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Ga en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A member of a particular ethnic group in Ghana and Togo.
    • Among the Ga, the people who are indigenous to Ghana's capital, Accra, a woman is entitled to a live sheep on the delivery of her 10th child. The word for it is "nyongmato". […] Lots of very important people among the Gas can testify to this. Unfortunately, I have not met any woman who has actually got a live sheep for having given birth to 10 children. 2018 August 30, “Letter from Africa: Should Ghanaian women be limited to three babies?”, in BBC News:

Forms

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Ga Number=Plur lexicographic
Gas Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (1)

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Source: en.wiktionary, “Ga” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Ga en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. A Niger-Congo language spoken in Ghana and Togo.
Source: en.wiktionary, “Ga” (name), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.