noun
- plural of donga: a steep-sided gully or ravine formed by water erosion
Usage: South African; Australian
Examples
- The heavy rains carved deep dongas across the farmland.
- Cattle often get trapped in the steep dongas during floods.
- The erosion created several dongas that made farming difficult.
- Workers built bridges over the dongas to connect the fields.
- The dongas filled with water after the storm.
- Vegetation was planted to prevent new dongas from forming.