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Donga vs Donna - What's the difference?

donga | donna |

As nouns the difference between donga and donna

is that donga is a transportable building with single rooms, often used on remote work sites or as tourist accommodation while donna is a lady, especially a noblewoman; the title given to a lady in Italy.

As a proper noun Donna is

{{given name|female|from=Italian}}.

donga

English

(wikipedia donga)

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Australia) A transportable building with single rooms, often used on remote work sites or as tourist accommodation.
  • * 2004 , Susie Ashworth, Rebecca Turner, Simone Egger, Western Australia , Lonely Planet, page 152,
    • Menzies Hotel' ([Ph] 9024 2043; 22 Shenton St; s/d $48/65, '''donga''' $75) has old-style hotel rooms as well as - for that real goldfields experience - ' dongas (temporary miner?s abode, usually made from corrugated iron), and also serves all meals.
  • * 2004 , James Woodford, The Dog Fence , page 225,
    • He not only expects his fence to be perfect, he also expects his dongas to be the best workman?s huts in Australia, and that is what they are.
  • * 2009 , (editor), ''The Best Australian Essays 2009 , page 118,
    • Workers building roads in the bush sleep in dongas like these and are well paid for their discomfort.
    Usage notes
    * Usually used in outback Australia, especially the northwest.

    Etymology 2

    From the Nguni group of languages. A washed out ravine or gully.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (South African English) A usually dry, eroded watercourse running only in times of heavy rain.
  • * 1900 , , Volume 2, 2008 Easyread Large Bold Edition, page 14:
    • Major Pack-Beresford and other officers were shot down, and every unhorsed man remained necessarily as a prisoner under the very muzzles of the riflemen in the donga .
  • * 1901 , , Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 284:
    • There were trenches for us men, but no place of safety for our horses nearer than this long and narrow donga which ran from within our lines towards those of the Boers.
  • * 1948 , , In Search of South Africa , Methuen, page 168:
    • Thousands of miserable cattle and goats roamed everywhere making tracks that would someday form cracks which successive rains would open into gullies and dongas .

    References

    * Jean Bradford, A Dictionary of South African English , Oxford (1978).

    Anagrams

    * * English terms with multiple etymologies

    donna

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lady, especially a noblewoman; the title given to a lady in Italy.
  • * 1837 , Thomas Tod Stoddart, Angling reminiscences (page 65)
    • What are the songs of Italy, sung as they are by the donnas of the scenic board, but a replication of squalls and quavers, infinitely more annoying than the gibberish of crones
  • * 2005 , Burton D. Fisher, Mozart's Don Giovanni , page 22
    • In Don Giovanni's three female characters, the diverse spectrum of womanhood is rendered complete: the great opera seria character of the avenging Donna' Anna, the sentimental and spurned ' Donna Elvira, and the crafty but sympathetic peasant girl Zerlina.

    Synonyms

    * (lady) lady, madam, mistress, noblewoman

    Coordinate terms

    * (lady) don