Definizione monolingua

panga

panga (plural pangas)

1. (East Africa, South Africa) A large broad-bladed knife.
   • 1967, Ngugi wa Thiongo, A Grain of Wheat, EAEP 2008, p. 77:

     She turned to the small basket she was carrying and took out a panga.

   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 690:

     I pleaded with them to lay down their arms, to take each others hands in peace: ‘Take your guns, your knives and your pangas, and throw them into the sea!’

Definizione dizionario panga

Altri significati:

Any of various edible freshwater fish of the genus Pangasius, native to southeast Asia, especially the iridescent shark, Pangasius hypophthalmus.

(East Africa, South African) A large broad-bladed knife.