doonga India.
(ˈduːngə)
Also dunga.
[ad. Hind. dongā.]
A flat-bottomed dug-out with a square sail.
| 1905 Westm. Gaz. 3 Jan. 2/1 A line of stretchers was winding in and out past the dungas—all laden. 1922 Chambers's Jrnl. 759/2 There is the house-boat, the doonga—a species of long canoe, with a sloping rush roof.., in which you live. 1925 Ibid. 77/1 At Srinagar Durrant hired a large doonga-houseboat. |