gonja

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noun

The plantain, especially when served fried.

OriginGonja Ngbanya →
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Meanings

gonja1

noungonja (countable and uncountable, plural gonja)
  1. UgandacountableuncountableThe plantain, especially when served fried.

    “How much for the gonja?” I asked. “Three for a thousand shillings.” “Too much.” “Three gonja for seven hundred shillings,” a shorter boy in a brown shirt said. “I will take three.” I purchased gonja, water, and two muchomo.

    2011, Twesigye Jackson Kaguri, Susan Urbanek Linville, A School for My Village: A Promise to the Orphans of Nyaka
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    You are, however, more likely to find the roasted chicken and gonja on the left side, the presumption being that you missed these in the city. In that way, the prevalence of roast chicken and gonja on the left side on the outbound journey is also a cultural comment on the state of cooking in the middle class urban kitchen.

    2018 May 2, Charles Onyango-Obbo, “Uganda’s roads, villages, and the sound of silence”, in Daily Monitor

Gonja2

proper noun
  1. A former kingdom in northern Ghana.
  2. A North Guang language (which has several dialects) spoken by a few hundred thousand mostly ethnically-Gonja people in northern Ghana.
nounGonja pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlyThe people of the former kingdom of Gonja.

Origin

  1. GonjaNgbanya
  2. EnglishGonja

Borrowed from Gonja Ngbanya.

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APA

gonja. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gonja

MLA

“gonja.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gonja. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gonja,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gonja.

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