Definition of "donga" [donga]

• A transportable building with single rooms, often used on remote work sites or as tourist accommodation. (noun)
• A usually dry, eroded watercourse running only in times of heavy rain. (noun)

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• "We were twelve miles before the main body, and we came to a house under a high bushed hill, with a nullah, which they call a donga, behind it, and an old sangar of piled stones, which they call a kraal, before it."
• "The descent to the spruit, which is often a short, steep pitch and is then called a donga, needs careful driving, and the ascent up the opposite bank is for a heavy waggon a matter of great difficulty."
• "About 1600 workers went on a week-long strike last month, angry about Woodside's plans to make workers from the Gap Ridge campsite at Karratha stay in a different 'donga' each work cycle."