OriginFrom Portuguese tanga, from Kimbundu tanga or ntanga (“coarse cloth; loincloth”).
- historicalAny of various former Asian coins, including: a coin of Portuguese India worth one tenth of a rupee; a gold coin of India issued by various Muslim rulers; a silver coin of India, also issued by Muslim rulers; and a former silver coin of Tibet.
“The larines are woorth by just value basaruchies 93 and 3 fourth parts, and 4 larines make a seraphine of siluer, which is 5 tangas of good money, and these also haue serafagion of 6, 7, 8, 10, vntil ”
“The first and largest item is, the purchase of a wife, 25 rupees. Culinary and other utensils.--Bedding, 6 rupees; antimony for the lady's eyes, 3 tangas : an iron boiler, 2 rupees; a wooden bowl and ”
“The prices range from 120 tangas = Rupees 25 to 400 tangas = Rupees 80.”
- A pair of tanga briefs.
- A city and port, the capital of the Tanga Region, Tanzania.
Formstangas(plural)