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Tenga

🇧🇫 Burkina Faso Slang
Added Aug 06, 2025 · 3 definitions
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Tenga definition 1

Tenga (Land/earth - Mooré)

"Burkina tenga wusgo! (Burkina land is good!)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Aug 06, 2025
DEFINITION 2

Tenga definition 2

Tenga (Earth/land)

"Le tenga est sacré! (The earth is sacred!)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Aug 06, 2025
DEFINITION 3

Tenga definition 3

Tenga dafa am xaalis (Tenga has money - someone wealthy)

"Ki tenga la, du liggéey (He's wealthy, doesn't work)"
by Khulekani Dladla Elder · Aug 10, 2025

Word Details

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🇧🇫 Burkina Faso
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August 2025

↻ Similar Words

Tenga 🇬🇲 Gambia

Tenga dafa am xaalis (Tenga has money - someone wealthy)

"Ki tenga la, du liggéey (He's wealthy, doesn't work)"
Tena 🇪🇹 Ethiopia

ጤና/ጤና (Health)

"Tena yistilign (May He give you health)"

🇧🇫 About Burkina Faso Slang

Burkina Faso slang captures the everyday language, street expressions, and cultural vocabulary of its people.

KASINARY has 1733 Burkina Faso slang words collected from native speakers.

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This word is also used in 1 other country, sometimes with a different meaning.

Tenga 🇬🇲 Gambia

Tenga dafa am xaalis (Tenga has money - someone wealthy)

🇧🇫 More Burkina Faso Slang

Racli Racli (Ugly girl - offensive) Maracana Maracana (Neighborhood football) Bala Bala (So/then - Mooré) On fait comment? On fait comment? (How do we do it?) Tʋʋma n mi ligdi Tʋʋma n mi ligdi (Work brings money) Karité Karité (Shea butter)
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