# wanga
## English
### Alternative forms

* ouanga

### Noun

wanga (plural wangas or wanga)
* (voodoo) A magic spell or charm.
** 1953, Maya Daren, The Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 117:All magic is performed under his patronage, whether it be the medicinal, protective paquet, or the less benevolent wanga.
** 2008, Stephan Palmié, Africas of the Americas, page 364:Not all wanga contain the enslaved spirits of the dead, but they work best if they do.
** 2011, Mark Juergensmeyer, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Global Religions, page 549:Love charms are the most common type of wanga.

#### Related terms

* wangateur

### Anagrams

* Gnawa

## Old Dutch
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *wangā, from Proto-Germanic *wangô.

### Noun

wanga f
* jaw
* cheek

#### Descendants

* Middle Dutch: wange
** Dutch: wang

#### References

* “wanga”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

## Old English
### Noun

wanga
* genitive plural of wang

## Old High German
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wangô. Compare Old Saxon wanga (“cheek”), Old English wange, Old Norse vangi (“cheek, temple”), Gothic *𐍅𐌰𐌲𐌲𐍉 (*waggō), Italian guancia (“cheek”).

### Noun

wanga n
* cheek

#### Descendants

* German: Wange

#### References

* Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition
* Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

wanga class XI (no plural)
* starch
    vyakula vya wanga ― carbohydrates

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Bantu *-bàdanga, repetitive derivation of Proto-Bantu *-bàda (“to count”).

#### Verb

-wanga (infinitive kuwanga)
* to count, to calculate

##### Conjugation

Conjugation of -wanga :
| Positive present | -nawanga |
| Subjunctive | -wange |
| Negative | -wangi |
| Imperative singular | wanga |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kuwanga |
| Negative | kutowanga |
Imperatives :
| Singular | wanga |
| Plural | wangeni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | huwanga |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -liwanga |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kuwanga |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tawanga |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tawanga |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -siwange |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngewanga |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singewanga |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngaliwanga |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singaliwanga |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -mewanga |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshawanga |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -jawanga |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kiwanga |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipowanga |
| Consecutive | kawanga / positive subject concord + -kawanga |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kawange |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

-wanga (infinitive kuwanga)
* to ache in pain

### Etymology 4
#### Verb

-wanga (infinitive kuwanga)
* to do magic / witchcraft