matanga
French, noun/ma.tan.ɡa/
matanga is spelled M-A-T-A-N-G-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 91 million words in written French, the 298,135th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Matanga is a French masculine noun meaning “wake, vigil” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “veillée de deuil, veillée mortuaire, veillée funèbre”.
What does matanga mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewake, vigil
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. veillée de deuil, veillée mortuaire, veillée funèbre.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of matanga
- matangas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce matanga?
- /ma.tan.ɡa/
- \ma.tan.ɡa\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is matanga in French?
matanga appears about once in every 91 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).