, said yes. I did not mention that the Satchus had lived in Tanga in the ... «The Star, Sep 15»
7
O “país de tanga”, nas palavras de Durão Barroso
A legislatura é marcada pelo que ficou conhecido como “o discurso do país de tanga” por Durão Barroso, sobre as dificuldades económicas em Portugal. «RTP, Sep 15»
8
Mudar um país de buracos, pântanos e tangas
Votar para que depois do pântano do início do novo século e da tanga apregoada por Durão Barroso, possamos agora abandonar o buraco onde caímos. «Público.pt, Aug 15»
9
Amelia Kyambadde clashes with Tanga Odoi over NRM nominations
Chairman of the NRM Electoral Commission Dr. Tanga Odoi accuses former NRM National Treasurer Amelia Kyambadde of influence peddling and using her ... «NTV Uganda, Aug 15»
10
Depois dos biquínis, homens desafiados a usar tanga
Primeiro os vestidos de noiva, depois os biquínis e agora as tangas. Os homens têm experimentado as roupas mais femininas e o resultado é sempre ... «Notícias ao Minuto, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Tanga [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-pt/tanga>. Apr 2024 ».
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